About 434,000 people in the city were estimated to have at least HK$10 million (US$1.27 million) in total assets last year, a 15 per cent drop from 515,000 in 2020, according to Citibank’s ‘Hong Kong Affluent Study 2021’.

Force insider says four officers allegedly caught fishing on police barge platform moored at mouth of Tolo Channel near Grass Island.

Kenneth Roth announces he will step down this summer as executive director after nearly three decades at the helm of one of the world’s leading advocacy organisations.

Zero moderation, blue ticks for sale? When the Tesla founder takes over Twitter, the platform could become a free-for-all of hate, extremism and disinformation, experts warn.

Businesses have been forced to adjust their outlooks because of delays resulting from China’s zero-Covid ambitions, but ‘transport isn’t stopping’.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam attributes public’s concerns to misunderstandings on the extent of press freedom is covered by constitutional safeguards.

Republican lawmakers in the United States welcomed news that billionaire Elon Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, was purchasing Twitter, but Democrats slammed it as a sign that more needed to be done to rein in Big Tech.

Swindler impersonating boss from company’s headquarters claimed funds were needed for acquisition purposes in emails sent in March.

Former Beijing stock-market worker Elizabeth Zhong, or Ying Zhong, moved to New Zealand from China in 1997. Fang Sun is accused of stabbing her more than 20 times ‘for losing him or his family over US$16.5 million’, prosecutors said.

Australia’s Labor Party said it would establish the school to provide training for the defence and security forces of Pacific nations, after accusing Scott Morrison’s government of failing to prevent the China-Solomon Islands pact.

HSBC’s pre-tax profit was US$4.2 billion in the first quarter, beating a consensus estimate of US$3.72 billion as CEO Noel Quinn said he is encouraged that the bank’s strategy is on track.

Moscow said it had arrested members of a ‘neo-Nazi terrorist’ group in Russia after foiling their plot to assassinate leading figures in Russia’s state media, including TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov, on orders from Ukraine.

Alleged assault took place after suspect intercepted near a sitting-out area at the junction of Cleverly Street and Burd Street at 12.47am on Tuesday.

The offering forms an important move to support Hong Kong’s plan to increase the use of wind, waste-to-energy projects and solar power to generate electricity to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

Born on January 2, 1903, Kane Tanaka was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person in 2019 when she was 116. She died of old age on April 19 at a hospital in Fukuoka.

A graduate student stuck in Shanghai was trying to help her fellow classmates get through the city’s incessant lockdown, and she received an avalanche of hate as a result.

The government should consider introducing new incentives to encourage developers to build more elderly-friendly flats within private residential projects.

Southeast Asian firms will be incentivised to invest in Hainan under the free-trade port plan, especially in the service sector, thanks to the easing of restrictions and lower taxes, authorities say.

The sudden scrutiny of Nazlan Ghazali, a court of appeal judge who presided over the 2020 conviction of former PM Najib Razak on 1MDB charges, has drawn sharp criticism.

Twitter’s acceptance of Elon Musk’s roughly US$44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire Tesla CEO one step closer to owning the social media platform.

Shanghai’s battle with Omicron offers valuable lessons for Beijing’s nearly 22 million residents, who have already begun hoarding food and essential supplies in anticipation of a citywide lockdown.

20 million people affected as tests ordered for 10 more districts with central government departments affected.

Beijing-based team says its technology can connect satellites to beam six films a second coast-to-coast, from a device smaller than a suitcase.

Carrie Lam says the government will push on with relaxing social-distancing measures unless there is a sudden, ‘unlikely’ surge in Covid-19 infections.

The US and other G7 members are asking Jakarta to invite President Volodymyr Zelensky to November’s summit, after being frustrated at the Indonesian government’s refusal to withdraw Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom pointed to ‘numerous’ attacks on religious minorities last year as PM Narendra Modi’s government promoted ‘its ideological vision of a Hindu state’.

The military has been taken by the impact of what are relatively rudimentary drones in the war, with a defence official noting they are cost-effective and easy to deploy.

Hotel operators say most of their summer bookings consist of residents planning to return from overseas.

All residents can now gather in large groups and stop using the TraceTogether app at most places in the city state, which also axed pre-departure Covid tests.

By 2030, the world will be experiencing 1.5 disasters a day on average, a new report finds.

Since a 55 per cent breakout in early last year, China’s top vaccine producers have slumped from Shanghai to Shenzhen and Hong Kong, making investors US$12.7 billion poorer on paper this year.

The crisis has highlighted shared areas of concern in economics and defence across Southeast Asia, where ties with Russia are complicated and hard to sever. India’s avoidance of bloc politics makes it more attractive as a strategic partner.

Applications to recognise inventions rise 30 per cent last year, agency says.

China in April enlarged its list of state-sponsored seed breeding and production bases for the first time since 2013, a ‘concrete move’ aimed at addressing rising food security concerns in the world’s most populous nation.

The ruling drew swift condemnation from some of Turkey’s main allies in Nato, as well rights campaigners.

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The leading hypothesis for the cause of the illness is a combination of a normal adenovirus plus another factor that makes it more severe, such as Covid-19.

A New York judge found the ex-US president in contempt of court after he missed a deadline to turn over documents for a civil probe into his business dealings.

The SpaceX capsule carrying the four-man crew splashed down in the Atlantic after a two-week trip hailed as a milestone in commercial space flight.

‘There are serious unanswered questions about Hikvision’s involvement in appalling human rights abuses in China,’ says Fraser Sampson, Britain’s commissioner for biometrics and an independent monitor.

Republicans are going to new extremes to silence opponents. Democrats have largely failed muster a defence – with the exception of a viral speech that showed the kind of backbone the party needs.

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Monday’s parade, celebrating 90th anniversary of founding of nation’s army, said to have started around 10pm local time in the capital, Pyongyang.

Research focuses on Chinese people aged 80 and over and results may not apply to other age and ethnic groups, such as those in Western countries: paper.

The pope urged authorities to ‘make clear once and for all’ who was responsible for fatal attacks; it’s been said the bombs were part of a plot to help Rajapaksa win the November 2019 election.

‘Elderly welfare has been neglected and forgotten by the government for so many years’, says one advocate.

China’s strict anti-pandemic rules spark doubts about how freely the team can move around the country and Bachelet’s visit itself.

Beijing is taking aim at local authorities who improperly shut down roads and ban farmers from their fields at a time when the central government says food security is of paramount importance.

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on Monday that it will cut the amount of foreign exchange deposits banks have to set aside by 1 percentage point to 8 per cent from May 15.