Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has found that 80 per cent of disinfectant products proving popular during the Covid-19 pandemic are less effective in killing bacteria and viruses than the far-cheaper, traditional method of using diluted bleach.The C...

Two members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus did not board a flight to China after testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies, the UN agency said on Thursday.The two scientists tested positive for IgM ant...

Our graphic artist travelled to mainland China to visit her family, this is a graphic diary of her strict quarantine experience.

A Hong Kong transport worker has been jailed for seven months over an illegal assembly and assault on a police sergeant in a 2019 protest, with the presiding magistrate citing tough new sentencing guidelines by the Court of Appeal.Eastern Court jaile...

A popular AI-driven chatbot in South Korea with the persona of a 20-year-old female student was taken down this week after it was accused of bigotry towards sexual minorities, the #MeToo movement and the disabled.Lee Luda, developed by Seoul-based st...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Ronald Krotoszynski on politico.com on January 13, 2021.On Wednesday, House Democrats, joined by 10 Republican members, adopted an article of impeachment ag...

A domestic helper in Hong Kong fell to her death while cleaning a window of a flat on Thursday.The Indonesian woman, 37, was working on the balcony of a sixth-floor flat in Kingsford Gardens on Tin Hau Temple Road, North Point, when the incident happ...

Italy was plunged into political crisis on Wednesday after former premier Matteo Renzi withdrew his party from the ruling coalition, risking the collapse of the government in the middle of a raging coronavirus pandemic.Renzi announced the resignation...

A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to reach Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it.Melbourne resident Kevin Celli-Bird on Thursday said he d...

A high-speed chase in which two suspected triad members in a Mercedes-Benz pursued a Ferrari from Repulse Bay to Hung Hom in the early hours of Thursday ended with their arrests at the hands of Hong Kong police officers, one of whom was wielding a su...

Twitter chief Jack Dorsey backed the messaging platform’s ban of US President Donald Trump, but said on Wednesday it sets a “dangerous” precedent.“Having to ban an account has real and significant ramifications,” Dorsey said in a string of ...

China’s big state-owned firms are likely to face growing pressure to make payments on their debt this year as Beijing moves to tighten credit growth, government researchers and analysts said.Last year, Chinese state firms defaulted on 71.8 billion ...

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday announced the revival of an Indian and Japanese investment project to develop a deep-sea terminal in Colombo harbour next to a controversial US$500-million Chinese-run container jetty.A triparti...

The island nation of Palau says an oil tanker that recently loaded Venezuelan crude was using a false signal to disguise its identity, potentially putting the nation in the crosshairs of US sanctions.Palau is asking Venezuela to investigate the vesse...

The former governor of the US state of Michigan, Rick Snyder, was charged on Wednesday with wilful neglect of duty after an investigation of ruinous decisions that left Flint with lead-contaminated water and a regional outbreak of Legionnaires’ dis...

South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye over bribery and other crimes as it wrapped up a historic corruption case that marked a striking fall from grace for the country’s first femal...

Johnson & Johnson’s experimental one-shot Covid-19 vaccine generated a long-lasting immune response in an early safety study, providing a glimpse at how it will perform in the real world as the company inches closer to approaching US regulators for...

A team of World Health Organization experts has touched down in the central China city of Wuhan after months of planning, negotiation and video calls laying out a scientific field mission to investigate the origins of Covid-19.According to state news...

Hong Kong was expecting more than 20 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, as a leading government pandemic adviser travelled to Kwai Chung to inspect a housing block where multiple infections have been identified.If confirmed, the daily Covid-19 case tall...

[Sponsored Article] Whether it is looking at the broader economy or from a risk assessment perspective, governments worldwide are now standing at attention and pausing to think of new ways to help mitigate the negative impacts of climate change, and...

[Sponsored Article]  Hong Kong’s unique status as a comprehensive international financial center and its much-vaunted commercial strengths will be instrumental in helping the city develop as Asia’s green finance hub, says Christopher Hui, the S...

China’s exports continued to surge in December, data released by its customs agency on Thursday showed.Exports grew by 18.1 per cent last month from a year earlier, down from 21.1 per cent in November but above the consensus result of a survey of a...

