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1. Hong Kong reports 99% participation of young 2019 protest convicts in rehab project

   Nearly 1,800 young Hongkongers convicted of protest and national security-related offences have taken part in a rehabilitation programme, authorities have said, including 99 per cent of those found guilty over the 2019 unrest, up from 63 per cent in 2021. Responding to a question from lawmaker Chan Hok-fung, the Security Bureau said that 1,768 inmates had taken part in Project PATH as of the end...

2. Macau finance minister steps down for ‘personal reasons’

   Macau’s finance minister has resigned over “personal reasons,” prompting the city’s chief executive to temporarily assume his duties until a new candidate is appointed. The cabinet change took effect on Thursday after China’s State Council approved the removal of Tai Kin-ip from the post of secretary for economy and finance, in accordance with Macau’s Basic Law and the recommendation of Chief...

3. China’s Wang Yi calls on Iran to ensure freedom and safe passage through Strait of Hormuz

   China’s top diplomat Wang Yi sought guarantees of freedom and safety of international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, on Wednesday. The call marked Beijing’s latest diplomacy effort on the Iran war as a US naval blockade of Iranian ports intensifies global energy disruptions and adds uncertainty in the Strait of Hormuz, a...

4. Malaysia pumps up police action at border petrol stations to curb subsidised fuel leaks

   Malaysia has deployed police to dozens of petrol stations along its borders as it moves to stop subsidised fuel from leaking out of the country, with the government linking the tougher enforcement to a global energy crunch triggered by the Iran war. The Southeast Asian nation shares borders with Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Brunei. Police said 36 petrol stations had been classified as...

5. Trump says Israel and Lebanon to hold talks Thursday

   US President Donald Trump has said that leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak on Thursday, as Washington pushes to ease hostilities after the rivals’ first direct talks in decades. Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war on March 2 after pro-Tehran group Hezbollah attacked Israel. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 2,000 people and displaced more than a million in Lebanon,...

6. Mark Mobius, pioneering emerging-market investor and China bull, dies at 89

   Mark Mobius, who was known as the father of emerging markets and was among the first fund managers to invest in Hong Kong and mainland China, died on Wednesday at the age of 89, according to a statement on his LinkedIn account. The statement did not give the cause. Mobius was based in Dubai in recent years and remained active in investment via his own firm. He was managing director of Mobius...

7. The fluff stops here: Beijing’s battle against the green wall ‘snowstorm’

   Beijing residents are once again bracing for a seasonal nuisance that has become something of a tradition: the city’s annual “snowstorm” of willow and poplar catkins. The catkins are essentially seeds from female willow and poplar trees, encased in downy fibres. After pollination in spring, the female trees produce seed pods that split open upon ripening, releasing the fluffy seeds to disperse...

8. Residents on Indonesia’s Bali resort to burning trash after landfill ban on organic waste

   The partial closure of a major landfill site on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali is forcing thousands of residents to instead burn trash in their gardens, sparking widespread environmental and health concerns. Suwung landfill, about 10km (six miles) northeast of Denpasar International Airport, used to handle some 1,000 tonnes (1,100 tons) of rubbish a day. As the site nears capacity,...

9. Jailed Iranian Nobel winner Mohammadi ‘critical’ after heart attack

   The health of jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is critical after she suffered a heart attack last month, supporters warned on Wednesday. Her Iran-based family and legal team were on Saturday allowed a second in-person visit with Mohammadi in her prison in northern Iran where “clear signs of a deterioration in her general condition were observed, and her physical state was...

10. Tai Po fire probe: resident recalls deaths of 3 family members, domestic helper

    This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. More Wang Fuk Court residents and senior staff at two engineering firms are set to testify on Thursday for the 13th day of an evidential hearing into Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades. Justice David Lok Kai-hong, the committee chairman, said a day earlier...