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1. Plane carrying money crashes in Bolivia, killing 15 and sparking rush to pick bills

   A cargo plane carrying money crashed on Friday near Bolivia’s capital, damaging about a dozen vehicles on the highway, scattering bills on the ground and leaving at least 15 people dead and others injured, an official said. Defence Minister Marcelo Salinas said the Hercules C-130 plane was transporting newly printed Bolivian currency when it “landed and veered off the runway” at an airport in El...

2. US government seeks delay on tariff refund court hearing, faces above 2,000 lawsuits

   The Trump administration is seeking to delay court proceedings over whether it must refund importers billions of dollars in tariffs recently struck down by the US Supreme Court, marking a contentious start to the next phase of the legal fight. The government wants to wait as long as four months before reviving litigation before the US Court of International Trade on the refund question,...

3. Cutting-edge Chinese gene-editing technique raises prospect of new autism treatments

   Chinese scientists have used a cutting-edge gene-editing tool to correct a DNA mutation responsible for cognitive and behavioural problems – a move that could eventually lead to the development of new autism therapies. In lab tests, mice that had been engineered to have the mutation showed a striking change in their behaviour, such as the way they interacted with other mice, after being given an...

4. Commercial EV use needs boost after car owner tax break ends, green groups say

   Hong Kong environmental groups have urged the government to focus on accelerating the commercial use of electric vehicles and enhancing green infrastructure, after scrapping a tax concession scheme for private cars that has cost HK$30 billion over the past decade. Green groups said on Friday that they supported the government’s decision to end the first registration tax (FRT) concessions for...

5. Operation Santa Claus: Hong Kong children find joy and inclusion in mochi-making

   Corporate volunteers from Hong Kong’s Chinachem Group joined children with special educational needs for a mochi-making workshop held ahead of Chinese New Year, as part of the company’s annual charity campaign. The workshop, held in partnership with the charity TREATS, brought participants together to make traditional festive food. TREATS is among the beneficiaries of Operation Santa Claus...

6. UN rights chief slams violence against women, calls it ‘a global emergency’

   The UN rights chief on Friday decried mounting threats to women’s rights worldwide, highlighting rampant femicide and horrific abuse exposed in cases like that of US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk denounced “social systems that silence women and girls” allowing powerful men to abuse them with impunity. “Violence against...

7. Afghanistan’s Taliban open to talks with Pakistan as ‘open war’ continues

   Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan ⁠bombed their forces in major cities and said the allies-turned-foes were in “open war”. Pakistan struck the Afghan capital Kabul, the city of Kandahar, where Taliban leaders were based, and other towns, a Taliban spokesman said. The attacks were its first directly targeting Afghanistan’s government over...

8. Man claiming to have Aids arrested after hijacking Hong Kong bus, causing crash

   A man who claims to have Aids has been arrested after hijacking a bus in Hong Kong and causing it to crash, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source said the 28-year-old mainland Chinese man, surnamed Miao, had blood stains on his hands when he was apprehended. The man also incoherently spoke in Chinese and appeared dazed, according to the insider. The 54-year-old Citybus driver,...

9. The big cornerstone comeback: what’s driving investors back to Hong Kong IPOs?

   Until last year, Fidelity International’s most significant cornerstone commitments on the Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) market dated back to 2021, when Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou Technology raised US$5.4 billion and healthcare firm Medlive Technology completed a US$543.4 million listing. Then for the next four years, the asset manager went quiet. Late last year it returned...

10. China’s pivot from GDP obsession sparks cadre confusion, testing local governance

    Ahead of China’s annual legislative meetings – typically a window into Beijing’s top-level policy agenda – this is the second entry in a series examining the complex economic recalibration driving China’s growth philosophy and its wide-ranging implications for local governments, financial investors and private enterprises. Beijing’s campaign to purge the bureaucracy of a growth-at-all-costs...