This year, we will witness quite a number of important political elections in the world. The list includes Taiwan's presidential and legislative elections, which concluded last Saturday, Hong Kong's l ...More
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... ar in 2020. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) expects a 2 percent fall in vehicle sales. That would compare with an 8.2 percent drop last year, when sales were pressured by new ...More
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... al reports. The government tabled the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2019 to the Legislative Council on Jan. 8, seeking to increase the statutory maternity leave from the current 10 weeks to 14 weeks. Bu ...More
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Ford Motor Co.’s China vehicle sales fell for a third consecutive year, by 26.1 percent, as it battles a prolonged overall sales decline in its second-biggest market that has hit demand for its mass-m ...More
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Thousands of people staged a rally on Sunday calling on the international community to impose sanctions on Hong Kong officials perceived to be trampling on the human rights of local citizens. Organize ...More
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... rs reports. Benedict wrote the book, From the Depths of Our Hearts, with Cardinal Robert Sarah, 74, a Guinean prelate who heads the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the ...More
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... e to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” one group of protesters chanted outside a university in Tehran, according to video posted on Twitter. Other posts showe ...More
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The global head of Human Rights Watch said he was denied entry to Hong Kong, where he was scheduled to launch the organization’s latest world report this week, Reuters reports. Kenneth Roth, the group ...More
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Beijing said it will not change its position that Taiwan belongs to China after President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election and said she would not submit to China’s threats, Reuters reports. The election c ...More
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... ts in Iraq. Iran had denied for days after Wednesday’s crash that it brought down the plane, although a top Revolutionary Guards commander said on Saturday that he had informed the authorities about t ...More
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Last month, President Xi Jinping paid an official visit to Macau to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the city’s handover to Chinese sovereignty. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets on the mainland we ...More
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The world is watching what choice Taiwan makes as the only Chinese-speaking democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, as the island's citizens prepare to vote in weekend elections. "To choose ...More
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TAIPEI -- Will it be fish or vegetables? Before you start thinking about food and menus, I'm actually talking about the presidential election in Taiwan on Saturday. Kuomintang candidate Han Kuo-yu, wh ...More
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A group of prominent internet pioneers is mobilizing to block the US$1.1 billion sale of control of the .org internet domain, arguing that the takeover of .org by a newly formed private company would ...More
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Over the past three months, the House Committee of the Legislative Council has already held 11 meetings, all of which were presided by lawmaker Dennis Kwok Wing-hang of the Civic Party. But up to now, ...More
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... (WHO) said. The United Nations health agency said on Wednesday it needed more comprehensive information to confirm precisely the type of pathogen causing the infections, adding that a new coronavirus ...More
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