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1. Managers of Swiss bar face negligence probe after fatal New Year’s fire that killed 40

   Swiss authorities have opened an investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead, police said on Saturday. The two are suspected of negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and causing fire by negligence, police said in a statement. They said that the investigation was opened on Friday night, but did not give further details. More than 100...

2. US interventions in Latin America: a history of coups and conflicts

   The United States, which on Saturday attacked Venezuela and is said to have abducted its president, has a long history of military interventions and support for dictatorships in Latin America. On multiple occasions the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro – who Donald Trump says is now in US hands – accused Washington of backing coup attempts. Here are the main...

3. Self-proclaimed ‘peace President’ Trump bombs Venezuela, strikes Nigeria, warns Iran

   Donald Trump returned to office vowing to be the peace president. Nearly a year later, he is embracing war on multiple fronts. Trump on Saturday ordered large-scale military strikes in Venezuela and announced that leftist leader Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. The raid to kick off the new year comes after the US military on Christmas Day hit Nigeria, in what Trump...

4. What if China’s KJ-600 aircraft could serve older carriers as well as Fujian?

   China’s first fixed-wing carrier-based early-warning aircraft may have sacrificed aerial refuelling to be able to operate from both ski-jump and catapult-equipped vessels, according to a Chinese military magazine. The KJ-600 airborne early warning and control aircraft was designed for catapult-launched operations and made its debut at the Victory Day parade in early September, flying over...

5. Travellers hoof it in China as horseback tourism makes strides

   Hong Kong-based entrepreneur Chan Shan Shan is a frequent traveller to mainland China. But rather than the usual activities or sightseeing spots that fill the days of most tourists, Chan has something else on her itinerary: horse riding. Over the past five years, Chan, 29, has left Hong Kong to canter across varied terrains in Shenzhen, Dongguan and Zhuhai, all in neighbouring Guangdong...

6. Hong Kong firm sanctioned by US in Venezuela crackdown found to use bogus address

   A Hong Kong-based company sanctioned by the United States for alleged links to Venezuelan oil exports registered a fictitious address in the city, the Post has found, leaving a namesake eyewear firm anxious about repercussions. The Trump administration stepped up its pressure campaign against Venezuela’s oil exports earlier this week by sanctioning four companies based in Hong Kong and mainland...

7. Iran’s Khamenei demands rioters ‘be put in their place’ as protests grow amid Trump warning

   Iran’s supreme leader insisted on Saturday that “rioters must be put in their place” after a week of protests that have shaken the Islamic Republic, likely giving security forces a green light to aggressively put down the demonstrations. The first comments by 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei come as violence surrounding the demonstrations sparked by Iran’s ailing economy has killed at least 10...

8. 15 left hanging as Hong Kong Ocean Park’s ‘Wild Twister’ ride breaks down again

   A high-speed ride at Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has malfunctioned for the second time in six months, again trapping thrill-seekers in mid-air. Fifteen people on the theme park’s “Wild Twister” ride were stranded for 19 minutes on Saturday afternoon. A park spokesman said a signal failure at 2.57pm automatically triggered the safety system to halt the ride. “Fifteen affected passengers all left the...

9. Hong Kong’s Route 6 set to fully open in 2026, transport chief Mable Chan says

   A new route connecting Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Tei and Tseung Kwan O will fully open this year, the city’s transport chief has said. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan also said on Saturday that the route, on which construction began in 2017, would be fully connected by the end of the year following the completion of a Kowloon Bay tunnel section linking to the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin...

10. AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world’s first plant ID app, leaves US for China

    AI scientist Ling Haibin, the acclaimed computer scientist behind the world’s first mobile plant identification app, has left his position in the United States to take up a full-time role at Westlake University in Hangzhou, eastern China. One of Ling’s PhD research projects, which involved using computers to recognise leaves of different shapes, led to the creation of the identification app...