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1. Hong Kong back as a top choice for foreign commercial property investors, study says

   Hong Kong commercial real estate is Asia-Pacific’s fifth most favoured investment destination for cross-border capital this year, underscoring an improved outlook for the city’s battered property market, according to a CBRE report. Hong Kong also recorded the second highest number of luxury residential property deals among 12 super-prime markets worldwide in the last quarter of 2025, sustaining...

2. Sloppy redactions in Epstein files leave uncensored nudes in, take dog’s name out

   Nude photos. The names and faces of sexual abuse victims. Bank account and Social Security numbers in full view. All of these things appeared in the mountain of documents released Friday by the US Justice Department as part of its effort to comply with a law requiring it to open its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein. That law was intended to preserve important privacy protections for...

3. Hong Kong residents seek answers in Tai Po fire inquiry as judge vows fairness

   Some residents of Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court have urged an independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades to identify and hold those responsible to account, as the judge leading the inquiry vows a fair and thorough probe. The committee’s first hearing began at 10am on Thursday with a minute of silence to mourn the victims of the fire that claimed at least 168 lives and...

4. US ‘Today’ show host appeals to mother’s kidnapper for proof of life

   NBC Today show host Savannah Guthrie said Wednesday that her family is ready to talk to people holding their mother, but they want to see proof that she is alive. Guthrie said in a recorded video posted on social media that her family has heard about a ransom letter in media reports. “We are ready to talk. However, we live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated” Guthrie said....

5. China slams EU probe into wind turbine maker Goldwind as ‘discriminatory’

   China has criticised the European Commission’s anti-subsidy probe into Chinese wind turbine maker Goldwind Science & Technology as “targeted” and “discriminatory”, warning that such measures would undermine Chinese companies’ confidence in the European market and disrupt the bloc’s green transition. “The European side’s related investigations have generalised the concept of ‘foreign subsidies’...

6. Japan’s ‘extremely unreasonable’ election timing threatens to keep young voters away

   Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has come under fire for deciding to hold Sunday’s general election during the peak university entrance exam season, with critics saying it has placed an additional burden on students. Takaichi’s abrupt announcement last month to dissolve the House of Representatives has also been questioned, as it will be the first time since 1990 that a lower house...

7. Temperatures to drop to 13 degrees on Sunday as cold front sweeps Hong Kong

   This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Temperatures in Hong Kong are expected to drop on Sunday as a cold front sweeps across southern China, ending several days of warm and humid weather. The Hong Kong Observatory said minimum temperatures could fall to around 13 degrees Celsius (55.4 Fahrenheit)...

8. Baptism of fire: my first criminal trial

   It was a blisteringly hot afternoon at the tail end of my pupillage in ’00. I was staring into space and imagining my glorious debut in court – when the phone rang. On the other end was a clerk from a small local solicitors’ firm, who asked, with alarming nonchalance, whether I could defend a robbery trial at Sha Tin Magistrates’ Court the following week. I said yes immediately – with a brief...

9. Canada wants a middle-power alliance. Will Asia-Pacific sign up?

   Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s call for middle powers to band together amid a fragmenting world order is a vision analysts say appeals to many Asian nations, but lacks a blueprint to bring them all together. Speaking in Switzerland last month, Carney urged mid-sized and smaller countries to unite against the economic coercion of great powers, warning that nations failing to act...

10. Those betting on Hong Kong’s bright future have backed a winner

    Former governor Chris Patten once said nobody ever profited from betting against Hong Kong. Anybody wagering against its “one country, two systems” policy will undoubtedly be out of pocket. Since 1997, the policy has been the city’s lodestar. While the post-reunification settlement was repeatedly challenged, most notably during the 2019 social unrest, Hong Kong has emerged stronger. The Basic...