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China’s under-23 football team are on the verge of winning their first ever AFC U-23 Asian Cup after defying expectations at the tournament in Saudi Arabia. Following the young team’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam in the semi-finals, they will face Japan in Saturday’s final, after the Japanese team beat South Korea 1-0 in the other semi-final. The Chinese football team have taken part in all seven editions of the tournament since its inception in 2013, but had never made it out of the group...

One of two domestic helpers in Hong Kong earlier arrested for allegedly abusing two small children faces a holding charge of ill-treatment after one of the boys, a four-month-old infant, was hospitalised with a brain haemorrhage and injuries consistent with shaken baby syndrome. Chief Inspector Tam Ching-shan of the Tai Po district crime unit said on Wednesday that the two helpers, aged 28 and 45, worked in the same household as the infant and his 16-month-old brother, who was also found with...

A sweeping shake-up on when Malaysian children can start school and how they are assessed has sparked fresh anxiety among parents, many of whom fear an “optional” earlier entry would fuel a de facto race, while schools may struggle with space and staffing. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday that children would be allowed to enter Year One of primary school at age six from 2027, a year earlier than the current norm, alongside a new standardised assessment framework known as the Malaysia...

Freezing temperatures are rare in Hong Kong, and frost is rarer still. But in decades past, a handful of particularly cold days transformed Tai Mo Shan into an ice-crusted winterscape. Here’s a look back at how South China Morning Post photographers captured Hong Kong’s frostiest moments from the 1970s to the 2010s.