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1. What do travellers need to know when Hong Kong airport’s Terminal 2 opens?

   The Hong Kong airport’s long-awaited reopening of Terminal 2 will begin later this month, with several airlines set to relocate their check-in operations from Terminal 1 as part of expansion plans linked to the three-runway system. The phased move, starting on May 27, will mainly involve regional and low-cost carriers, including HK Express and AirAsia group airlines. Terminal 2 was reconfigured...

2. Buyers flock to SHKP project in New Territories as confidence grows in home market outlook

   Hundreds of prospective buyers gravitated to a Sun Hung Kai Properties’ (SHKP’s) project in the New Territories on Saturday, keen to view the 121 flats on offer in a fresh sign that Hong Kong’s home market is on a sustained upwards cycle despite risk caution. As of 2pm, more than 80 per cent of the homes at Lime Spark in Tsuen Wan had found buyers, while some bullish investors offered to buy...

3. China school slammed for invading privacy with pupil survey asking if parents’ work is ‘smelly’ or ‘noisy’

   A primary school in China sparked controversy for letting its pupils fill in a detailed questionnaire about their parents’ work. The survey, titled Observation List of Parents’ Occupation, was distributed to pupils at the beginning of May at Huatai Primary School in Tianmen, central Hubei province, Zonglan News reported. The questions regarding their parents’ work coincided with the May Day...

4. Hong Kong police officer fires service pistol by mistake at Kai Tak headquarters

   A Hong Kong police officer accidentally fired a single round from her service firearm on Saturday morning, with no injuries reported. The force said the incident occurred at the Kai Tak police headquarters at around 7.10am, when the officer was loading her semi-automatic pistol in a designated loading area on Concorde Road. The officer is attached to the tactical unit of the force’s Kowloon East...

5. How Trump’s China visit may hint the ‘2 eyes of the world’ are learning to live together

   It is hard not to be impressed by the sheer energy Donald Trump displayed during his whirlwind visit to Beijing. Within just 43 hours, the 79-year-old president held two meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping, inspected troops, attended a state banquet and walked around the Temple of Heaven in sweltering heat – not to mention making his characteristic social media postings in the wee hours...

6. Singapore minister reveals why human touch still important in AI era

   Even as Singapore positions itself at the frontier of AI technology, human intelligence still remains critical, according to the city state’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan. “We should beware of just trying to throw every problem, and every step in a solution, at a large-language model (LLM),” he said on Saturday at the AI Engineer conference, referring to deep-learning technology behind...

7. Tech features at Hong Kong’s Terminal 2 to enable efficient departures: transport chief

   Hong Kong is counting down to the “milestone” launch of the reconfigured second terminal at the airport on May 27, which will feature technology-led services to ease bottlenecks, the city’s transport minister has said. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said on Saturday that Terminal 2 was ready to serve travellers, highlighting new technologies from hardware to software that would...

8. 2 Hong Kong tourists killed, 2 injured in New Zealand car crash

   Two Hong Kong tourists have been killed and two others injured in a car crash in New Zealand. The Chinese consulate in Christchurch revealed the fatal crash on Saturday, saying it occurred a day earlier. “According to a New Zealand police report, a serious traffic accident occurred on the afternoon of May 15 near the intersection of North Rakaia Road and State Highway 1 in the Selwyn District on...

9. Bangladesh tests its India ties by seeking China’s aid for Teesta River

   Every dry season, the Teesta River shrinks a little more – and with it, the livelihoods of millions of Bangladeshis who depend on its waters to survive. Dhaka has been asking India to help for years. Now, it is asking Beijing instead. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, who took office in February, formally asked China earlier this month to help with its Teesta River restoration project,...

10. Hong Kong parents warned of injury and choking risks from catapult and tangram toys

    A catapult toy and a tangram set could pose injury and choking risks to children, Hong Kong customs has warned, urging retailers to pull the products from shelves. The Customs and Excise Department said on Saturday that it had seized 700 units of the toys during an operation and issued a prohibition notice banning their sale. The action followed an earlier safety test on various toys bought at...