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A runner spotted carrying a baby during the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday has raised safety concerns and sparked heated debate online about how the man was able to get on the course. A widely circulated video on social media, which appears to have been taken by another runner, shows the man with a baby strapped to his chest, a backpack on his back, glasses slipping down his face and a phone in his hand. The footage appears to show the man running along the West Kowloon Highway...

The 19th Asian Financial Forum (AFF) kicks off in Hong Kong next week, highlighting the city’s strategic role in facilitating cross-border investment. The forum would focus on helping mainland Chinese start-ups go global through Hong Kong initial public offerings (IPOs), while providing international firms with a gateway to the mainland, HSBC Hong Kong CEO Maggie Ng said on Monday. Titled “Co-creating New Horizons amid an Evolving Landscape”, the annual government flagship event will run from...

On January 13, the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA) Association released its provisional list of contenders for the 44th edition of the city’s most prestigious film ceremony. The film list is meant to be a routine administrative update, a roll-call of the artistic output from the 2025 calendar year, and the definitive source of reference for HKFA voters filling out their nomination forms. However, this year’s list quickly threw the industry into turmoil. In an unprecedented development, four...

Relics are often presented as art; rarely does the opposite occur. But Beijing-based artist Bingyi has been doing just that, by blurring the lines between history and fiction. The 51-year-old, who is surnamed Huang but goes by her artist’s name, has an in-depth understanding of Chinese history. She grew up reading classical Chinese texts under the influence of her scholar grandfather and went on to earn a PhD in Chinese art at Yale University, in the United States. But none of that has...

The Classic Mile is less than two weeks away and it shapes as one of the most competitive editions in recent years, with at least half a dozen four-year-olds staking their claims as leading candidates. All eyes will be on the Jockey Club’s release of the priority to run list on Wednesday to see what rating is needed to gain a coveted berth in the field of 14. The Post has ranked the top 10 prospects for the Classic Mile on February 1. 1. Invincible Ibis While it is difficult to split many of the...