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1. Iran-linked hackers open low-cost digital front as US-Israeli attacks mount

   As they fled an Iranian missile strike, some Israelis with Android phones received a text offering a link to real-time information about bomb shelters. But instead of a helpful app, the link downloaded spyware giving hackers access to the device’s camera, location and all its data. The operation, attributed to Iran, showed sophisticated coordination and is just the latest tactic in a cyber...

2. Paralysed Hong Kong dancer Mo Li shares video of himself steering wheelchair

   A Hong Kong dancer left paralysed after being struck by a giant screen at a concert by popular boy band Mirror has for the first time shown himself moving independently in a wheelchair in a social media video since the accident 3½ years ago. Dancer Mo Li Kai-yin, 31, shared an Instagram video on Saturday of himself operating an electric wheelchair with the caption, “A 90 per cent introvert be...

3. New China school system rewards diligent pupils with ‘digital pets’ to motivate them

   Chinese secondary schoolteachers have introduced a new way of motivating pupils by awarding them “digital pets” that they can adopt online. The move has gained widespread attention and support. Recently, primary and secondary schoolteachers across China introduced an innovative “class pet-raising programme” in which pupils earn points for good behaviour to “feed” and nurture virtual pets. At...

4. North Korea tests powerful missile engine. Will an ICBM launch follow?

   North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a test of a high-thrust solid-fuel engine for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) capable of reaching targets around the globe, touting the development as elevating the country’s “strategic military power to the highest level”, state media said on Sunday. The test of the engine made of composite carbon fibre material produced a maximum thrust of...

5. 4 injured in multi-vehicle collision on busy Hong Kong road

   Four people have been injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Hong Kong’s Kowloon City after a van mounted a pavement and crashed into a wall. Police received a report at 8.34am on Sunday that a driver of a van travelling along Prince Edward Road West towards Mong Kok had lost control near the traffic lights at Earl Street, grazing a truck and a coach before crashing into the back of a car. The...

6. The Philippines loves Jollibee. Overseas Filipinos love it even more

   No fast-food chain has ever meant quite what Jollibee means to Filipinos. Forget McDonald’s and KFC, Jollibee – with its sweet spaghetti and crispy Chickenjoy – is something else entirely: a cultural anchor for a diaspora scattered across every continent on Earth. With more than a million Filipinos leaving the Philippines every year in search of greener pastures abroad, the chain has followed...

7. In 2011, Hong Kong film actor Alan Tang dies at 62 – SCMP archive

   This article was first published on March 30, 2011 by Danny Mok ‘Student Prince’ dies after heart problem Former actor Alan Tang Kwong-wing, known as the “Student Prince”, has died at home. He was 62. The family said he was checked by a family doctor for a heart problem at home in Kadoorie Avenue, Kowloon Tong, yesterday (March 29, 2011) afternoon. He was found collapsed on a bed by a maid...

8. Hong Kong passengers caught off guard by new airport limit of 2 power banks

   Air passengers departing from Hong Kong have said they were unaware of a new rule limiting the number of power banks they could carry to two, with few reminder signs visible at the airport on the first day of its enforcement on Sunday. Hong Kong International Airport announced on Saturday night that departing passengers were restricted to carrying no more than two power banks. Citing new...

9. Why are smugglers swarming East Africa for ants to send to China and Europe?

   For most people, ants are unwelcome guests at a picnic, but international demand for the insects is driving a new black market in East Africa, where it could threaten ant populations and the broader environment. In early March, 27-year-old Chinese national Zhang Kequn was detained at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, with more than 2,200 live queen ants packed in his...

10. As Iran’s drones swarm Gulf, Ukraine’s wartime tech lands billion-dollar deals

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that his country had “undoubtedly changed the geopolitical situation” in the Middle East with a series of decade-long defence agreements with Gulf states being hit with Iranian drones and missiles. Has he? And how important are the agreements for Ukraine, more than four years into the Russian invasion and facing its own maelstrom of...