New HK$122 million lifeguard outsourcing contract sparks public spending concerns

Months before the Imperial Japanese Navy surprise attacked Hawaii, Qantas would take delivery of its first Catalina PBY boat planes on the island.

Curtin University vice chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne expressed deep concern about the merger and said the institution is planning to oppose the proposal.

A woman has been questioned in court whether sending an emoji meant she left “the possibility open” for boundaries to be broken.

Locals have accused council of ignoring the concerns of residents after the release of a new master plan for a redevelopment in Liverpool.

Hong Kong biotech entrepreneur Ricky Chiu Yin-to is seeking to make cervical cancer screening easier through urine-based HPV testing, using sample-concentration technology developed by his company. His company, Phase Scientific, made its name during the Covid-19 pandemic through its rapid antigen test, Indicaid. The product received US emergency-use authorisation in July 2021, was used in Hong Kong community testing and sold in more than 30 countries. At the start of the pandemic, the firm...

The man, in his 30s, was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition on Saturday but died overnight.

The man, in his 30s, was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition on Saturday but died overnight.

A non-profit children’s education organisation in Hong Kong has urged the government to expand support services for preschool-aged ethnic minority children with special needs to more districts, after a pilot project found that 95 per cent of participants showed improvement. Heep Hong Society said on Sunday that many ethnic minority families faced multiple barriers when seeking support for children with special educational needs (SEN), including language difficulties, financial constraints and...

A year ago, a Unitree robot kickboxing could light up social media. When DeepSeek released its latest open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, developers around the world rushed to test it. This year, however, Hangzhou’s latest technology bets have barely made a ripple. The city’s “New Eight Steeds” – eight deep-tech companies in fields ranging from smart glasses and inference graphic processing units (GPUs) to compute-in-memory chips and space computing – are a very different proposition...

The event will show just how serious Apple is about making a push into the smart home market.

The coastal flooding that damaged homes and flooded roads this week from Newport Beach to Long Beach came from a highly unusual combination of events that underscores the challenges California is facing amid predictions of a "super" El Nino winter.