Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority will help owners of 40 housing estates undergoing maintenance work to hire temporary reviewers for their projects, after their original consultant came under investigation following the deadly Tai Po fire. The authority announced on Tuesday that it would launch tenders for the 40 estates that had previously engaged Will Power Architects as their consultant and had already begun maintenance work, as the company was “extremely unlikely” to continue its...

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] In a defining moment for Hong Kong's educational landscape, the YK Pao Education Foundation officially announced the forthcoming opening of YK Pao School Hong Kong at a launch ceremony on 29th May, 2026. Welcoming its first cohort in August 2026, the pioneering school is conceived to meet the growing demand for international bilingual education. Rooted in the philosophy "Learning with Joy, Living with Purpose," the...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has issued an urgent appeal for a heart and lung donation to save a critically ill 13-year-old girl. The patient, Ching Ching, suffers from pulmonary hypertension and heart failure. She is currently being kept alive at Hong Kong Children’s Hospital with the support of an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or ECMO machine,...

Hong Kong’s new legislation enables certain criminal cases to be retroactively brought under national security procedures even if the alleged offences occurred before the 2020 national security law was enacted. The subsidiary legislation, which introduces a classification mechanism for “other offences endangering national security” under the city’s domestic national security law, was gazetted and came into effect on Tuesday. Under the new law, any case certified by the chief executive will be...

Hong Kong will roll out a range of discounts, free rides, giveaways and other deals as the city celebrates the 29th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1. From MTR rides to shopping centre coupons, the South China Morning Post unpacks what the city has to offer for the occasion. 1. Free transport Rail operator the MTR Corporation will give away 71,000 domestic single-journey tickets through a lucky draw on July 1 and offer Airport Express discounts to holders of child Octopus,...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a construction worker to 10 months in prison for throwing dozens of sheets of paper bearing seditious messages from his flat in 2024 and last year. Raymond Wong Chan-fai, 55, told Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak in mitigation on Tuesday that he had written offensive messages targeting police, judges and mainland Chinese residents on the papers and thrown them out of his window to “let off steam”. Wong earlier pleaded guilty at West Kowloon Court to two counts...

Four of the 29 whales, dolphins and porpoises that washed ashore in Hong Kong waters last year are suspected to have died from human activity, with an annual report jointly released by the government and Ocean Park also finding an overall decline in strandings. A press statement with the findings was published on Tuesday for the Hong Kong Marine Life Stranding Report 2025, a collaboration between the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department...