Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy – an evolutionary safety net that provides the building blocks for natural selection. While members of the same species share a mostly identical genome, a sliver of unique genetic variants determines...

Hongkongers will experience the chilliest days of autumn this coming week, with temperatures expected to drop to 16 degrees Celsius (61 Fahrenheit) as a cold front sweeps across the southern Chinese coast. The expected drop to 16 degrees on Friday an...

Chinese ambassador to the United States Xie Feng has signalled high hopes for major-power cooperation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen this week, promoting a China-led AI alliance for regional prosperity. The prosper...

Hong Kong’s police chief has dismissed concerns that geopolitical tensions could affect attendance at the coming Interpol general assembly to be held in the city, saying transnational cooperation on policing is “inevitable”. Speaking on a telev...

The charred body of an elderly woman was found in a flat in Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin after a blaze broke out on Sunday morning, with officers uncovering a large amount of clutter piled up to the ceiling. The Fire Services Department received a repo...

China has upgraded its VT-4 series main battle tank with cutting-edge technologies aimed at the international market, newly surfaced photos show ahead of the country’s premier defence exhibition in Zhuhai. The appearance of the new tank, believed t...

Chinese and South Korean shipping through the Arctic Ocean to Europe has increased this year, although unpredictable ice, high costs and lapses in demand have exposed the challenges of navigating the route, an environmental research group has found. ...

The South Korean government said Nvidia’s existing partnership commitments to Seoul remain intact despite disgraced CEO Jensen Huang’s departure from the artificial intelligence giant. However, uncertainties linger as remarks by Elon Musk and oth...

The United Arab Emirates, a favoured destination for foreign property investment, could see support for housing demand and prices if heavy midterm losses for US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party help bring an end to the Iran war, analysts s...

Hong Kong police have arrested a taxi driver for alleged dangerous driving after his vehicle hit two British nationals who were crossing the road in Wan Chai. Police said on Sunday that the incident happened at 1.39am, when the victims – a 65-year-...

The Victoria Harbour Race on Sunday ended in chaos and disappointment for hundreds of swimmers, after organisers cancelled the final waves of amateur competitors, while reports said others were pulled from the water with the finish line in sight. Wit...

China’s bricks-and-mortar bookstores are increasingly counting on coffee, merchandise and cultural events rather than books to stay afloat – a survival strategy whose tensions were laid bare after a major chain asked a book buyer to vacate its ca...

When Iran’s military planners prepared to hit American bases in the Middle East, they relied on intelligence from an unlikely source: US service members themselves. According to security experts and even the US military, Iran harvested data from so...

Hong Kong must proactively expand trade networks and not “wait for luck to come our way”, as artificial intelligence development that drove recent growth in exports may gradually slow down, the city’s commerce minister has said. Secretary for C...

Malaysia’s plans to allow registered refugees to work legally have raised hopes among their communities that have long relied on precarious informal employment to survive, even as Thailand’s experience suggests that such a move is only part of th...

China has ushered artificial intelligence into its cinemas, but the country’s first fully AI-generated feature film has flopped at the box office. Made with no human actors or camera crew, Sanxingdui: Future Past brought in just around 1.8 million ...

The internationally acclaimed pianist Yuja Wang has denied making a last-minute change to a recent performance in Hong Kong that resulted in audience refunds, saying the concert organiser was told weeks in advance about the revised programme. In a st...

Hong Kong International Airport has become the world’s first to deploy robots to repaint runway markings, cutting the time needed to refresh centre lines by about 67 per cent compared with manual painting, its managing authority has said. According...

Before mainland Chinese troops could attempt a landing on Taiwan, they would first have to assemble vehicles, weapons and supplies along the coast – potentially exposing them to Taiwanese drone, rocket and missile attacks. A nighttime drill reporte...

Alina Radulescu, 38, has stayed in Italy, the United States and Thailand for months at a time. Now, the IT consultant from Romania shares a co-living space in Seoul with 11 other digital nomads – and says she’s never been happier. “There’s a ...

South Korean police said on Sunday they had launched an investigation after the top scorer in a national tax accountant exam confessed to using artificial intelligence to cheat. The test taker, who ranked first in both rounds of the national qualific...

UBS has drawn back the curtains on its new Hong Kong headquarters in West Kowloon, a 20-storey tower with a client floor built for meetings, dinners and events, as the Swiss lender anchors its regional presence to tap growing wealth across the Greate...

In China, some influential online voices offering health advice are neither doctors nor academics, but AI-generated blue aliens. Depicted as emissaries from an advanced civilisation, the bald, blue-skinned digital figures have humanlike bodies and gl...

For some ⁠people, the blue, green and white striped socks hanging near the entrance of a FamilyMart convenience store may look more like an emergency purchase than a fashion statement. Yet the 390 yen (US$2.44) socks have become one of Japan’s be...

