... rs reports. As the third impeachment trial in US history began in earnest on Tuesday, senators voted 53-47 along party lines to block a motion from Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to subpoena State De ...More
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Boeing Co. said it does not expect to win approval for the return of the 737 MAX to service until mid-year due to further potential developments in the certification process and regulatory scrutiny on ...More
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US President Donald Trump touted the success of the American economy in Davos on Tuesday, dismissing “perennial prophets of doom” on climate change, Reuters reports. Speaking to an audience that inclu ...More
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... investors. The Hang Seng Index, which has been buoyed over the past weeks by the initial trade agreement between China and the United States, lost more than 800 points to close 2.81 percent lower at ...More
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... rs reports. The agency, however, moved its outlook to stable from negative. “The absence of tangible plans to address either the political or economic and social concerns of the Hong Kong population t ...More
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The role of corporate boards has never been more important, nor subject to as much scrutiny, as it is today. The technological, environmental, geopolitical, and socioeconomic transformations of the pa ...More
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... o election. He told reporters that he is now making a joint effort with the other two honorary party chairpersons -- Miriam Lau Kin-yee and Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee -- as well as former financial se ...More
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... protesters. There have been some allegations that the vandalism may have been carried out by undercover police officers posing as protesters, so as to create an excuse for the law enforcement to stop ...More
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... rs reports. Putin also replaced Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, who had held the role since 2006, a move suggesting his planned changes could reach beyond the political system and the government. In a ...More
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A lawyer for Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou argued in a Canadian court that “double criminality” was at the center of a trial to decide whether she can be extradited to the United States, Reuters reports. ...More
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South Korea reported on Monday its first confirmed case of a new coronavirus that has broken out in China, Reuters reports, citing South Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). The ...More
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... oung guns”. Amid this situation, it appears some District Officers (DOs), who are government representatives at the district level under the Home Affairs Bureau, have come up with some “outside-the-bo ...More
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Police fired tear gas at a pro-democracy rally in Central on Sunday after some protesters blocked roads, set fires, engaged in vandalism and attacked officers. The protest, although approved by the po ...More
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Last week, I mentioned two startups -- Tink Labs and WeWork -- that either crashed or suffered major setbacks last year. Let us now take a look at Airbnb, the home-sharing rental startup that plans to ...More
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... nd bigotry. Most, however, were celebrating the president’s tax cuts for billionaires and corporations and looking forward to his efforts to deregulate the economy. That would allow businesses to poll ...More
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... rs reports. “We are trying to read the black boxes here in Iran. Otherwise, our options are Ukraine and France, but no decision has been taken so far to send them to another country,” Hassan Rezaifar, ...More
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Recently, I traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Learning that I had come from Hong Kong, the first thing a cab driver there asked me was: is the unrest now under control? Some other ethnic Chinese cab ...More
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Hurlyburly is a children's game. Or a drinking game, some might argue.That sounds rather extreme, but I'm sure it works in both situations. It is a dexterity game about building towers and using catap ...More
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... for Taiwan. “We don't have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,” Tsai said in the BBC interview. “We are an independent country already and we call ourselves the Republic of China (Taiwan ...More
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... nwarranted. If anyone needs to apologize, it is the "rioters", Chris Tang Ping-keung said on Thursday, as he rejected accusations of police brutality and reiterated that the force had been the target ...More
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