
Styrofoam no match for Hong Kong robot that collects marine rubbish
[South China Morning Post] - 03/9/2025
PolyU engineers invented Galatea the robot after Sai Kung club sought help to solve marine trash problem.
In Chinese newspapers
Hong Kong homebuyers deliver brisk weekend sales for developers, as small flats favoured
Strong results for Sun Hung Kai Properties and Henderson Land show improving sentiment after a stamp-duty cut, (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Hong Kong Observatory predicts warmer, drier spring than usual
‘Along with forecasts from global climate models, it is expected that the temperature throughout spring will be (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza
Full effects of move are not immediately clear but Gaza’s desalination plants receive power from Israel for (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Hong Kong’s finance chief eyes I&T development after calls at ‘two sessions’
Paul Chan says city needs to make better use of status as financial hub to attract tech sector dollars, while vowing (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
China’s January-February CPI falls 0.1% days after annual inflation control target lowered
February consumer inflation fell 0.7 per cent year on year, while prices at the factory gate were down 2.2 per cent.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood says Web3 is on track as finance firms move in
Wood’s newer project Polkadot is focused on scaling decentralised applications, with many developers coming from China.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
China shop boss discovers he was adopted in family row, real sister lives 500 metres away
Adoptive mother reveals truth about 34-year secret in fit of anger, shocked business owner embarks on eventually (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
At this year’s ‘two sessions’ in Beijing, AI seems to be on everyone’s lips
The emerging technology has dominated talking points and media coverage of the annual political event.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
Malaysian housewives cook up digital gold – with love, labour and live-streams
More of Malaysia’s housewives are doubling up as content creators to earn a living with videos that have drawn a (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
‘Build a life here’: NPC deputies pitch Taiwanese on mainland China opportunities
In integration push, National People’s Congress told that island’s youth, business leaders should visit the mainland (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025
China to give gig workers and training a lift to keep lid on unemployment
Social security minister says some positions are going unfilled as demand for skills goes unmet.
[South China Morning Post] - 9/03/2025