At least four people have been killed after a fire engulfed a residential building in Hong Kong. The fire at Wang Fuk Court broke out at 14:51 local time (06:51 GMT) , according to the Hong Kong government. In a statement, it said another two people were in critical condition, with one person in a…
Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 1.45%, while the Topix index climbed 1.11%. Japanese artificial intelligence-related companies rose: Advantest, which supplies testing equipment to Nvidia, was up 3.73%,…
View of pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Sham Shui Po shopping district in Hong Kong, May 1986. (Photo by Forrest Anderson/Getty Images) Forrest Anderson | The Chronicle Collection | Getty Images Asia markets climbed Monday, led by Hong Kong, after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled that the central bank could begin easing monetary policy next month in his…
Shenzhen Transsion Holdings, the biggest seller of mobile phones in Africa, is weighing a second listing in Hong Kong, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Transsion is in talks with advisers about an offering that could raise about US$1-billion, though the exact size, as well as timing, hasn’t been determined, the people said,…
HONG KONG — Chinese authorities in Hong Kong have launched a criminal investigation after more than a dozen female students and teachers at the University of Hong Kong accused a male law student of using AI to generate deepfake porn images of them. The probe, announced Tuesday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for…
