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Marco Tapia was killed when the wrong address was targeted in a botched organised-crime shooting. A gun found at the scene has been linked to four Melburnians.

Download the PDF This is the second part of a Factsheet series on Hong Kong’s debut five-year plan and the 2026 policy address. Click here for part one. The series was produced with support from the Hong Kong SAR government. To see the South China Morning Post’s coverage of the five-year plan, click here. This Factsheet will be available in the SCMP print edition on September 21. You can find it at newsstands and convenience stores. For any inquiries, contact [email protected].

Download the PDF This is the first part of a Factsheet series on Hong Kong’s debut five-year plan and the 2026 policy address. Click here for part two. The series was produced with support from the Hong Kong SAR government. To see the South China Morning Post’s coverage of the five-year plan, click here. This Factsheet will be available in the SCMP print edition on September 21. You can find it at newsstands and convenience stores. For any inquiries, contact [email protected].

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Hong Kong is preparing for many more electric vehicles on its roads. The city’s First Five-Year Plan, announced alongside the Policy Address, calls for the steady electrification of vehicles and safe, efficient charging networks, with around 10,000 fast chargers expected by 2035 to support about 500,000 EVs. That longer-term target follows an updated EV roadmap released in February, which calls for fast chargers to...

Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are heading towards an immigration election. This is how we got here.

Four people arrested in Victoria will be extradited to New South Wales to be charged over two contract shootings in Sydney earlier this month.

For 18 years, Ben Crawford believed his mother died changing a tyre. Then he unpicked his father’s deadly lie.

At the heart of Hong Kong’s first five-year plan lies the Northern Metropolis – a massive tract of land spanning roughly a third of our entire city. Much ink has been spilled over what this project represents and why it matters, but if I had to summarise it in a single sentence, I would call it the “Shenzhen of Hong Kong”. To me, Shenzhen stands as the most miraculous growth story on Earth. Forty-eight years ago, it was a sleepy fishing village with a single muddy main road and just tens of...

At the heart of Hong Kong’s first five-year plan lies the Northern Metropolis – a massive tract of land spanning roughly a third of our entire city. Much ink has been spilled over what this project represents and why it matters, but if I had to summarise it in a single sentence, I would call it the “Shenzhen of Hong Kong”. To me, Shenzhen stands as the most miraculous growth story on Earth. Forty-eight years ago, it was a sleepy fishing village with a single muddy main road and just tens of...

Nirmeen Noufl has been sentenced after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the basis her husband was abusive and had attacked her.

“If you’re explaining, you’re losing,” Ronald Reagan is credited with saying. Silicon Valley disagrees, led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

This is the second part of a Factsheet series on Hong Kong’s debut five-year plan and the 2026 policy address, click here for part one. The series was produced with support from the Hong Kong SAR government. To see the South China Morning Post’s coverage of the five-year plan, click here. This Factsheet will be available in the SCMP print edition on September 21. You can find it at newsstands and convenience stores. For any inquiries, contact [email protected].

Nestled between the Tianshan Mountains and the Gobi Desert, the Hami oasis in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is a land of little rain, battered by wind and sand year-round. It is also home to the region’s oldest known burial site, the Tianshanbeilu cemetery, located around 500km (310 miles) east of Urumqi, the regional capital. More than 700 Bronze Age tombs have been unearthed here, long assumed to belong to Eurasian nomads who migrated eastward from the steppes. But a study published on...

This is the first part of a Factsheet series on Hong Kong’s debut five-year plan and the 2026 policy address, click here for part two. The series was produced with support from the Hong Kong SAR government. To see the South China Morning Post’s coverage of the five-year plan, click here. This Factsheet will be available in the SCMP print edition on September 21. You can find it at newsstands and convenience stores. For any inquiries, contact [email protected].

Falling oil prices and easing pressure from the bond market helped Wall Street jump higher.

Hong Kong police will establish a high level of security for this weekend’s state funeral of the city’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, including guarding the three top Beijing officials attending the event, the South China Morning Post has learned. However, the original public memorial service will instead be limited to invitation-only due to venue constraints, the Office of Former Chief Executives announced on Thursday. A command centre would be set up at the police headquarters in Wan...

