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1. ‘Overwhelming’: Hong Kong’s dog-friendly restaurant scheme twice oversubscribed

   A licensing scheme allowing dogs in Hong Kong restaurants has attracted an “overwhelming” 2,100 applications, more than double the 1,000-place quota allocated, according to food hygiene authorities. In response to inquiries from the South China Morning Post, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said on Monday that it had received more than 2,100 applications by 12pm, the last day...

2. China’s EV giants challenge Tesla in race to commercialise humanoid robots

   Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers are opening a new front in their battle with Tesla: humanoid robots. After spending years competing on electric cars and autonomous driving technology, leading Chinese manufacturers including BYD and Xpeng are now accelerating plans to mass-produce humanoid robots, betting that advances in artificial intelligence will unlock a vast new market beyond...

3. Why Hong Kong matters to Kazakhstan’s financial ambitions

   As part of its decades-old “multi-vector” foreign policy, based on balancing relations between major powers such as China, Russia, the United States and the European Union, Kazakhstan – Central Asia’s largest country – is now actively diversifying its economic and financial policies. While in the past, Astana sought to strengthen cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the leading...

4. NWD tests market with 28 Pavilia Rosa flats for sale amid Hang Seng slump

   Hong Kong developer New World Development (NWD) is making 28 units of its Pavilia Rosa project in Kowloon Tong available to buyers on Friday, a test of sentiment and demand in the city’s residential property market amid a slumping Hang Seng Index. NWD said the flats would be sold via a regular price list on a “first come, first served” basis as the developer announced that the project had so far...

5. Worker dies after falling from building under construction in Hong Kong

   A worker died on Monday afternoon after falling from a building under construction at a public housing site in Hong Kong. Police said they received a report at 2.25pm from a staff member at the Yan Po Road site in Tuen Mun that a 33-year-old man had fallen about 44 metres (144 feet) from a building under construction and was found unconscious. He was rushed to Tuen Mun Hospital but was certified...

6. Taiwan hits back at Beijing’s ‘cognitive warfare’ after coastguard patrols

   Taiwan has accused Beijing of escalating tensions after mainland Chinese coastguard and survey vessels carried out law-enforcement operations in waters off the island’s east coast. Over the weekend, mainland China’s transport ministry announced a “special maritime traffic law enforcement operation” and dispatched a flotilla of coastguard vessels into the waters east of Taiwan. That included the...

7. China’s C919 jet poised to tackle ageing domestic fleet: industry official

   China’s massive civil aviation fleet is ageing faster than planes are being replaced, threatening to saddle airlines with higher costs, but orders for home-grown C919 jets could help stem the tide, according to the head of north Asia for the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Current aircraft replacements are failing to reach 2019 levels despite recent orders of Airbus and Boeing...

8. Hong Kong Observatory issues black rainstorm warning

   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 issued a black rainstorm warning on Monday evening, the first of the year, with a trough of low pressure expected to bring heavy rainfall in the coming 24 hours. The upgrade to the top-tier warning came 45 minutes after the...

9. Hong Kong data centres outpace global average for carbon footprint: UN study

   Hong Kong ranks among the world’s largest data centre hubs but has a carbon footprint exceeding the global average, according to a global think tank study, which calls for a responsible strategy to tackle the “unintended impacts” of using artificial intelligence (AI). The June report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health also quantified not only carbon but...

10. WHO chief visits Ebola-hit Uganda after virus spreads from DRC

    The head of the World Health Organization on Monday visited Uganda, where a deadly Ebola outbreak has killed two people after spreading from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The WHO has declared an international health emergency over the current outbreak, which was announced on May 15 in the northeastern DRC. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently also...