Almost 80 per cent of Hongkongers have no idea where to obtain end-of-life care services, a think tank’s survey has found, highlighting the inadequate resources and education devoted to the city’s rapidly ageing population.Typically for terminally ill people who wish to stop receiving life-saving treatment if they are expected to die within the next six…
Aside from his wife, Raymond feels there are few people who can tolerate him.
Over the summer, Fran Xie agonised over whether it would be safe for her 10-year-old daughter to start school in Hong Kong as she had planned.The 38-year-old, who lives across the border in Guangzhou, used to visit the city every month but said the unrest had alerted her to the fact that “some people in…
The 56-year-old actor is rumored to be getting married.
C Kwan had secretly loved his wife for 20 years.
Jacqueline said she is back in Hong Kong to see her family.
Police in eastern China have detained five people on suspicion of carrying out a scam that aimed to convince people to part with their money in return for a share of trillions of US dollars that have been frozen since the defeated Nationalist forces fled the mainland at the end of the civil war.Officers found…
Hong Kong International Airport lost close to 1 million passengers in November, the steepest numerical drop in any single month since violent anti-government protests began in the city, official figures released on Sunday showed.In the worst drop in more than a decade, the airport handled 5.02 million passengers, some 969,000 fewer in November, a drop…
Hong Kong’s financial secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has visited the man who was set on fire by radical protesters last month, bringing the victim his handwritten card.Chan also gave encouraging words to the victim’s wife during Saturday’s low-key visit to the hospital where the victim is recovering, which was revealed in a message posted by…
China’s state broadcaster has dropped plans to show a live broadcast of Arsenal’s Sunday fixture against Manchester City after one of its star players attacked Beijing’s treatment of the Uygur minority.The decision to scrap the English Premier League fixture in favour of a pre-recorded game between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanders was made despite the…
At the epicentre of deadly protests in Assam, a red and white cloth has come to symbolise the struggle of the Indian state’s indigenous “sons of the soil” against a new citizenship law that they see as a dangerous threat to their unique culture.Traditionally worn by fishermen and peasants, millennials and others in the far-flung…
It’s perfect timing for Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s duty visit to Beijing, just days ahead of Macau’s 20th handover anniversary and just as China and the US finally struck a much-anticipated, though only partial, phase-one trade deal.This is significant because Hong Kong’s future – and Lam’s as well, in a sense – is…
South Korean superstar boy band BTS may have scooped nine awards – including the grand prize of Album of the Year – at the Mnet Asian Music Awards on December 4, but what really got the audience talking was band member Jin’s speech about the K-pop industry’s use of sajaegi , or chart manipulation. How…
Trouble returned to Hong Kong on Sunday as anti-government demonstrators staged citywide “Christmas shopping” protests in major malls, leading to the vandalism of outlets, scuffles with those who did not support their cause and a handful of arrests.Some restaurants were spray-painted and diners harassed. In one incident a woman had paint sprayed on her face…
“War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale … nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means,” the early-19th century Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once observed.“For political aims are the end and war is the means, and the means can never be conceived without the end.” The…
“War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale … nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means,” the early-19th century Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once observed.“For political aims are the end and war is the means, and the means can never be conceived without the end.” The…
A power blackout of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel’s auto toll system led to long queues for motorists at the Hong Kong crossing on Sunday.The shutdown, which lasted at least two hours, was caused by an electricity supply failure, the Transport Department said shortly after 1pm.The source of the electricity problem at the tunnel, which connects Hung…
Chinese airlines have largely stopped hiring foreign pilots for Boeing’s 737 MAX, nine months after two crashes led to the grounding of the bestselling model, according to recruitment agencies.Carriers in China’s booming aviation market had been among the most enthusiastic buyers of the plane, accounting for 20 per cent of a global fleet that now…
Chinese airlines have largely stopped hiring foreign pilots for Boeing’s 737 MAX, nine months after two crashes led to the grounding of the bestselling model, according to recruitment agencies.Carriers in China’s booming aviation market had been among the most enthusiastic buyers of the plane, accounting for 20 per cent of a global fleet that now…
Four people were killed and 14 remain trapped after a coal mine in southwest China flooded on Saturday afternoon, state media reported on Sunday.The incident happened at about 3.30pm local time at a mine in the city of Yibin, Sichuan province, when 347 people were working underground, broadcaster China Central Television said.As of Sunday morning,…
Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh was crowned as Miss World 2019 and said she wanted to use her title to work for “sustainable change” for women and their children.Asked about the value of beauty contests in today’s world of MeToo# and the drive for equality and respect for women, the 23-year-old graduate of Florida State University said…
Virtually every time she finds herself enjoying the view or sampling local cuisine in one of Japan’s many picturesque backwaters, Evelyn Teplass-Mugii asks herself why there is not another foreigner in sight. All too often, she says, the tourists are following the well-worn “Golden Route” which links the bright lights of Tokyo and Osaka, with…
Singapore has ordered an opposition party to correct Facebook and website posts under a controversial law against misinformation, ahead of elections expected within months.The Facebook post from December 2 by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) claimed many Singaporeans had been displaced from white-collar jobs by foreign employees. Authorities said this is false.“These false and misleading…
Singapore has ordered an opposition party to correct Facebook and website posts under a controversial law against misinformation, ahead of elections expected within months.The Facebook post from December 2 by the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) claimed many Singaporeans had been displaced from white-collar jobs by foreign employees. Authorities said this is false.“These false and misleading…
China said on Sunday it will not impose new tariffs on imports of American products, but said the ongoing negotiations between the two countries must proceed on the basis of equality and respect.The announcement came after an interim agreement was reached on Friday to prevent a further escalation of the trade war, which has been…
Joyce Chan, 28, was a human resources manager for the Hong Kong office of a mainland e-commerce company, when she took a day off to take part in an anti-government protest in June.Soon, her boss began questioning her, asking about her political stance. Then she found herself accused of being irresponsible, and she was asked…
Even for a man known as the “Asian Great Gatsby”, 2019 was an eventful year – to put it mildly.And for Low Taek Jho, the fugitive financier accused of masterminding a multibillion-dollar looting of the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) state fund, lurid headlines would have been the least of his worries.Throughout the year, Jho…
Even for a man known as the “Asian Great Gatsby”, 2019 was an eventful year – to put it mildly.And for Low Taek Jho, the fugitive financier accused of masterminding a multibillion-dollar looting of the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) state fund, lurid headlines would have been the least of his worries.Throughout the year, Jho…
Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court.In a legal first, animal rights activists have asked Germany’s top court to ban the practice of castrating young male pigs without anaesthetic – with the piglets themselves listed as the plaintiffs.The painful procedure has become increasingly controversial in Europe and has been…
Six months of anti-government protests in Hong Kong have burst the bubble in the market for car parking spaces in the city as windfalls from flipping the asset evaporated and speculators were stung by losses in several transactions this year.The bet has lost its flavour with individual investors as demand crumbled along with a slump…