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1. Jensen Huang celebrates Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai

   Jensen Huang marked the coming Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai on Saturday, as the CEO of the world’s most valuable company made his first trip to China in 2026 amid uncertainties around its H200 graphics processing unit (GPU). Huang received a rock-star welcome when he joined Nvidia’s annual Lunar New Year celebration, according to two employees who asked not to be named as...

2. 65-year-old Hong Kong woman dies after taxi overturns in early morning crash

   A 65-year-old Hong Kong woman has died after being trapped inside a taxi that crashed into a private car and overturned early on Sunday, police have said. A subsequent investigation by the force led to the arrest of the driver and passenger of the car involved in the collision in Pat Heung. They were suspected of possessing offensive weapons after officers found a knife and an extendable baton...

3. Chinese boy saves US$28 for 6 months to buy mum birthday gift, touches shop owner

   A Chinese primary school boy saved his pocket money for half a year, accumulating one yuan at a time (14 US cents), to buy his mother a pair of shoes as a birthday gift, touching both the shop owner and millions of netizens. The 11-year-old boy from Hebei province in northern China entered a shoe shop with a stack of one-yuan notes in his hands, asking to purchase a pair of shoes for his...

4. How Johor-Singapore SEZ is delivering for businesses a year on

   As a Singaporean urban farming company in the land-scarce city state, Archisen found itself in need of more land, ready talent and lower costs of production that would allow it to access the local market. The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) has provided an attractive solution, according to chief executive Vincent Wei. The economic zone, the world’s first involving two countries,...

5. Crowds on lower decks of Hong Kong buses on first day of mandatory seat belt rule

   Many passengers crowded the lower decks of Hong Kong buses on Sunday out of concern that they would not be able to unbuckle their seat belts in time to alight on the first day of the new rule's implementation. A Post reporter and lawmaker Mark Chong Ho-fung took trips on two of the busiest routes in Tuen Mun and found passengers crowding the lower decks of one of the buses, with some residents...

6. Singapore Exchange hints at deeper ties with HKEX: can yuan business open doors?

   Singapore Exchange (SGX) Group is seeking to widen its cross-listing schemes with Shanghai and Shenzhen and explore partnerships with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) and other exchanges, according to its CEO. “Connectivity, in my view, is the new architecture for capital markets,” said Loh Boon Chye in an exclusive interview with the Post during his visit to Shenzhen last week. “We look...

7. Cathay flights from Hong Kong to the US cancelled ahead of monster winter storm

   Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has cancelled at least four flights to the United States on Sunday ahead of the arrival of a monster winter storm, with more passengers expected to be affected on Monday. Cathay stopped short of revealing the exact number of flights affected, saying only that it was “making a number of cancellations” to services between Hong Kong and the US from...

8. Xibei vs the influencer: why Beijing called time on a Chinese restaurant food feud

   After a months-long war of words between an online influencer and a restaurant chain owner, a Communist Party mouthpiece has taken the unusual step of direct intervention – underlining China’s desire to rein in internet celebrities and social media platforms. Since Sunday, People’s Daily has published four commentaries about the restaurant chain Xibei, which says it expects to lose 500 million...

9. Did a shelved anti-disaster scheme lead to Philippines’ corrupted flood control projects?

   The Philippines is reviving a popular disaster monitoring and simulation programme that was defunded nine years ago by then president Rodrigo Duterte – a move that some have blamed for resulting in a swathe of corrupted construction projects now plaguing the country. Last month, Congress said it would allot 1 billion pesos (US$16.9 million) in the 2026 General Appropriations Bill for the...

10. Hong Kong authorities find toxins in 4 batches of milk formula recalled by Nestlé

    Hong Kong authorities have discovered traces of a toxin in four batches of baby milk formula products previously recalled by Nestlé. In a statement issued on Saturday evening, the Centre for Food Safety said the Swiss food giant had recalled about 96,000 tins of affected products due to the possible presence of cereulide, a toxin produced by Bacillus cereus, found in the ingredients. The centre...