I often wonder whether my architectural career peaked in 2006 – not because I had already accomplished a lot or designed my masterpiece – but because that was the year I resigned from Gehry Partners. As exciting as it was to return to Hong Kong, I left the world’s most famous architectural practice wondering if I would ever collaborate on projects as high-profile, emotionally striking and complica...

Hong Kong continues to count the economic losses from the city’s deadliest fire in decades, with the disaster having destroyed 1,736 flats at Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court, turned residents’ valuables into ashes and triggered the cancellation of banquets and mega-events. Economists and industry leaders estimate the losses could run into billions of Hong Kong dollars, with the total market value of the f...

Huelva, Málaga- tenía claro dónde mirar. A la mejor Macarena, aquella que salía de la sacristía de San Gil después de haber sido mimada por Juan Manuel, sin artificios ni distracciones. La que veíamos desde los años 70 -lo hemos comprobado ahora- no era la mejor versión de una dolorosa sin igual. Han tenido que pasar casi medio siglo para que un restaurador inteligente y detallista la descubriera...

The Nobel Prize may not seem very relevant to many, but we can certainly draw lessons from its winners. Earlier this year, Peter Howitt – an honorary professor and fellow alumnus of Canada’s Western University – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with two other professors for work on innovation-driven economic growth. Howitt’s work helped formalise the concept of creative destruction...

A domestic helper who died in Hong Kong’s devastating Tai Po fire last month planned to return home permanently to the Philippines to be with her 10-year-old son and was due to leave on Saturday, the Post has learned. Maryan Pascual Esteban, 39, died with her ward, five-year-old Hannah, in the inferno at the Wang Fuk Court housing estate, which killed at least 160 people and displaced more than 4,...

Hong Kong authorities have launched a professional services platform to provide support for mainland Chinese companies expanding overseas, while boosting business opportunities for local sectors. Speaking at the launch ceremony for the Hong Kong Professional Services GoGlobal Platform on Saturday, Deputy Secretary for Justice Horace Cheung Kwok-kwan said the sectors’ international outlook, uncompr...

A warehouse in northern Hong Kong caught fire on Saturday, forcing more than 30 people including dozens of residents of a nearby nursing home to evacuate. Police received multiple calls about the fire breaking out in the warehouse on Ma Liu Shui San Tsuen’s Lung Ma Road in Sheung Shui at around 5.27pm. Firefighters extinguished the blaze within an hour, and no injuries were reported. Advertisement...

Exhibitors at one of Hong Kong’s largest annual bazaars expect sales to rise by up to 20 per cent from last year, citing higher attendance and good weather as they introduce modern twists to some traditional food products. The 59th edition of the Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo, organised by the Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong, opened on Saturday at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay...

Hong Kong police have arrested a 71-year-old man for attacking a woman and her son with a water bottle following a dispute over smoking. The 58-year-old mother called police at about 8.30am on Saturday, reporting that the man had poured water on her and used a water bottle to attack her 29-year-old son at a pedestrian tunnel at Che Kung Miu Road in Tai Wai. According to the force, the mother and s...

A residential project in Yau Tong triggered buying euphoria on Saturday, with all 150 units snapped up by midafternoon amid heightened expectations for a recovery in Hong Kong’s home market next year. The flats at One Park Place, priced between HK$4.23 million (US$543,684) and HK$9.51 million, were in high demand after developers Sino Land, CSI Properties and MTR Corporation offered discounts of u...

Hong Kong’s constitutional affairs chief has dismissed suggestions that a record number of invalid ballots cast in the recent Legislative Council election was due to some people being forced to vote, adding that authorities may reconsider introducing “smart ballot boxes” to address the issue. Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai also said on Saturday that last mon...

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Hong Kong authorities have expressed confidence in swiftly identifying a location in Tai Po to build subsidised flats as part of resettlement options being reviewed for victims left homeless by the deadly inferno last month. Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong Wai-lun on Saturday outlined several options to resettle displaced residents in Wang Fuk Court, while underscoring the importance of ga...

Christine Fong Kwok-shan, a long-time district councillor in Hong Kong known for defending constituents’ rights with fiery and sometimes controversial political acts, has pledged to abandon her past protest methods, now that she has been elected as a lawmaker. The city’s new “Queen of Votes” in the Legislative Council election, who previously positioned herself as an independent moderate belonging...

