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AdvertisementEducation in Hong KongHong KongEducationHong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from spaceStudents from city and neighbouring Macau will be able to participate in ‘Tiangong Class’, with details to be released soon
1-MIN READ1-MIN1 ListenEmily HungPublished: 10:31pm, 5 Sep 2026Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture from space for students and teachers in the city and neighbouring Macau.
Hong Kong authorities revealed on Saturday plans for live broadcasts of “Tiangong Class” to take place soon, without specifying the date and time.
The activity, jointly organised by the Hong Kong and Macau governments and the China Manned Space Agency, includes an expert lecture, an in-orbit demonstration and a question-and-answer session to showcase the environment in space.
Hong Kong’s Education Bureau will arrange for primary and secondary schoolteachers and students to watch the live broadcast o..

Singapore minister briefs about the detention of 52 Singaporeans in China for a pyramid scheme. This is believed to be the largest incident of detention of Singaporeans overseas. What began as what appeared to be an attractive investment opportunity in China has ended with 52 Singaporeans arrested and detained there in a major crackdown on suspected pyramid schemes. Chinese authorities arrested the Singaporeans in the southern Guangxi region as part of a wider law-enforcement operation targeting pyramid-selling activities and related offences, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and police said on Friday.The scale of the arrests is striking: it is believed to be the largest number of Singaporeans detained overseas at one time.The Singapore government said its diplomats have visited all 52 detainees three times to check on their welfare, provide consular assistance and relay messages between them and their families. The Chinese authorities have not disclosed details of the alle..

A White House website featuring arcade games is photographed on a computer screen (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondant from Washington: America has spent 250 years arguing about how it was built. The White House has now settled the matter in the most authoritative medium available to the United States: a video game.The Trump administration on Friday unveiled “Arcade,” five retro-style games on the official White House website, turning pieces of President Trump’s MAGA agenda into pixelated entertainment. The collection includes games titled “Build the Wall,” “Rio Run,” “Supply Line,” “Flappy Bill” and “Trump Savings Tycoon.”If this sounds like something dreamed up by a teenager who has consumed too much caffeine, that is roughly the aesthetic. The White House promotional material riffs on the loading screens of Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo, even transforming the Sega logo into “MAGA.” The launch slogan was suitably subtle: “Can’t stop winning. Build the wall. Deport. Fill a Trump Ac..

AdvertisementEuropean UnionWorldEurope5 EU nations plan to send rejected migrants to non-EU ‘return hubs’, target 2027Rights groups have criticised the plan, arguing that European nations cannot guarantee the rights of migrants would be respected
3-MIN READ3-MIN ListenAssociated PressPublished: 11:55pm, 4 Sep 2026Denmark and four other European Union countries agreed on Friday on a model for “return hubs” in non-EU nations and hope to begin sending migrants to the facilities as early as 2027, an official said.The announcement, made after a one-day meeting in Copenhagen, is the latest development in an effort by EU states to send people whose asylum requests have been rejected to third countries outside the bloc.
“We are moving forward towards what is actually a fundamental transformation of the common European migration and asylum system,” said Morten Bodskov, Denmark’s minister of immigration and integration.
He briefed reporters alongside counterparts from Germany, the Netherlands, A..

As Beijing and Moscow double down on the Arctic shipping route, Europe is hitting the brakes.
Despite being the main destination for goods along the route and accounting for most of the world’s shipping giants, Europe opposes the commercialisation of Arctic transits, wary of fragile polar ecosystems and navigational risks amid rising anxiety over Russia and China’s closer polar collaboration.
“In Europe, cooperation between China and Russia on container shipping is often viewed as another…