Monthly minimum wage of Hong Kong foreign domestic helpers up 2.2% to HK$5,100 Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong will have their monthly minimum salary increased by 2.2 per cent to HK$5,100 (US$655), for employment contracts signed on or after Tuesday, the government has announced. But the monthly food allowance will remain unchanged at no less than HK$1,236 if their employers choose not to provide free food, it added on Monday. The announcement came after a local employers’ group earlier called for a freeze on the minimum salaries of foreign domestic helpers amid the... image
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Hong Kong increases domestic helpers’ monthly minimum wage by 2.2% to HK$5,100
Monthly minimum food allowance remains unchanged at HK$1,236, government says.
New Demon Slayer animated film sets record with HK$89 million in Hong Kong Japan’s manga adaptation Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle has become the highest-grossing animated film in Hong Kong’s history, surpassing Toy Story 3’s record set in 2010, according to a firm that tracks cinema bookings. The movie broke the animated film box office record as of 2pm with accumulated earnings of HK$89.42 million, the Hong Kong Box Office said on Monday. It surpassed Pixar’s Toy Story 3, which raked in HK$89.36 million 15 years ago. Released in Hong Kong on August... image
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New Demon Slayer animated film sets record with HK$89 million in Hong Kong
Latest Japanese manga adaptation surpasses Pixar’s Toy Story 3, which raked in HK$89.36 million 15 years ago.
Consumers will decide the course of the US-China tech rivalry Regardless of how trade talks go, the US-China tech rivalry isn’t going away. From each side’s perspective, maintaining a lead in futuristic technologies matters significantly for economic growth and national power. Now, we’re entering round two. The first round was mostly defined by US export controls aimed at slowing China’s development of advanced technologies. These measures might have delayed Chinese progress, but they didn’t stop it. As China gradually catches up in chips and artificial... image
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Opinion | Consumers will decide the course of the US-China tech rivalry
As Washington and Beijing aim to weaken the other side’s tech ecosystem, both are vying for dominance in the global marketplace.
When Typhoon Wanda wreaked havoc on Hong Kong in 1962 – SCMP archive As Hong Hong deals with the aftermath of Super Typhoon Ragasa, we take a look at SCMP’s coverage of some of the worst storms the city has experienced. Click here to read more. Hong Kong’s day of terror This article was first published on September 2, 1962 Typhoon Wanda, with winds of up to 162 miles an hour, smashed its way through Hong Kong yesterday and in eight hours of terror, killed or injured hundreds, rendered nearly 20,000 homeless, and left behind it a trial of destruction such as the... image
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On This Day | When Typhoon Wanda wreaked havoc on Hong Kong in 1962 – SCMP archive
On September 1, 1962, Hong Kong experienced one of its deadliest typhoons, which killed 130 people and left 52 missing.
Hong Kong police arrest 18 over laundering HK$66 million in crime proceeds Hong Kong police have arrested 18 people for allegedly laundering HK$66 million (US$8.5 million) in crime proceeds as part of a crackdown on a syndicate suspected of operating from hotel rooms across the city to process the money using stooge bank accounts. The force said on Friday that the arrestees included four people suspected of acting as leading or core members, as well as 14 alleged stooge bank account holders. The group was arrested over the past two days. “Our investigation shows that... image
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Hong Kong police arrest 18 over laundering HK$66 million in crime proceeds
Police say syndicate members suspected of coordinating money laundering activities from hotel rooms across city to cover their tracks.
China warns terrorists could use AI to create and fire their own weapons China has warned that artificial intelligence will allow people to learn how to make their own world-destroying weapons, such as nuclear missiles and biological and chemical weapons. The real-world risk – “loss of control over knowledge and capabilities of nuclear, biological, chemical and missile weapons” – was put forward in an AI safety governance document China unveiled on Monday. It updates the country’s first AI safety governance document that was made public last year. Both documents are... image
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China warns terrorists could use AI to create and fire their own weapons
Among other concerns, governance document says Beijing seeks ‘to ensure that AI is always under human control’.
Hong Kong police foil phone scam, save elderly woman from HK$100,000 loss Hong Kong police have foiled a “guess who I am” phone scam, arresting two mainland Chinese men hired by a fraud syndicate and preventing an elderly woman from losing HK$100,000 (US$12,740). Chief Inspector Ma Suet-yiu of the force’s Western district on Wednesday said the arrests were made after the 78-year-old woman received a phone call from a scammer impersonating her son on Monday. The fraudster claimed he was in police custody for a criminal case and asked for HK$100,000 in bail money. He... image
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Hong Kong police foil phone scam, save elderly woman from HK$100,000 loss
Two men arrested while allegedly trying to collect ‘bail money’ from 76-year-old woman who had been told her son was in police custody.