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said Thursday he would "absolutely sign" a statewide data center moratorium if brought to his desk, joining other governors and elected officials calling for a freeze on developing new data centers. "If the statewide moratorium bill lands on your desk in 2027, would you sign it?" Punchbowl News's Mikenzie Frost...

The 18-year-old Queensland man was also charged with possessing child abuse material.

Joanna Wietrzyk issued a statement on her personal Instagram page to address the situation that unravelled after her race in Beijing.

Chen Youlin, a Chinese-American scientist, travelled back to China in October 2024 for a month-long holiday, including to celebrate his mother’s 80th birthday. As he prepared to leave, authorities arrested him at the airport in Beijing. For more than 670 days, his wife, Rong Yufang, and other family members have not been able to see or speak with him. “Sometimes I realise I can no longer clearly remember the sound of his voice, and that breaks my heart,” Rong told the South China Morning Post....

The woman accused of being behind the wheel of an SUV in a deadly crash involving a Metro bus was charged with two counts of murder Thursday, as families and friends mourn the victims of the crash and a subsequent helicopter crash that killed three others.

US Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer asked Brazil to review the sale of Anglo American’s nickel mines to a Chinese state-controlled miner in exchange for tariff relief, two people familiar with the negotiations told the South China Morning Post. Washington made the request during talks to lift the 50 per cent tariffs US President Donald Trump imposed on Brazilian goods last year. First reported by Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo and CNN Brazil on Thursday, the proposal would...

Property owners on Sydney’s upper north shore could be cut off from their own land if the proposal goes ahead in its current form, council staff warned.

Anthony Albanese is heading the United States today aiming to push Australia's policies on global technology.

Fiji has declared a national health emergency as HIV case numbers surge.

Ventura County firefighters rescued a black and white kitten from the clutches of an entertainment center and the internet went gaga.

An LAPD search warrant affidavit revealed that Beverly Hills police are investigating whether OnlyFans model Adva Lavie drugged her onetime fiancé Steve Cloobeck with ketamine.

A cryptocurrency regulation bill appears to have little momentum left in the Senate after it came up short in a floor vote Tuesday, with the industry now turning its attention to Trump administration regulators to set the rules of the road. The Clarity Act failed to secure enough support to clear a procedural hurdle Tuesday...

A cryptocurrency regulation bill appears to have little momentum left in the Senate after it came up short in a floor vote Tuesday, with the industry now turning its attention to Trump administration regulators to set the rules of the road. The Clarity Act failed to secure enough support to clear a procedural hurdle Tuesday...

More explosive claims are being made about how King Charles acted in the days after Diana's death.

OpenAI has revealed multiple new cases of unexpected or concerning behaviour in its models.

More than six months into the Iran war, national fuel prices here in Australia are up to near record levels.

New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland (D) on Thursday backed a moratorium on the construction of data centers in her state, citing environmental and workforce-related concerns. In a policy framework on her website, Haaland backed “open, transparent, and meaningful” conversations within communities about the impacts of AI data centers. She also called for requiring data...

New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland (D) on Thursday backed a moratorium on the construction of data centers in her state, citing environmental and workforce-related concerns. In a policy framework on her website, Haaland backed “open, transparent, and meaningful” conversations within communities about the impacts of AI data centers. She also called for requiring data...

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers called for the suspension of state and federal gas taxes on Thursday to provide relief to working families facing high pump prices.

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) blocked Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) Thursday effort to unanimously pass a bill that seeks to force states to consider making tech companies cover their data centers’ electricity price impacts. The New Mexico Democrat blocked the Ohio Republican’s effort to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act through unanimous consent, arguing that the bill...

The green light for the new set of trials comes a month out from the targeted opening date for the final section of Sydney’s $30 billion M1 metro line.

Australian workers are walking away from six-figure salaries and the corporate ladder, trading heavy mental loads for lower-paying, lower-stress lifestyles.