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1. Tougher fire safety rules expected in new Hong Kong bill, including fixed penalties

   Hong Kong authorities will submit a draft law by the end of this year to strengthen enforcement against fire safety violations, including issuing fixed penalties alongside existing prosecution options that can take months to carry out. Responding to questions from the South China Morning Post, a Security Bureau spokeswoman said that a fixed penalty system would enhance efficiency and certainty...

2. Hong Kong needs more global listings, wider Stock Connect to strengthen hub role: FSDC

   Hong Kong needs to consider widening the Stock Connect schemes and step up promotion in Southeast Asia and the Middle East to attract more international firms to list in the city, according to a government think tank. Rocky Tung Yat-ngok, newly appointed executive director of the Financial Services Development Council, said that while Hong Kong has been a major listing venue for mainland firms,...

3. Japan’s police face calls for overhaul as discipline cases hit 10-year high

   Japanese police officers who had to be disciplined hit a 10-year high last year, prompting calls for an overhaul for the force. Figures released by the National Police Agency on Thursday showed that 337 personnel had to be disciplined over the course of the year. The problem has become so serious that a leading Japanese newspaper published an editorial on January 26 describing the scale and...

4. Hong Kong, Singapore to be biggest winners as global capital flows shift to Asia: DBS CEO

   Hong Kong and Singapore are set to be the biggest winners in attracting new capital inflows as global investors diversify their asset allocations amid geopolitical risks and trade tensions, according to the top executive at DBS Group. The two Asian financial centres would be the best choice for international investors who previously held overweight positions in US markets but now sought to...

5. Venezuela frees several opposition members after lengthy politically motivated detentions

   Venezuela’s government on Sunday released from prison several prominent opposition members, including one of the closest allies of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, after lengthy politically motivated detentions. Their releases come as the government of acting President Delcy Rodriguez faces mounting pressure to free hundreds of people whose detentions months or years ago have...

6. Europe must act fast in Trump’s more brutal new world order: Luuk van Middelaar

   Luuk van Middelaar is the director of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, a think tank he co-founded in 2022. A political theorist and historian by trade, he has written several books and was in the cabinet of the first European Council president Herman Van Rompuy. Van Middelaar is widely read and cited across Europe for his analysis of the EU’s political evolution, with his books translated...

7. So what if some countries have fewer babies and shrinking populations?

   We live in an interesting time. It has become clear that many Hong Kong couples would rather have a pet than a child. Small families are now the norm: a 2022 survey by the Family Planning Association showed that childless families made up 43.2 per cent of the population, followed by one-child families at 27.4 per cent and two-child families at 25.2 per cent. Anyone still in doubt would have done...

8. Trump insults US Olympic skier Hunter Hess, calling the freestyler a ‘real loser’

   US President Donald Trump criticised American Olympic ‌skier Hunter Hess as a “real loser” on Sunday, days after the athlete expressed ‍mixed feelings about representing the United States at the Winter Olympics in northern Italy. “Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social media platform. Freestyle...

9. Portugal’s Seguro wins presidency in a landslide, beating far-right rival

   Moderate Socialist Antonio Jose Seguro secured a landslide victory and a five-year ‍term as Portugal’s president in a run-off vote on Sunday, beating his far-right, anti-establishment rival Andre Ventura. Seguro, who received backing from prominent conservatives after the first round amid concerns over what many see as Ventura’s populist, authoritarian tendencies, becomes the first Socialist...

10. Epstein files: Norwegian senior diplomat Mona Juul resigns amid government probe

    Norway’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq has resigned after an investigation was launched into her ties to late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. Mona Juul, who played a key role in the secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which led to the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s, is among several high-profile Norwegian figures swept up in the latest Epstein file...