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Artificial intelligence-powered glasses can act as tour guides, snap photos hands-free and translate foreign languages. The devices also sell at relatively affordable prices in China. But are they the perfect travel companion? Not yet. AI glasses were slowly catching on with travellers as the techno
Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department will launch three new AI-assisted drone technologies to strengthen fire detection and its response to heightened risks during tomb-sweeping activities ahead of the Chung Yeung Festival on Sunday. Wong Tak-fai, acting divisional officer for information and communi
Two rush-hour disruptions at Hong Kong’s MTR Lam Tin station within 15 hours could be connected if they involved the same power supply circuit or exposed procedural shortcomings, an engineering expert has said, with a lawmaker urging the rail operator to offer more targeted compensation to affected
Anyone who has spent time on the internet researching goods and doing lengthy price comparisons will be intrigued by developments in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for agentic commerce. This new form of online shopping involves AI-powered agents – autonomous software systems that use reason
Hong Kong firefighters have received over 200 reports of people trapped in lifts and falsely triggered fire alarms after a sudden drop in voltage along a Kowloon power supply line on Tuesday afternoon. The Fire Services Department (FSD) said it had handled 179 cases of lift entrapment and 39 false a
Hong Kong police have stepped up their investigation into the disappearance of the ashes of late Cantopop diva Anita Mui Yim-fong by committing more resources and manpower to the case. Mui’s family had revealed over the weekend that the urn containing the singer’s remains was discovered to be missin
Hong Kong police have launched an artificial intelligence-powered national security education platform for pupils. The NSmarties AI Interactive Platform was officially launched last week at a ceremony at Precious Blood Primary School in Ap Lei Chau, with about 700 pupils attending, police said in a
China has begun building the world’s first utility-scale power plant combining two emerging technologies: supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) generation and large-scale molten salt energy storage. The Ruitan project, under construction at a coal-fired power station in Yantai in eastern China’s Shando
China’s investment banks spent decades trying to emulate Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street powerhouse that became a benchmark for the country’s financial ambitions and whose alumni included senior US policymakers like former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson. Today, Beijing’s goal has evolved beyond bui
Nominations have opened for the powerful electoral body that chooses both Hong Kong’s top leader and almost half of the territory’s lawmakers. The nomination period for 982 seats on the 1,500-member Election Committee opened on Wednesday and will run until October 20. If the number of approved
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Against a backdrop of persistent geopolitical uncertainties, global energy price trends and energy security have returned firmly to the spotlight. Taking place in Hong Kong late this month, the International Gas Union (IGU)
Beijing’s push to accumulate gold serves a larger goal: yuan internationalisation. In this series, Part I traces China’s path to becoming a gold superpower, while this article explores Hong Kong’s key role in safeguarding the nation’s financial security. In 2013, one-third of the world’s traded gold
大數據服務商聯洋智能與準投資方，即由的尚本堂整全科研行政總裁及科德施基因的營銷總監劉慧儀，及身兼大律師及事務律師的黃世傑合組的Power Circles（PC），簽訂補充諒解備忘錄。PC將原定認購聯洋智能的每股定價，由原先的0.25028元，調高至0.37736元；認購股數將由原來逾3.19億股，縮減至2.12億股。總作價同為8000萬元。原先的投資者PC，將轉為同由劉、黃組成的PC Dynamic Holdings（PDH）。完成入股後PDH的持股量一躍至66.55%，並按例要提出全面收購，及擬向證監會申請豁免全面收購。
Beijing has tightened scrutiny of quantitative trading funds in recent months amid fears they add to market instability. Yet a leading investor believes the future is bright for China’s quant funds, as they are “necessary for a developed economy”. Seth Huang, the head of Aris Capital, said quant fun
Two decades after stepping away from the spotlight, iconic actress Joey Wong made an unexpected return to the screen – not through a traditional production, but via artificial intelligence-powered reconstruction. In a two-minute video by NetEase this summer, Wong, one of the most well-known actresse
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Artificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from an emerging technology into a cornerstone of Hong Kong's economic transformation strategy. Under the Government's AI+ initiative, further reinforced by the First Five-Year Pla
Two power outages hit Hong Kong’s Ho Man Tin, the first lasting more than four hours overnight into Thursday, disrupting hotel operations and about 1,000 households. CLP Power, which supplies electricity to Kowloon and the New Territories, said equipment near Waterloo Road in Kowloon first malfuncti
China’s corporate sector remains considerably weaker than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, but the country is emerging as a key beneficiary of the global artificial intelligence boom thanks to its ample power capacity, according to a Natixis survey of thousands of firms and a separate research r
Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation at its new support services centre to handle laundry processing and meal production for public hospitals, aiming to boost efficiency and worker safety. The six-storey, 62,000-square-metre centre, which
Competition between China and the US will persist, but increased dialogue between the two economic superpowers will provide greater global certainty and ease geopolitical concerns, with Hong Kong positioned to play a unique role, the city’s financial secretary has told the South China Morning Post.
HK Electric customers are set to pay less for electricity in October after the Hong Kong supplier cut its fuel charge for the first time in four months, but it warned that international energy prices remained volatile. CLP Power, the city’s other electricity supplier, will raise its energy prices ne
A former pro-democracy district councillor has become the latest among those jailed in the landmark “Hong Kong 47” national security case to be released from prison, after spending five years and seven months behind bars for conspiracy to subvert state power. Ng Kin-wai, an ex-local coun
Xi Jinping told Donald Trump on Thursday that Beijing and Washington must peacefully manage their superpower rivalry, as the US president gave his Chinese counterpart a lavish welcome to the White House. While Trump hailed their “truly great friendship” on a day of sweeping pomp and circ
A planned supercomputing hub at the Northern Metropolis megadevelopment in Hong Kong’s border area will start phased operations earlier than expected in mid-2027, according to electricity supplier CLP Power. The power supplier added that it had sufficient capacity to support the energy demands equiv
Record-breaking heat, devastating droughts, deadly wildfires and heavy rain and severe floods around the world over recent months have sparked a new urgency in the search for practical solutions to climate change. The challenge for governments is not only to generate cleaner sources of power, but al
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Hong Kong is asking for more computing power and for the electricity to stay clean and steady while it arrives. That was the bind put to regional utility executives on September 15 by Joseph Law, president of AESIEAP and man
Hong Kong’s workforce is forecast to shrink by around 20,000 a year until 2028 despite measures to import labour and talent, with shortages remaining most acute among skilled technical workers. A government report on manpower projections on Tuesday found that although the labour shortfall would narr