[Sponsored Article] There is no doubt that climate change will become a global issue that needs to be tackled head-on in the coming decade. Every jurisdiction will have a responsibility to help contain the rise in global temperatures, and Hong Kong ...

[Sponsored Article] The robust development of green finance must be a joint effort across the Greater Bay Area (GBA), says Dr Ma Jun, Chairman and President of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA). Organizations like the HKGFA play an imp...

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The Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it had authorised the emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE.The Pfizer-BioNTech shot, which has shown a 95 per cent success rate, is the first vaccine th...

[Sponsored Article]  When it comes to the development of green finance and green investments, individuals, businesses, and educators all play an important role.  This is especially the case for business management schools, according to Professor ...

[Sponsored Article]  By Professor Christine LOH  Chief Development Strategist, Division of Environment and Sustainability of HKUST  China’s pledge on September 22 to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 was a major piece of good news for the worl...

[Sponsored Article]  By Professor ZHANG Chu  Head of the Department of Finance and Director of the Center for Investing, HKUST Business School ESG, or Environmental, Social, and Governance, has become a hot topic recently. In this article I summa...

[Sponsored Article]  By Professor CHEN Zhanhui, Professor George PANAYOTOV and CHU Zhuang Department of Finance, HKUST Business School  Climate change threatens human societies with long-term catastrophic consequences. These threats must be addre...

[Sponsored Article]  By Professor Entela BENZ-SALIASI  CEO and Co-founder of Intensel* Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Finance at HKUST Business School Risk related to climate change is a systematic and unpriced risk. It is the biggest...

[Sponsored Article] Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA sets unprecedented record of world #1 for ten times       Disclaimer: According to the Non-local Higher and Professional Education (Regulation) Ordinance, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program is an ex...

[Sponsored Article]  NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Scheme Associate Professor YU Man from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM) has been awarded the 2020 NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Scheme (...

[Sponsored Article]  This year’s meeting was held on October 8, 2020. For the first time, it was organized on campus in a hybrid mode where members could attend in person or online. Council Chairman Dr Hans Michael JEBSEN presided over the meetin...

[Sponsored Article]  The new Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program being launched by the HKUST Business School will give senior executives the chance to conduct meaningful research in areas that have a real impact on their industries and ...

[Sponsored Article]  HKUST x University of Chicago Webinar Attracted 10,000 Viewers HKUST and the University of Chicago co-presented the webinar “Thrive Amidst Disruptions: The Role of Fintech Post COVID-19” in September. The webinar attracted ...

[Sponsored Article]  Gearing up for Online MBA Courses  The HKUST Business School is delighted to become an alliance partner with the Future of Management Education (FOME). This is an alliance of like-minded business schools who share a vision tha...

[Sponsored Article]  Paul joined HKUST in 2000. With his passion for social impact and sustainable business, Paul taught business ethics and environmental strategy. Since 2016, he held a joint appointment as an Associate Professor of Business Educa...

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Asia’s chicken farmers are confronting the region’s worst bird flu outbreak in years, with the deadly virus affecting farms stretching from Japan to India, roiling some poultry prices and showing no signs of easing.More than 20 million chickens h...

National security police have arrested a lawyer, a Ukrainian man and nine others on suspicion of bankrolling an attempt by 12 Hong Kong fugitives to flee the city.A police source confirmed the arrests early on Thursday of eight men and three women ag...

Millions of people around the world, many Hongkongers among them, are considering dropping the encrypted messaging platform WhatsApp and switching instead to alternatives they believe offer better data and privacy protection following the announcemen...

European companies are at risk of being stranded in the middle of any further US-China decoupling, with some firms predicting a “death knell” for their operations in China.The stark findings were released on Thursday in a joint report by the Euro...

A senior Nasa scientist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying about his ties to a programme that encourages researchers to develop relationships with China in exchange for grants, the US Department of Justice said on Wednesday.Meyya Meyyappan, 66, of ...

Kuaishou, the Chinese short video app operator set for an IPO in Hong Kong as early as this month, has a big issue – how to translate its 300 million daily active users into profits.The app, which competes with ByteDance’s Douyin for eyeballs and...