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AdvertisementHong Kong propertyBusinessHong Kong and Singapore landlords embrace flex offices as multinationals reshape demandFlex operators deliver creditworthy tenants – a departure from the sector’s early reliance on start-ups and small firms: analysts
Reading Time:4 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPChen HongPublished: 11:30am, 21 Dec 2025Landlords in Hong Kong and Singapore are expected to continue allocating space to flexible office operators as multinational corporations reshape the sector’s risk profile and fuel long-term demand, according to industry experts.A major driver behind this shift is the rapid change in who uses flexible workspaces. Global companies now represented 41 per cent of Asia-Pacific flex office users, the highest proportion worldwide and nearly triple North America’s 14 per cent, according to Piers Mallitte, head of Workthere APAC at Savills.
This marked a departure from the early days of the sector, when operators relied heavily on start-ups and small firms, an..

US President Donald Trump’s name was affixed to the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Friday morning, irking some people, especially the Kennedy family. Kerry Kennedy, daughter of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, said she would “grab a pickax” to remove President Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center after letters spelling Trump’s name were added. ‘Are You Kidding Me…’: Fuming Jeffries Calls Out Trump 'Sycophants' On Kennedy Center Renaming “Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder,” Kerry Kennedy posted on the social platform X. “Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!” The Kennedy Center board voted to include Trump’s name on the building on Thursday, and the exterior now reads “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” Kerry Kenne..

The suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University, who killed himself, was found by police through an anonymous tip about Reddit post.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate student and Portuguese national, was found dead inside a storage unit in Salem and was also believed to have killed a renowned physics professor this week near Boston. US Shooting Probe | ‘He Killed Himself By…': BIG Reveal After Brown University Shooter Found Dead Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said the suspect, whose last known address was in Miami, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and acted alone, “as far as we know.”How Reddit post helped police?The five-day investigation got its breakthrough after investigators received an anonymous tip on December 16 about a Reddit post that suggested police look into a grey Nissan with Florida plates spotted around Brown’s campus.With that information, along with other witness accounts and corroborating evidence, police..

AdvertisementJapanAsiaEast AsiaJapanese drone school develops AI system to track bears amid rise in encountersThe new system being developed in Akita prefecture can detect bears and share their locations via smartphones
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPKyodoPublished: 11:41am, 20 Dec 2025A drone school in northeastern Japan is developing a new system that uses drones and artificial intelligence to identify and automatically track bears amid a surge in bear-related incidents.The new system being developed by D-Academy Tohoku in Gojome, Akita prefecture, will be able to detect bears hidden from view in mountainous or urban areas and share their locations via smartphones.
It is expected to be available next year, and local authorities are already showing a keen interest.
AdvertisementThe aircraft, measuring 98cm (38 inches) in length, 76cm (30 inches) in width and 48cm (19 inches) in height, will be equipped with a night-vision camera and an infrared camera for measuring temper..

AdvertisementHong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedyHong KongSocietyDeath toll in Hong Kong fire rises to 161 after new DNA match‘DNA tests are still being carried out, and we do not rule out the possibility that more victims may be found,’ police commissioner says
Reading Time:1 minuteWhy you can trust SCMPFiona SunPublished: 11:38am, 20 Dec 2025Updated: 11:44am, 20 Dec 2025One more person has been confirmed dead in Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire, bringing the death toll to 161, the police chief has said, citing results of further forensic analysis.
“Further forensic tests found the DNA of another person in one of the bodies, later identified as belonging to a couple,” Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said on Saturday after a passing-out parade at the Hong Kong Police College.
“DNA tests are still being carried out, and we do not rule out the possibility that more victims may be found and the death toll could rise.”
AdvertisementChow also said that the six missing cases earlier reported had ..