BloombergPublished: 2:02pm, 15 Sep 2026The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) on Monday announced funding for a feasibility study on a new transpacific submarine cable linking the US with Thailand and as many as five other Southeast Asian nations, as Washington seeks to expa...
Chow Chung-yanChow Chung-yan began his journalistic career at the South China Morning Post and rose to become editor-in-chief in 2025. Published: 9:30am, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 6:43pm, 15 Sep 2026In any conversation about Hong Kong’s future, one question often emerges: when will the...
World first: Chinese plant extracts critical rare metals from lithium waste South China Morning Post
Chong Ming LeePublished: 8:30pm, 15 Sep 2026A DeepSeek engineer has issued a stark warning about the potential concentration of advanced artificial intelligence and resources in proprietary US developers Anthropic and OpenAI, intensifying a growing debate in China over calls by U...
Zhu Wenqianin BeijingPublished: 4:00pm, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 4:36pm, 15 Sep 2026Chinese companies “going global” are moving from the peripheral to the core in the business world, with their average market share in export markets projected to rise to 31 per cent by 2035 from 18 per...
Opinion | Will Hong Kong’s educators learn from sliding Pisa results? South China Morning Post
The drop in overall fixed-asset investment widened last month, as retail sales grew 0.4 per cent year on year
Matthew ChengPublished: 12:31pm, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 6:47pm, 15 Sep 2026Hong Kong’s first five-year plan will include both binding and aspirational targets, the city’s leader has said, stressing that the long-term blueprint will not signal a move towards a planned economy.
Daisy WuPublished: 8:00am, 15 Sep 2026China’s securities regulator and its industry body are moving to close compensation loopholes for brokerage management and staff, extending anti-corruption oversight to overseas operations for the first time, as Beijing pushes the sector to b...
dpaPublished: 12:41am, 15 Sep 2026Germany’s military counter-intelligence agency, known as MAD, has warned of a growing threat from hybrid attacks and the use of recruited contract agents, or low-level agents, saying Germany is a “prioritised target of Russian espionage activitie...
Olga Wong,Jeffie LamandMatthew ChengPublished: 8:30am, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 8:34am, 15 Sep 2026Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu’s coming policy address will introduce measures to remove hurdles for businesses setting up shop in the Northern Metropolis and include proactive initia...
Agence France-PressePublished: 5:10am, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 12:27pm, 15 Sep 2026The United States has weapons deployed in space, the US Space Force said on Monday, confirming the presence of such capabilities in orbit for the first time.
dpaPublished: 6:34am, 15 Sep 2026Updated: 12:24pm, 15 Sep 2026Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said late on Monday that an oil tanker had struck a sea mine and exploded in the Strait of Hormuz.
Chinese researchers chart 5-stage path toward ‘last AI built by humans’ scmp.com
Hong Kong district councillor remanded in custody after underage sex conviction scmp.com
Hong Kong consumer watchdog questions supermarkets’ buy one, get one free deals scmp.com
Opinion | The classic Chinese parenting playbook won’t survive the AI age scmp.com
Lu HuijingLu Huijing is an associate professor of developmental psychology at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong Published: 5:30am, 15 Sep 2026Like many Hong Kong parents, Ms Ng spends her weekend shuttling her eight-year-old son from one tutoring class to another across the...