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1. Hotels, online platforms urged to clearly outline refund, booking change policies

   Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog has urged hotels and online booking platforms to clearly outline their responsibilities in cases of reservation changes or refunds, after general complaints reached up to 1,050 annually over the past three years. The Consumer Council also said on Monday that it had received 3,346 complaints about lodgings in the city since 2023, with 2,670 coming from non-local...

2. New shelter for Filipino helpers in Hong Kong ready, pending government approval

   A Tai Po villa serving as a new shelter for distressed Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong is ready but must receive the green light from local authorities before it can open, with the Philippines’ top labour minister saying the facility is bigger, better and more comfortable. Hans Leo J. Cacdac, Secretary of the Department of Migrant Workers, told the South China Morning Post that the new...

3. South Korean music festival plays out against discord in reunification hopes

   A stone’s throw from the barbed wire and minefields that separate the two Koreas, thousands gathered for a music festival this weekend to sing about peace in a place synonymous with conflict. The DMZ Peace Train Music Festival, named after the demilitarised zone that has separated the neighbours for seven decades, gathered artists and fans from around the world. It was the seventh instalment...

4. Norwegian crown princess’ son sentenced to 4 years’ jail for rape, domestic violence

   The stepson of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of domestic violence and other crimes and sentenced to four years in prison, an Oslo court ruled on Monday. Marius Borg Hoiby, 29, who joined the royal family ⁠when his mother Mette-Marit married Haakon in 2001, ‌was acquitted on two other accounts of rape. He had pleaded not guilty ‌to the most severe...

5. Racist gesture at Korean World Cup fan costs Mexican engineering guild chief his post

   A Mexican man who led an engineering guild has apologised after losing his position over a video showing him making a racist gesture at a South Korean fan during a World Cup match in Guadalajara. Ulises Fernando Bernal Miramontes came under fire after he was seen pulling at the corners of his eyes – a gesture derogatory towards people of Asian descent – in a video posted by South Korean...

6. Malaysia’s fight for Malay votes becomes a multiparty scrum

   For much of Malaysia’s post-independence history, Malay voters largely faced a binary choice: Umno, the oldest Malay nationalist political party that governed the country for more than six decades until 2018, or the Islamist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS). But with two state elections fast approaching, a bevy of breakaway parties flying variations of the same nationalist flag are all chasing...

7. Hong Kong developer Lai Sun seeks note swap in bid to ease liquidity pressure

   Hong Kong developer Lai Sun Development, chaired by businessman Peter Lam Kin-ngok, who also chairs the city’s Tourism Board, has launched an exchange offer for its outstanding US$493 million worth of 5 per cent guaranteed notes due July 2026, in an effort to relieve short-term liquidity pressures, the company said Monday in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange. Eligible noteholders can swap...

8. Australian girl dies after Pakistani police ‘mistakenly’ shoots family, officer arrested

   Police shot and killed an Australian child in eastern Pakistan, authorities said, with Canberra calling on Monday for an investigation into the incident that also wounded two of the girl’s family members. Police in Pakistan’s most populous eastern province, Punjab, said that officers responding to a robbery exchanged fire with the suspects who were holding the passengers of a family’s car at...

9. The US-Iran deal has bought time, but what remains to be achieved?

   The United States, Iran and their mediator Pakistan each announced on Sunday that Washington and Tehran had reached an agreement intended to end the conflict between them that has lasted more than 100 days. Writing on social media on Sunday, US President Donald Trump stated: “This Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region.” Representatives for the warring countries said they...

10. Observatory could issue red rainstorm warning, monitoring thundery showers

    This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. The Hong Kong Observatory is considering whether to issue a red rainstorm warning, less than two hours after sending out the amber signal on Monday morning. The forecaster said at 12.55pm that areas of intense thundery showers were affecting Hong Kong and the...