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1. 1966 Hong Kong rainstorm leaves 64 dead in one of city’s worst floods ever – SCMP archive

   This article was first published on June 13, 1966 36 feared dead in storm horror At least 36 people are feared to have died in the fierce floods following one of the worst rainstorms in Hongkong’s history. Last night (June 12, 1966) officials— still working on rescue operations — revealed that 32 people were still missing, and 33 were injured. More than 600 people were rendered homeless by the...

2. South Korean court sentences ex-president Yoon to 30 years over Pyongyang drone plot

   South Korea’s ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Friday for sending drones into North Korea, a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024. Special prosecutors said back in April that Yoon’s effort to “fabricate wartime conditions” with the drones had undermined state security. This sentence comes after...

3. Giant ‘8647’ anti-Trump markings appear in US capital

   US Park Police opened an investigation on Thursday into giant markings of the numbers “8647” – which have been associated with opposition to President Donald Trump – on the grass of the National Mall. A spokesperson for the Department of the Interior, which manages the National Mall in downtown Washington, described the incident as “deranged vandalism” and said it “will not be tolerated”. “Any...

4. Will Marcos’ shipbuilding push deliver lasting capacity for Philippines?

   The Philippines has a rare opening to turn its geography, skilled workers and deepening ties with Japan into a stronger maritime industrial base, but analysts say Manila’s push to make shipbuilding a strategic industry will be judged by whether fresh investment can produce lasting capacity. President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr gave that drive a concrete boost on June 3 when he ordered the addition of...

5. Wartime apology author and Japan-China ‘bridge’ Yohei Kono dies at 89

   A prominent backchannel political figure between Japan and China has died, days before a reported planned trip meant to ease deep bilateral tensions. Yohei Kono, best known for his historic apology on August 4, 1993, to tens of thousands of “comfort women” who were forced by the Japanese military into sexual slavery during World War II, died on Monday. He was 89. Considered a moderate voice...

6. Singapore charges construction firm, boss over Tanjong Katong sinkhole lapses

   Ohin Construction, its managing director and several employees were charged on Thursday over alleged lapses linked to the sinkhole that appeared in Singapore’s Tanjong Katong neighbourhood in July last year. The company faces eight charges, mostly under the Building Control Act, Workplace Safety and Health Act and Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) regulations. Its managing...

7. Scott Pelley’s firing from 60 Minutes offers Hong Kong food for thought

   Before Scott Pelley was fired from 60 Minutes last week, he accused CBS’s editor-in-chief of “murdering” the programme he had served for over two decades. For a show that once defined hard-edged journalism, his dismissal raises questions about what institutional independence means. The split followed a tense staff meeting in which Pelley confronted the show’s new executive producer. In a...

8. For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die

   Chinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered the largest “whale-fall site” ever recorded in the Indian Ocean. The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique ecosystems they support, with some fossils dating back about 5.3 million years. Detailed in a paper published in the...

9. Roche’s global survey highlights urgent need to shift diabetes care from disease treatment to mental wellbeing

   [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Nearly one in ten people in Hong Kong now live with diabetes, and the city’s burden is growing. An ageing population, shifting lifestyles, and a substantial number of undiagnosed cases have combined to make diabetes an increasingly urgent public-health challenge2,3. For people with diabetes (PwD) the condition is a daily...

10. Chinese woman suffers pancreatitis after 6-day starvation, binge-eating once weekly

    A 25-year-old woman in China has been diagnosed with acute pancreatitis after she followed an extreme weight-loss regime which consisted of eating once a week and hardly eating a thing for the remaining six days. The woman, who uses the alias Qingqing and lives in Hangzhou, eastern Zhejiang province, is 1.55m tall. She previously weighed 55kg, the Xinmin Evening News reported. However, months...