21 h. ago How I saw UK's biggest phone gang smashed: Bulgarians in suburbia, and their incredible link to a Hong Kong skyscraper filled with a million stolen handsets

The front door had been found unlocked so the officer wielding a battering ram dropped it to the ground with a disappointed shrug and stormed into the house with the others.

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60 h. ago Typhoon Matmo: China evacuates almost 350,000 people as powerful storm makes landfall

Flights, trains and businesses shut down across Guangdong and Hainan as authorities raise top-level warning

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62 h. ago Typhoon Matmo: China evacuates 150,000 people as powerful storm makes landfall

Flights, trains and businesses shut down across Guangdong and Hainan as authorities raise top-level warning

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6 d. ago A Treasure Trove of Art Is Uncovered in a Hong Kong Apartment

A Treasure Trove of Art Is Uncovered in a Hong Kong Apartment  The New York Times

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7 d. ago China's factory activity contracts for a 6th straight month as trade tensions weigh on the economy

China has reported its factory activity shrank for a sixth straight month in September, the longest slump since 2019

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8 d. ago ‘His buildings were always ready for their closeup’: how Terry Farrell’s postmodern exuberance conquered the world

From the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ to TV-am’s eggcups and a Hong Kong tower that featured on a banknote, Farrell strived to make uplifting architecture• ‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building dies – news• Spies, eggcups and penthouses: Farrell’s best buildings – galleryTerry Farrell made his mark on London. All his buildings had a certain postmodernist swagger, but one of his most conspicuous (ironically, in view of its function) was the headquarters of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, on the site of the former Vauxhall pleasure gardens.Completed in 1994, MI6 showed Farrell, who has died aged 87, in his postmodern pomp, energetically juggling historicist motifs to conjure a flamboyant, flesh-coloured fortress, replete with ziggurats and crenellations, dominating its Thames-side locale. Deyan Sudjic described MI6 as “an epitaph for the architecture of the 80s”, and its styling that which “could be interpreted equally plausibly as a Mayan temple or a piece o...

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8 d. ago Hong Kong activist says Singapore denied him entry for ‘political reasons’

Nathan Law, who is based in London, says he was going to attend a closed-door, invitation-only event

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9 d. ago Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law denied entry to Singapore

Chinese territory issued bounty for arrest of former student leader of the Umbrella Movement protest group

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1 week ago Celtic release findings of Independent Review into policing before Rangers clash

CELTIC have denied having any knowledge or involvement in the police operations that took place before the Old Firm derby on March 16. The Scottish champions received a large number of complaints from supporters after almost 100 fans were denied entry for the fixture amid police concerns. They were refused access into the game after...

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1 week ago Typhoon Ragasa weakens in Vietnam after leaving trail of destruction across southern China

Hong Kong resumes flights as megacities across region count cost of the world’s most powerful storm so far this year

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1 week ago Wall of water smashes through Hong Kong hotel as guests flee Typhoon Ragas in panic

This is the horrifying moment waves from Typhoon Ragasa shatter the glass doors of a luxury hotel in Hong Kong, sending flood water pouring into the building.

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1 week ago Typhoon Ragasa latest: Deadly storm nears Vietnam after wreaking havoc in southern China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Ragasa weakens to a tropical storm after making landfall in China

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1 week ago In pictures: Typhoon Ragasa leaves a trail of destruction in China

Typhoon makes second landfall along Beihai coast in China’s Guangxi Zhuang region

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1 week ago From NYC to Hong Kong: AFL grand final goes global with watch parties around the world | Jack Snape

While the growth of football outside Australia remains a work in progress, that won’t stop international fans getting together for one day in SeptemberAll your questions answered in our ultimate guide to the AFL grand finalSaturday’s AFL grand final at the MCG will attract a crowd more than 30,000 fans larger than that of the next Super Bowl. It will be preceded by a public holiday for the prematch parade – one of the few days off around the world dedicated to sport. And it will be headlined by Snoop Dogg, one of earth’s pre-eminent musical performers.By these measures, the grand final can stand alongside any event in world sport. But while there may be more than 50 watch parties for this weekend’s match scheduled across the globe, including five in China and six in Germany, the sport’s international growth remains a work in progress. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Typhoon Ragasa latest: Storm heads for Vietnam after wreaking havoc in southern China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

The storm brought several Asian megacities to a standstill

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1 week ago Weaker Ragasa pushes across China's southern coast toward Vietnam after causing flooding

The much weaker Tropical Storm Ragasa pushed west along the southern Chinese coast toward Vietnam after flooding streets and homes and knocking out power in the economic hub of Guangdong province and causing deaths in Taiwan and the Philippines

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1 week ago Typhoon Ragasa latest: World’s strongest storm breaks records in China after slamming Taiwan and Hong Kong

Taiwan races to reach survivors while Hong Kong and Macau are brought to a standstill

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1 week ago Wealthy investors from US, China and Hong Kong top applications for New Zealand’s ‘golden visa’ scheme

Since new rules for the Active Investor Plus visa came into effect in April, applicant numbers have almost tripledWealthy investors from the US, China and Hong Kong are the leaders in applications for New Zealand’s “golden visas” after the government relaxed the scheme’s requirements in a bid to boost the flagging economy.The new rules for the Active Investor Plus visa came into effect in April and lowered investment thresholds, removed English-language requirements and cut the amount of time applicants must spend in the country to establish residency from three years to three weeks. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago Longchamp’s travels from Paris to London as it approaches Winter 2025

Longchamp’s travels from Paris to London as it approaches Winter 2025  Prestige Hong Kong

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1 week ago When the London Philharmonic Orchestra came to Hong Kong and Asia

When the London Philharmonic Orchestra came to Hong Kong and Asia  South China Morning Post

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