ГлавнаяПроисшествия Независимый комитет официально приступит к работе в конце декабря Редакция сайта ТАСС 05:51 © Евгений Пахомов/ ТАСС ГОНКОНГ, 13 декабря. /ТАСС/. Власти специального административного района (САР) КНР Гонконг (Сянган) учредили независимый комитет по расследованию причин и обстоятельств пожара в жилом комплексе, унесшего не менее 160 жизней. Как сообщает администрация (правительс...

Hong Kong’s former commerce minister Gregory So Kam-leung has died at the age of 67. It was understood that So, a lawyer by trade who served as the city’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development between 2011 and 2017, had been in hospital for some time before he died on Saturday morning. He oversaw a number of thorny issues during his tenure, including broadcast regulation, intellectual pr...

The principal of a Hong Kong primary school opposite the scene of the deadly Tai Po fire has expressed hope that the institution could relocate, saying the horrifying view of the charred buildings will put parents off and affect enrolment. Tai Po Baptist Public School head Siu Ting said the campus was still sealed off and there was currently no date set for when pupils might return. The school’s s...

A fire broke out at a flat in a public housing estate in Hong Kong’s Tin Shui Wai early on Saturday, leaving a man severely injured, with more than 200 residents evacuated. Authorities received multiple calls at 3.43am on Saturday from residents reporting the blaze at Tin Chak Estate in Tin Shui Wai, with occasional sounds of explosions. Firefighters rushed to the scene and rescued a man living in...

Once every decade, villagers in Kam Tin build a nearly 30-metre (100-foot) tall bamboo structure – large enough to hold almost half the capacity of the Hong Kong Coliseum – to stage rituals and Cantonese opera performances for an audience of residents, deities and spirits alike. The colossal structure, adorned with vibrant plaques and a flag, is the largest of its kind in Hong Kong and serves as t...

McDonald’s Hong Kong was voted Company of the Year at the 2025 Business Awards organised by SCMP Live, a highlight for the company as it marks half a century of operating in the city. The restaurant chain’s CEO Randy Lai and chairman Zhang Yichen received the award from SCMP’s CEO Catherine So during a lunch ceremony in Hong Kong on Friday. The toned-down ceremony replaced the black-tie gala dinne...

Ambiguous rules, lax supervision and uncoordinated policies involving at least four departments are among some deep-rooted problems contributing to the inferno that killed 160 residents in Hong Kong, analysts have said, as the Post reviewed what went wrong. Some industry insiders also questioned whether housing authorities, who oversee a lesser-known independent checking unit, should have played a...

Власти Гонконга в пятницу объявили об ускорении процедур с целью завершить независимое расследование разрушительного пожара в срок не более девяти месяцев. В результате трагедии погибли 160 человек, тысячи остались без крова. Заявление сделал глава администрации Гонконга Джон Ли более чем через две недели после того, как огонь охватил семь многоэтажных жилых зданий в районе Тай По, расположенном н...

Hong Kong health authorities have urged the public to get the latest Covid vaccine as the next wave of the virus is set to arrive. The Centre for Health Protection said on Friday active periods of Covid-19 came in cycles of every six to nine months. More than five months had passed since the last periodic upsurge of Covid activity, it noted, as it asked the public to get the vaccine “in a timely m...

Игрок Team Spirit Андрей tN1R Татаринович поделился мнением о предстоящей встрече с Team Vitality в плей-офф StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 по CS2. В интервью на канале «Хекку и орден Картофельного Салата» в Telegram он также поделился впечатлениями от выхода в полуфинал чемпионата. Андрей tN1R ТатариновичИгрок Team Spirit Ощущения [от выхода в полуфинал мейджора] классные. Честно, пока что не вер...

Пассажир самолета авиакомпании Cathay Pacific был арестован после попытки открыть дверь во время транстихоокеанского рейса из Бостона в Гонконг. Об этом сообщает People. Инцидент произошел во время полета Уточняется, что на борту рейса CX811 20-летний мужчина из Китая попытался открыть дверь самолета. Представитель авиакомпании сообщил, что экипаж оперативно отреагировал на ситуацию: проверил, над...