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AdvertisementInnovating to Advance HumanityHong KongEducationPioneering Care After Crisis: It All Starts with the PeopleHow CityUHK’s innovative Community Chilling Hub is reimagining human care in Hong Kong
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When the devastating fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po on 26 November, the response from City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) did not begin with a strategy memo. “In fact, since the very beginning, it was not a strategy,” says Professor Cherry TAM, Associate Professor from the Department of Social and Behavioural Science (SS). “We viewed it as our expertise, our responsibility … our aim is to care for people and society.”
Within five days—by 1 December—the university had organised a public lecture on resilience, mobilised psychosocial support for affected primary school pupils and begun planning trauma-informed..

AdvertisementInnovating to Advance HumanityHong KongEducationSocial Transformation in the SandsThe afforestation project around Inner Mongolia's Malan Lake has grown into a fine example of how ecological engineering, economic incentives and institutional cooperation can reinforce one another
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On the southeastern rim of the Tengger Desert, where dunes can rise 30 metres high and advance significant metres a year, a private afforestation effort is attempting something larger than tree planting. At Malan Lake in Alxa, Inner Mongolia, founder Mr YUEN Shu Wah is testing whether desert restoration can succeed by redesigning not only landscapes, but also livelihoods and governance.
Battling Moving Sand
“Countries, cities and villages have been annihilated by the desertification,” Yuen says, describing the stakes in stark histor..

Indian-origin tech leader Apoorva Govind speaks out on H-1B issue. Amid a renewed controversy over whether American jobs should be reserved for Americans and not skilled foreigners, Indian-origin tech leader Apoorva Govind presented a detailed analysis of the tech situation, breaking down which tech companies need what type of skills. Govind said she had been in tech for 15 years now and witnessed that a lot of Americans value living close to their family and friends. “They don't want to move to the coastal cities where all the tech jobs are concentrated. So sometimes the employers are left with no choice but to hire foreign nationals,” Govind said, adding that it also means that more states need to create tech hubs like Pittsburgh, Raleigh, and Dallas/Austin have.Govind explained that there are three types of companies that hire techies. In the first type, there are companies like Apple and Google that offer many jobs, but one has to crack the interview and move to the city where..

The attackers targeted Kenscoff, a farming community, on August 23 A violent Haitian gang has released 13 hostages — seven women and six children — from among 50 people it kidnapped nearly a week ago when it launched a deadly attack on a farming community near the capital, Port-au-Prince.Unicef, the United Nations’ children’s agency that helped secure their release, said late Friday that those freed included three children under the age of two, a seven-year-old child, and two teenage girls.According to Unicef, it worked with leaders of Kenscoff, the targeted farming settlement, to help secure the release of the women and children. It was not immediately clear whether they needed medical treatment or whether more women and children remained in captivity.“This release offers a rare moment of hope amid the violence threatening children in Haiti. The Kenscoff abduction was not an isolated incident but another stark reminder of the scale and frequency of attacks on children across the count..

AdvertisementCrime in Hong KongHong KongLaw and CrimeMan held after laundry capsules dumped into pond, killing catfish and injuring turtlesHong Kong police arrest 42-year-old suspect after examining surveillance footage of Ma On Shan incident
1-MIN READ1-MIN ListenFiona SunPublished: 11:58pm, 29 Aug 2026Hong Kong police have arrested a 42-year-old man after he allegedly dumped laundry capsules into a pond, killing a catfish and injuring 30 turtles in Ma On Shan, the South China Morning Post has learned.
Police said on Saturday that officers were alerted on Wednesday by a security guard who found a large amount of foam in a pond at a residential estate on Kam Ying Road where turtles were kept.
The guard removed the turtles from the pond and cleaned it, the force said.
Officers arrested the man on Friday on suspicion of animal cruelty, according to police.
A source said the guard alerted police after finding the dead catfish and 30 injured turtles in the pond at the Kam Ying Court estate..

A Chinese coastguard ship is shielding a cluster of fishing boats when several small, fast vessels begin circling – sometimes darting closer, sometimes backing off. Are they just curious fishermen? Or are they probing for a weak spot, trying to lure the patrol ship into a trap?
In the real world, a split-second decision could escalate a tense maritime stand-off into something far more dangerous. This is exactly the kind of nerve‑wracking scenario Chinese coastguard researchers have been running…

Kentucky police officer Asad Zahir arrested and charged after he was found stalking his ex over 2000 times through Flock tracker. Another case of the misuse of Flock was reported after a Kentucky police officer was arrested for using the Flock Safety license plate reader camera system to track his ex-girlfriend, the mother of his child, 2000 time. Asad Zahir was arrested and then released on his own recognizance and will be presented in the court. Shively Police Department said that Zahir is suspended without pay pending the investigation.According to reports, Zahir's alleged activity was flagged by a new tool that Flock Safety brought in following the rise in the number of cases where the surveillance tool is being used to stalk exes. The audit assistance tool flags abnoram use by officers.It works, police department blames one officer's poor decisions“The Flock camera works. When it’s used properly it works. There are tons of stats that show it works,” Shively Police Chief ..

Houston attorney Tony Buzbee and his wife, Frances, recently acquired 1708 River Oaks Blvd Prominent Houston trial lawyer Tony Buzbee has bought a 15,000-square-foot luxury mansion listed for $15.5 million in the exclusive River Oaks neighbourhood, with plans to tear down the entire house and turn the property into a private garden estate. The purchase of 1708 River Oaks Boulevard allows Buzbee and his wife, Frances Moody Buzbee, to expand their existing property directly beside their long-time home at 1722 River Oaks Boulevard. Instead of living in or renovating the large mansion, the couple has partnered with Habitat for Humanity to remove and save usable materials from the property before demolition begins.Reports from the Houston Business Journal and the Houston Chronicle confirmed that the non-profit will manage the salvage work, recovering millions of pounds of architectural fittings and building materials to support affordable housing projects across Texas. “They will be tearing..

The US central bank will “have work to do” if policymakers are not confident that underlying inflation is returning to its 2 per cent target, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh said on Friday in remarks that acknowledged financial conditions do not appear restrictive and marked the closest he has come to acknowledging interest rate hikes may be needed to ease price pressures.
“Here is my standard: We must be confident that underlying inflation is moving to our objective, clearly and at…

China’s electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD saw its earnings jump 30 per cent in the three months from April to June, ending a five-quarter losing streak as buoyant overseas sales and premium models enhanced its net margin and profitability.
The Shenzhen-based carmaker, also the world’s largest EV builder, posted a net income of 8.2 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) in the second quarter, up 30 per cent year on year. The quarterly performance beat a consensus estimate of 8 billion yuan in a Bloomberg…