Hong Kong will send one of its largest-ever delegations to the Apec CEO Summit in Shenzhen on Tuesday and Wednesday, with at least 54 business leaders set to attend, the South China Morning Post has learned. According to a delegation list obtained by...

Pseudo-history about China is mushrooming online, spreading fake accounts of the past due in large part to platform algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and a lack of monitoring, according to a Chinese provincial authority. In a commentary publis...

China’s leading artificial intelligence model companies are beginning to curb the cybersecurity capabilities of their most advanced open-weight models, following a string of high-profile AI hacking incidents involving both US and Chinese companies....

Hong Kong firefighter Yuen Chung-hang did not expect to have to explain his work experience while dangling from a rope to rescue one of two workers left hanging in mid-air outside a skyscraper after their gondola malfunctioned. As Yuen tried to keep ...

World leaders converged in Manila for the Asean summit on Sunday, bringing attention to the 11-member bloc’s growing clout in a region with a population of 700 million and a US$4.4 trillion economy that is tipped to become the world’s fourth larg...

Identity politics could very well decide the outcome of Malaysia’s next national election, experts say, after parties and voters dug in their heels along ethnic lines in recent polls that have undermined Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s multicultur...

SpaceX’s Starship made a triumphant return to Earth on Saturday, caught in mid-air by giant mechanical arms where its journey began 22 hours earlier. It was the grand finale that Elon Musk and his team hoped for – the first-ever capture of a Star...

Talks at Cop31, the United Nations climate change conference being held in Antalya, Turkey, come at a critical moment for climate-vulnerable countries across the Global South. Bangladesh is among those bearing the brunt of climate change despite havi...

The 33rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit will be held in Shenzhen from November 18 to 19. The venue is not accidental. Forty years ago, this was a border town of rice fields and duck ponds; it is now where a good part of the world’s...

Weary travellers braced for more flight disruptions on Saturday as service resumed from US airports after an hours-long stoppage that the Trump administration blamed on faulty equipment or an error by a contractor tasked with switching out old copper...

Filipino singer Carmelle won the first Asian edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a fiery performance of her dance-pop song “Sobra-Sobra”. The 19-year-old beat 10 other acts in the grand final in Bangkok, with the winner chosen...

US negotiators have floated the idea of Ukraine’s potential withdrawal from its eastern region of Donbas in exchange for joining Nato, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, following the latest round of peace talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi. This is th...

Disciplinary staff in Wuhan, provincial capital of Hubei in central China, were going about their routine workday when a red alert landed. It was from a large data model – flagging a possible case of corruption. “A company took on more than 10 pr...

Six people were arrested overnight after a huge blast at a steel plant near the western city of Izmir killed 17 workers, with grieving families waiting on Tuesday to receive their loved ones’ bodies for burial. Onlookers said Monday’s massive exp...

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has warned that it will face significant cash flow pressures over the next few years, even with the government’s grant of eight new sites for developing the Northern Link rail project in the Northern Metropolis. The wa...

Drones are banned, security cameras bristle at intersections and some residents have been asked to vacate their homes as the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen counts down to the Apec meetings. Thousands of government officials, journalists, tourists ...

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort has reported to police the theft of 17,000 ticket QR codes from its online ticketing system and suspended sales through its website, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source said on Saturday that an IT worker at ...

China and South Korea have agreed to use next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen to advance bilateral ties, according to their top diplomats. The pledge by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his South Korean counterpart C...

Hong Kong residents have been warned about fake vehicle airbag safety recall messages circulating widely on WhatsApp, with the Chinese-language notices bearing the Transport Department’s name. A department spokesman said on Saturday that the case h...

In ancient China, when a man became seriously ill, his family might arrange a wedding for him in an attempt to drive away the disease. The custom is called chong xi, literally translated as “clashing with joy”. Its rationale is that a happy event...

From A-list underwear campaigns to everyday wardrobe staples, tight briefs are often hailed as the ultimate symbol of masculine appeal. However, a major new study out of China suggests that choosing tight underwear over classic boxer shorts could lea...

Hong Kong police will activate artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition across their expanding smart surveillance network on Monday, the force’s chief has said. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said on Saturday that the technology...

Hong Kong will launch a trial scheme next year to handle proxy voting via an electronic platform, a move designed to pave the way for a cap on proxies and curb rampant bid-rigging in private housing estates. Announcing the plan on Saturday, Secretary...

China is updating a law that has underpinned one of the most remarkable industrial transformations of our time. After two decades of rapid renewable-energy development, China is preparing to rewrite the rules that have guided, supported and guarded i...

Nearly a year after taking effect, the landmark High Seas Treaty risks becoming another geopolitical battleground among major powers, observers have warned. Ratified by 105 countries, including China but not the United States and Russia, the Agreemen...

Slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung’s former brother-in-law began his defence in the seventh week of the trial over her alleged murder, describing himself as a close friend but claiming he “blanked out” while helping to dispose of her ...