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Hong Kong’s Ng On-yee has advanced to the final of the 2026 WSF Women’s Championship, where she will face defending world champion Bai Yulu of China on Friday night for the world No 1 spot. This is the first women’s event of the 2026 WSF Tour, held over five days in Sofia, Bulgaria, with 12 players taking part. Ng, the three-time women’s world champion, reached the final by defeating two Thai opponents, including the current world No 1, in the women’s knockout stage. In the group stage, Ng won...

China is starting to reap the rewards of its food-security push into the seed sector, aggressively making a play for self-reliance with domestically developed varieties dubbed the “chips” of agriculture. This strategic push, authorities say, has seen the nation make substantial progress in developing and deploying its own vital crop and livestock genetics, aiming to reduce dependence amid global uncertainties. In this once innovation-deficient sector, the domestic breeding source market share...

From the eyeliner-heavy angst of My Chemical Romance to the double-denim pop of Blue, reunion tours by early-2000s Western acts are selling out Southeast Asian arenas, powered by an unlikely driver: Gen Z fans who were toddlers, or not yet born, when the bands first topped the charts. When My Chemical Romance (MCR) announced its Southeast Asia tour, 60,000 tickets for their Kuala Lumpur show on April 30 sold out within hours. The rush prompted organiser Hello Universe to add a second date at...

Hong Kong and Guangzhou’s horse industry cooperation will enter a critical phase when the first of regular race meetings is held at Conghua racecourse in October, with the Jockey Club aiming to showcase “world-class racing and entertainment” to the mainland. A key pillar of China’s five-year National Equine Industry Development Plan, Conghua – which is situated 150km north of the Hong Kong-China border – will host the first of what is believed to be four race meetings for the 2026-27 season on...

China have named several Olympic champions in their squad for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games next month, including two foreign-born speed skaters who won gold medals for their countries of birth. The champions in the 124-strong team include skiers Eileen Gu and Xu Mengtao, snowboarder Su Yiming and figure skating pair Sui Wenjing and Han Cong. Also in the squad are South Korean-born Lin Xiaojun and Hungarian-born Liu Shaoang, who are both speed skaters and first-time...