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1. Risk of importing chikungunya into Hong Kong expected to rise: health official

   The risk of importing the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus into Hong Kong is expected to rise, according to a senior health official, who has identified the increasing global prevalence of the disease caused by climate change and residents’ frequent summer travel as factors. But Ronald Lam Man-kin, director of the Department of Health, sought on Sunday to reassure the public that the risk of...

2. China hosts exhibition emphasising ‘Russianness’ of realist painter Ilya Repin

   An exhibition of works by Ilya Repin – the realist painter at the centre of a culture war between Moscow and Kyiv – has opened in Beijing as part of an exchange series between China and Russia. A collection of 48 oil paintings and 44 sketches by Repin (1844-1930), one of the most renowned 19th-century artists in the Russian Empire, is on show at the National Museum of China. The exhibition –...

3. China doctors remove 2kg hairball from girl’s stomach – caused by 6-year habit

   Doctors in China had to remove a 2 kg “hair ball” from the stomach of a teenage girl after she became addicted to pulling out and eating her own hair over a six-year period. In July, the 15-year-old, nicknamed Nini, from Henan province in central China, went to Wuhan Children’s Hospital in the neighbouring province of Hubei with her mother. The girl was extremely thin, standing at 1.6m but...

4. Hong Kong authorities object as Australia, UK grant asylum to 2 activists

   Hong Kong authorities have lambasted the “harbouring of criminals by countries” as Australia and the United Kingdom granted asylum to a pair of opposition activists wanted for national security offences. Fugitive former lawmaker Ted Hui Chi-fung, who lives in Adelaide, and activist Tony Chung Hon-lam, based in London, announced separately on their social media accounts this weekend that they had...

5. New Chinese see-through brain technique offers clearest look inside its workings

   Chinese scientists have developed a technology that can make organs such as the brain or the heart transparent, allowing an exceptionally clear view of their inner workings. The new method produced “highly accurate and vivid” 3D images of organs by preserving the integrity of their biological structures and enhancing the brightness of the fluorescent dyes scientists use to highlight cells and...

6. Hong Kong stablecoin rules to upgrade city’s trade-finance role: UAE banker

   Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance marks a significant milestone, as cross-border payments using the cryptocurrency can facilitate trade-finance flows between Hong Kong, mainland China and global markets such as the Middle East, according to the CEO of Zand, an AI-powered fintech and financial-services group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Future development under the ordinance could help Hong...

7. No 1 typhoon signal in Hong Kong to remain in force until 8pm on Sunday

   This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. The No 1 typhoon signal will remain in force in Hong Kong at least until 8pm on Sunday, while some classes were suspended in neighbouring Macau due to the tropical depression. The Hong Kong...

8. Asia’s small businesses brace for a US tariff-economy ‘disaster’

   In boardrooms and backstreets from Singapore to Hanoi, owners of Asia’s small and medium-sized enterprises had barely got over the shock of the pandemic’s economic upheaval when another disruption arrived – this time from Washington, in the form of new tariffs that risk upending cross-border commerce and livelihoods. Following a series of hard-fought trade negotiations with the Trump...

9. Can China’s hypersonic drone carrier bring Nasa’s ‘scissor wing’ dream to life?

   Chinese aerospace engineers are revisiting a decades-old, largely abandoned aviation concept – the oblique rotating wing – and transforming it into a potential cornerstone of future warfare: an unstaffed hypersonic mother ship capable of flying at five times the speed of sound and unleashing a swarm of drones behind enemy lines. Drawing inspiration from Nasa’s quirky AD-1 experimental aircraft...

10. Southeast Asian ‘smart money’ fishing for ‘trophy assets’ in Hong Kong

    Mainland Chinese buyers and “smart money” from Southeast Asia will continue “bottom-fishing for trophy assets” in Hong Kong’s luxury property market as prices remain depressed through 2025, according to the director and head of residential sales at Savills. Capital from Singapore had been flowing to Hong Kong because the Singaporean market had not declined, Thomas See said. “Some smart money has...