The annual Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival later this month promises more booths and longer hours to help attract over 168,000 visitors. The South China Morning Post unpacks what is on offer so you can enjoy the event to the fullest. 1. What is the festival and when is it open? Organised by the Tourism Board under the theme “Taste the World’s Best,” the festival will be held from October 29 to November 1 at the Central Harbourfront, opening at 7.30pm on the first day and 1pm on the following...

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Flagship Minerals has sweetened the terms of its high-grade Rosario copper project acquisition in Chile, extending its option and halving the final payment to US$1 million.

South-east Queensland is bracing for another deluge after an unexpected downpour brought chaos across the region.

Police were called to the office after a woman allegedly behaved in a threatening manner towards staff.

A woman and her five-year-old daughter have been found dead outside a high-rise building in Melbourne’s east.

The former NSW police officer mimicked firing a gun as he told a friend that he had killed two people, a court has heard.

NextDC boss Craig Scroggie has been very public about his extreme diet and exercise regime.

The federal government has made a formal offer to the European Space Agency to send Katherine Bennell-Pegg to space.

Severe haze in Hong Kong over the past two days has prompted a government warning of serious health risks, with experts urging the elderly and vulnerable to stay indoors until sunset. Air quality health risk levels at some of Hong Kong’s roadside monitoring stations rose on Wednesday and Thursday, with experts attributing the surge to elevated ozone levels caused by sunlight and high temperatures and warning that conditions were likely to persist over the next few days. On Wednesday afternoon,...

Nic Maddinson's struggles end off the bowling of Marco Jansen.

The bodies of a 38-year-old woman and the girl were found outside an apartment building in Box Hill on Thursday.

Amanda Camm insisted the decision to step down was due to her health, but it followed a spate of highly publicised incidents.

This year has opened a rare window of relative calm in global commerce. On October 8, the World Trade Organization doubled its forecast for global goods trade growth, from 1.9 to 3.9 per cent. The easing of US-China and Europe-China tensions has given open economies some breathing space. Hong Kong has seized the moment. Its exports rose 42.5 per cent year on year in the first eight months of 2026, with figures from August alone up 53 per cent, driven largely by AI-related equipment and...

The studio behind Baldur’s Gate, Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect is shutting down; a sad end for a developer that once seemed to have a magic touch with RPGs.

From catching flying fruit on the campaign trail to board level racecourse politics, the PR powerhouse holds back little over lunch.

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Golden Dragon has kicked off drilling on a 3km-long gold anomaly at its Cue project in WA’s Murchison, following auger results that appear to link four prospects.

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In author and computer engineer Liu Cixin’s science fiction hit The Three-Body Problem, three suns throw a doomed world into chaos. Chinese astronomers say they have found a real three-star system that is far better behaved. Using FAST, the world’s biggest single-dish radio telescope in southwestern China, the researchers found two dead stars and a “living” one locked in a steady cosmic dance about 7,000 light years from Earth. One of the dead stars is a pulsar that spins more than 300 times a...

Jacaranda trees are turning parks and streets purple across Sydney, sparking a frenzied rush of photographers and weddings.

Fresh Hong Kong graduates are increasingly feeling the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) as they enter the workforce, human resources experts have said, after a survey found the starting salaries for degree holders and sub-degree graduates had narrowed. The results of the latest annual survey by Baptist University found the disparity between the starting salaries of bachelor’s degree and sub-degree graduates narrowed by 17 per cent, or HK$500 (US$63.70), from HK$3,000 last year to HK$2,500...

The Australian sharemarket has opened lower after AI stocks tumbled on Wall Street, while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran.

A Killara man was arrested after his home was raided by heavily armed tactical police on Thursday.

Kelly’s Law has passed parliament which will disqualify the licences of people facing dangerous driving charges.

Winds that topped 50 mph whipped through a San Clemente golf course Wednesday, leaving behind a trail of tree carcasses.

Los Angeles County prosecutors will not file criminal charges against a man who punched a self-described "MAGA influencer" earlier this year. David Vulin, who was out with his infant son and husband in West Hollywood, reacted after the streamer suggested gay men were likely to molest their children.

The Asia Society announced on Thursday that it had marked out territory on the Washington policy landscape with the purchase of a US$17.5 million building that will give it a permanent spot alongside other US capital think tanks dating back more than a century, striving for influence. The 70-year-old institution, founded by the grandson of oil mogul John D. Rockefeller, has focused more on public policy in recent years, in addition to its traditional focus on arts, culture and education, under...

The world’s first major trial of a personalised therapeutic cancer vaccine has been hailed a ‘foundational shift’ in how we research and treat cancer.

Heavily armed tactical police swarmed the property on Thursday morning.