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Near the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Egypt has officially unveiled the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a monumental project that has taken decades to complete and is now being hailed as the world’s largest archaeological museum.The museum, whose construction cost more than $1.2 billion, spans an astonishing 500,000 square metres, roughly the size of 70 football pitches, and houses around 100,000 artefacts chronicling over 7,000 years of Egyptian civilisation, from pre-dynastic cultures to the Greco-Roman era.But the greatest draw of all is the long-awaited full display of the treasures from Tutankhamun’s tomb, reunited for the first time since their discovery more than a century ago.
A century in the making: The complete Tutankhamun experienceThe discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter remains one of the most celebrated moments in archaeological history. The find, remarkably intact, offere..

AdvertisementClimate changeOpinionWorld OpinionKalinga SeneviratneOpinion | World Court’s ruling opens the door wider for climate justiceThe court’s decision could result in legal action against countries that fail to honour their climate commitments
Reading Time:3 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPKalinga SeneviratnePublished: 5:30am, 29 Jul 2025In a unanimous decision, a 15-member bench of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Netherlands ruled on July 23 that government failures to protect vulnerable populations and ecosystems from climate change could amount to breaches of international law. The court’s non-binding ruling, which says that countries must comply with climate treaties, has been hailed as a great victory for youth activism from small island nations facing the brunt of the climate crisis.AdvertisementThe triumph at the ICJ is the culmination of a unique university project started by a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s law s..

AdvertisementCrime in Hong KongHong KongLaw and CrimeHong Kong man jailed for laundering millions through scam-linked bank accountsCourt hands down stiff sentence to deter growing abuse of personal bank accounts
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPWynna WongPublished: 3:27pm, 5 Feb 2026Updated: 3:49pm, 5 Feb 2026A Hong Kong man has been jailed for nearly four years after admitting to laundering millions of dollars in criminal proceeds through bank accounts linked to investment and romance scams.
The 38-year-old defendant was sentenced on Wednesday to 44 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to two counts of money laundering at the District Court in Wan Chai.
“To enhance deterrence against the use of bank accounts for money laundering, police applied to the court for a sentence enhancement at the sentencing stage,” said Lo Chun-kong, senior inspector of the technology and financial crime unit at New Territories North Regional Headquarters.
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