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1. Regal’s US$194 million hotel sale highlights investor push into Hong Kong student housing

   Regal Hotels International Holdings and its units have sold the 494-room Regal Kowloon Hotel for about HK$1.52 billion (US$194 million) to the real estate investment arm of Centaline Group, which operates one of Hong Kong’s largest property agency networks, to be converted into a student hostel. Regal Hotels and affiliates Century City International Holdings and Paliburg Holdings agreed to...

2. Iran war delivers new inflation stress to African economies emerging from older shocks

   The ripples of the war against Iran by the US and Israel are exerting inflationary pressures across Africa through higher energy and fertiliser prices, threatening an already fragile economic recovery. Most of Africa’s 54 countries depend on fuel imports and have experienced sharp increases in fuel prices, driven by disruptions to Middle East exports and the surge in global prices. Most are just...

3. US eyes a Philippine ammo facility as opposition warns of ‘warmongering’

   Washington and its allies are drawing up plans to establish an ammunition production facility in the Philippines, a move critics warn would turn the Southeast Asian nation into a logistics arm of US “warmongering”. The proposal emerged last week from the Partnership for Indo-Pacific Industrial Resilience (PIPIR), a US-led initiative founded in 2024 to reduce supply chain vulnerabilities and help...

4. China cuts exports of 2 hi-tech metals to Japan, increases rare earth shipments

   China has cut exports of two metals used in military technology to Japan while increasing shipments of rare earth magnets, in what could signal a muted warning after geopolitical tensions between the two Asian economies flared last year. Exports of gallium to Japan registered zero volume in the first two months of the year, compared with 8,007kg (17,652 pounds) in the same period of 2025,...

5. Indonesia will not pay US$1 billion fee for ‘Board of Peace’ membership, Prabowo says

   Indonesia’s president, under fire at home for signing up to US counterpart Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace”, has insisted his country will not pay the US$1 billion joining fee for permanent membership. Jakarta had only committed peacekeeping troops for the initiative, Prabowo Subianto said in a statement published on the presidential YouTube channel Sunday. The “Board of Peace” came together...

6. Hong Kong police file fresh terrorism charge against pair over alleged bomb plot

   Hong Kong police have charged two men with a fresh terrorism offence under the national security law over an alleged bomb plot dating back three years. Prosecutors on Monday applied to the Eastern Court to amend the charges against Ng Tsz-kit, 36, and Ho Chi-hang, 35, ahead of the case being transferred to the High Court for trial. The pair now face a conspiracy charge of committing terrorist...

7. Ex-assistant principal given 36-month bind-over for stealing groceries from Sogo

   A former assistant principal in a Hong Kong secondary school has avoided a criminal conviction for stealing over HK$3,000 (US$380) worth of food and drinks from a supermarket last year, and given a bind-over order instead. Eastern Court Principal Magistrate David Cheung Chi-wai on Monday sentenced Ng Ka-yun, 47, to be bound over for 36 months with a payment of HK$2,000. “The defendant should...

8. Hong Kong’s Art March celebrations press on amid Middle East conflict disruptions

   Most overseas galleries were able to attend Hong Kong’s two annual art fairs, part of the much-anticipated Art March celebration, despite the conflict in the Middle East, though questions remain over how participants and artworks will leave the city as air travel continues to face heavy disruption. Organisers and logistics suppliers told the South China Morning Post that many inbound visitors...

9. Withholding device passwords punishable under tightened national security rules

   Hong Kong authorities could punish those who refuse to provide passwords for electronic devices during national security investigations under new rules. The government on Monday gazetted amendments it made to the implementation rules of the national security law, nearly six years after Beijing imposed the legislation on the city. The changes took effect immediately. A spokesman said the changes...

10. From coal to cures: Chinese scientists bring a 160-year-old dream to life

    Chinese scientists have discovered a way to turn cheap coal into valuable ingredients for medicine. This was once a long and difficult process, but now they have found a surprising short cut. In a study published on March 16 in the journal Nature, Jiao Ning’s team at Peking University solved a chemical puzzle that had confounded scientists for over 160 years. They successfully transformed...