Nanotechnology expert Antonio Facchetti joins HKUST from Georgia Tech in the US

North Korea has held a celebration performance for the 81st founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea, with leader Kim Jong-un in attendance, state media reported Sunday. Patriotic songs, acrobatics and dance filled Pyongyang Indoor Stadium the previous day in a show that stressed loyalty to the party and Kim, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. Kim, whom the article described as "representing the dignity and mightiness" of the country, waved to the audience "as a token of his congratulations to all the participants on the party founding day" and expressed satisfaction with the performance, the KCNA said. A photo released by the KCAN shows Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju, and daughter, Kim Ju-ae, accompanying him. Diplomatic envoys and members of foreign missions sat alongside senior party and military officials and Pyongyang citizens, according to the report. Kim did not issue a statement marking the anniversary. The performance capped a series of events and gatherings marking this year's anniversary, which were modest in scale. North Korea considers anniversaries ending in zero or

The man, in his 30s, was taken to Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition on Saturday but died overnight.

A non-profit children’s education organisation in Hong Kong has urged the government to expand support services for preschool-aged ethnic minority children with special needs to more districts, after a pilot project found that 95 per cent of participants showed improvement. Heep Hong Society said on Sunday that many ethnic minority families faced multiple barriers when seeking support for children with special educational needs (SEN), including language difficulties, financial constraints and...

A year ago, a Unitree robot kickboxing could light up social media. When DeepSeek released its latest open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, developers around the world rushed to test it. This year, however, Hangzhou’s latest technology bets have barely made a ripple. The city’s “New Eight Steeds” – eight deep-tech companies in fields ranging from smart glasses and inference graphic processing units (GPUs) to compute-in-memory chips and space computing – are a very different proposition...

The Hong Kong Bar Association has suggested capping the number of proxies a person can hold at homeowners’ meetings, without restricting who may act as a proxy, stressing that improving transparency and introducing an electronic voting system could help to deter abuse in large-scale maintenance procurement. Speaking to the South China Morning Post, association chairman Jose-Antonio Maurellet expressed reservations about a government proposal to restrict an owner’s representative to a relative or...

The man in his 20s suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after misjudging his jump into an east Brisbane pool.

The man in his 20s suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after misjudging his jump into an east Brisbane pool.

‘I’m sure there’s no malice, but these things make Tamil Malaysians feel increasingly vulnerable.’

Zach Bates started the Bathurst 1000 in pole position.

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The study, taking place across 12 schools in Bradford, aims to examine what impact restricting access to social media will have on the behaviour of children and teenagers.

Families watched in horror as a man was mauled to death by a 30-stone Siberian tiger after he climbed into its enclosure at a wildlife park.