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AdvertisementHong Kong economyOpinionHong Kong OpinionMathias WooOpinion | More than a tech hub, Northern Metropolis can be a cradle for cultureBy focusing on creative industries, the development can enhance Hong Kong’s soft power push within the Greater Bay Area and beyond
Reading Time:3 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPMathias WooPublished: 5:30am, 18 Oct 2025Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis is more than a mere zoning plan; it is a crucial part of China’s development strategy and a pivotal step towards elevating the Greater Bay Area’s (GBA) global profile. With development now under way, the conversation must shift to a new realm: soft power.AdvertisementThe Northern Metropolis should not be just another new town designed to address Hong Kong’s housing and industrial needs. Rather, it must emerge as a zone of cultural emancipation that takes the GBA’s development to the next level.
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AdvertisementHong Kong societyHong KongSocietyOperation Santa Claus helps Hong Kong children with rare rheumatic diseasesHong Kong Paediatric Rheumatism Association subsidises medicine and provides support for children with rheumatic diseases and their carers
Reading Time:3 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPCindy SuiPublished: 10:15am, 9 Dec 2025Imagine waking up one day and suddenly being unable to use your legs. That was what happened to Rain Shiu Tin-yung in Hong Kong when he was six.
“He got up that morning, but his knees hurt so much that he couldn’t walk. He was in so much pain,” Shiu’s mother, Apple Kwok Siu-ping, recalled.
The pain only worsened.
Advertisement“All his joints were inflamed. It was so painful he would wake up crying,” Kwok said. “He went from being able to walk to not walking at all.”
It took several visits to the doctors and tests before Shiu, now 20, was diagnosed with paediatric rheumatism, a broad term for more than 100 autoimmune disorders in children, where the ..

Trump (AP file photo) A judge in Georgia has dismissed the last pending criminal case against president Donald Trump, ending efforts to charge him for trying to overturn the 2020 election. With this, all three criminal cases filed against him before his re-election have now been taken down. Charges against his co-accused, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, were also dropped. The Georgia case was considered a major legal threat because a state conviction cannot be undone by a presidential pardon. But on Wednesday, Pete Skandalakis, who leads the state’s nonpartisan prosecutor council, asked the court to close the case. He said the earlier charges brought by Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis did not hold, arguing that challenging election results is not a crime.Georgia prosecutor kills 2020 election interference case against Trump and alliesSkandalakis also said the federal investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith was the proper venue to review Trump’s actions. He..