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1. Damp days ahead in Hong Kong, with 95% humidity expected in midweek

   This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong faces a damp week ahead as humidity is expected to peak at 95 per cent with the arrival of a seasonal coastal mist from Wednesday, according to the city’s weather forecaster. The Observatory said on Sunday daytime temperatures would climb to 26...

2. Hongkonger, 28, held as HK$20 million of suspected cocaine seized in village house

   Hong Kong police seized HK$20 million (US$2.55 million) worth of suspected cocaine in a village house in Sha Tin and arrested a 28-year-old man in an anti-drug trafficking operation on Saturday. Senior Inspector Conrad Chan Yuen-fun, of the police narcotics bureau’s operation division, said on Sunday that the raid stopped the drugs from reaching the market. The operation followed an...

3. Top of the world: why Indonesian workers are happiest in Asia-Pacific

   A survey showing workers in Indonesia as the happiest in Asia-Pacific has prompted discussions about the factors underpinning their positive attitudes relative to their regional peers. A workplace report published this month by employment marketplace Jobstreet by SEEK found 82 per cent of Indonesian respondents said they felt somewhat or extremely happy at work, the highest level among eight...

4. Couple arrested after 1-year-old son falls to his death from Hong Kong flat

   A Hong Kong couple have been arrested after their one-year-old son fell to his death from a high-rise residential building in Tsuen Wan, the South China Morning Post has learned. Preliminary investigations showed that the living room windows in the family’s fifth-floor unit were neither locked nor fitted with grilles, according to a source. The parents, including the boy’s 47-year-old father,...

5. Terrorism threat in Hong Kong ‘moderate’ amid Middle East war: security chief

   Hong Kong’s terrorism threat level remains moderate amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the city’s security chief has said, urging residents to stay vigilant in the globally connected city. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said on Sunday there was no intelligence suggesting an imminent attack, but Hong Kong needed to “be prepared”, urging the public to report anything...

6. Indonesia’s Prabowo ‘surprised’ by Iran war, says US bombing won’t spark regime change

   Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said he was “pretty surprised” by the US-Israel war on Iran, adding that he did not see any “rationality” in the military campaign. Prabowo, a retired general who now heads the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, said in an interview that Iran recently told him they were wary of entering into negotiations with the US to stop the war because they felt...

7. New signalling system launches smoothly despite minor glitches on MTR’s Tsuen Wan line

   Some trains were misaligned with the platform screen doors on the MTR’s Tsuen Wan line on the first day a new signalling system was implemented in Hong Kong, but such teething problems were rare in a launch that went largely according to plan. The MTR Corporation said on Sunday overall operations had been “smooth” following the departure of the first train at 6am, despite some “isolated”...

8. Iran war exposes fragility of Gulf-Asia supply chains

   Since the Iran war began late last month, it has threatened shipping across the Middle East’s two most important maritime chokepoints – the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb – through which much of Asia’s energy imports and manufactured exports flow. For Gulf states and their major trading partners in Asia, the conflict is forcing a hard question: what, if anything, can protect supply...

9. Beyond a ‘buffer zone’: how the Iran war is recalibrating Central Asian ties

   Central Asian governments are leveraging the diplomatic fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran to assert their autonomy and reinforce their long-standing strategy of balancing major powers, according to analysts. For decades, the five former Soviet republics have been seen as Russia’s “backyard”. However, as the conflict in Iran deepens, these nations are moving to recalibrate their geopolitical...

10. China pet shop owner finds dumped cat with touching note and cash from elderly facing surgery

    A pet shop owner from southwestern China discovered an abandoned cat with a note and cash, uncovering an elderly person’s final, loving gesture for their pet. On March 7, the woman surnamed Sun, who runs a pet shop in Chuxiong, Yunnan province, found a grey pet carrier outside her shop. Hearing a kitten meowing, she opened it to find a tabby cat surrounded by cat food. “I was furious, thinking...