New York Bought an Electric Ferry. The City Can’t Charge It.

When Ocean Park launched its Halloween celebrations in 2001, pumpkins, witches and vampires helped turn a visit to the theme park into a seasonal fright night. Twenty-five years later, haunted houses drawing on Hong Kong ghost stories share this year’s programme with family activities, live performances and a dark-fantasy collaboration with a pop star. The history of Halloween at Ocean Park is not simply a timeline of increasingly bigger productions and more elaborate effects. It is also a story...

Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.

Hong Kong’s M+ museum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris signed an agreement on October 30 to establish a three-way cultural alliance, aiming to redefine how visual culture is collected, exhibited and shared globally. The framework agreement, signed at M+ in the West Kowloon Cultural District, departs from conventional short-term blockbuster touring exhibitions and fee-based satellite franchises. With no money changing hands, the institutions will focus on...

The world’s largest crypto exchange suspended deposits and withdrawals after an apparent hack.

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In 1933, Jeanne Toussaint was appointed creative director of Cartier, and the wildly influential designer set about cementing the noble panther’s role as the indelible emblem of the storied Parisian jeweller that it remains to this day. Two years later, in Hong Kong, legendary entrepreneur Aw Boon Haw finished the construction of Haw Par Mansion, now known as Villa Haw Par, the magnificent East-meets-West edifice in Tai Hang that is also a showcase for the allure of big cats, complete with the...

Amazon on Thursday became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.

European Union (EU) trade measures threaten a projected recovery in British vehicle production next year, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) warned on Thursday.

A new generation is embracing eye-catching patching and visible mends.

Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie’s commitment to fashion reached new levels during the Paris menswear shows in June when he wore a pair of knee-high latex sock boots to the Saint Laurent show in the middle of a heatwave. And well, it was hot. The perversity of latex in the heat is of course ideal for a material once solely associated with fetishwear and underground clubs. Fashion, forever contrary, has of course long had an affinity with it. The nexus of latex’s journey from underground...

The company said it was looking into hundreds of new accounts that had placed wagers in two markets related to the election on Tuesday.