... le on duty. Media workers at protest sites should avoid staying close to police cordon lines when dispersal actions and arrests are being conducted, the police said. In a regular press briefing on Mo ...More
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A 12-year-old boy in Australia and his dog have escaped a fire that was lapping his family’s farmhouse by grabbing the keys to his brother’s pick-up truck and driving to safety. Lucas Sturrock was hom ...More
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The food delivery market has been flooded with capital, paving way for the rise of a new batch of online platforms. As firms seek to stand out from the crowd, Ritual, a Toronto-headquartered startup h ...More
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Despite delivering some of the best returns of any equity market globally over the last century, Australian companies are frequently overlooked by global investors, in our view. Australia accounts for ...More
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Swiss drugmaker Roche has won US antitrust approval for its US$4.3 billion deal to buy gene therapy specialist Spark Therapeutics, clearing the way for Roche’s push into treating rare diseases includi ...More
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China and Russia proposed that the UN Security Council lift a ban on North Korea exporting statues, seafood and textiles, Reuters said, citing a draft resolution. The draft also called for a ban to be ...More
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... to plummet. Among the respondents, over 59 percent said they don’t trust the government, as compared to just 30 percent who expressed a similar opinion in a previous poll in May, while only 15 percent ...More
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... der events.” Just three months since that announcement, the International Expert Panel (IEP), after completing the initial phase of its work, has suddenly called it quits, complaining that there is a ...More
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Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, recently marked the 50th anniversary of his organization by unveiling a new ‘Davos Manifesto’. His aim is to ask what sort of ...More
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... ncy action. The COP25 talks in Madrid were viewed as a test of governments’ collective will to heed the advice of science to cut greenhouse gas emissions more rapidly, in order to prevent rising globa ...More
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... th service. After winning a commanding majority in last week’s election, Johnson will seek to speed up the approval by parliament of his withdrawal agreement with the European Union, and to start plow ...More
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... on Sunday. Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation” program, Lighthizer said there would be some routine “scrubs” to the text but “this is totally done, absolutely,” Reuters reports. A date for senior US a ...More
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... ion by Jan. 31. For Johnson, who campaigned on a vow to “Get Brexit Done”, victory was a vindication after anti-Brexit opponents tried one manoeuver after another to thwart him during his first chaoti ...More
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Thousands of people gathered in Tai Wai on Thursday night to pay tribute to a student who died from injuries after a fall from a carpark in Tsueng Kwan O last month. The death of Alex Chow Tsz-lok, a ...More
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Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah has again denied a report of The Financial Times that she had offered to quit, saying she was impressed by “the writers’ abilities to make up stories”. In s ...More
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... deployment. This week, all the members of the International Expert Panel (IEP) said that they were quitting. The Wall Street Journal cited Clifford Stott, one of the panel members, as saying that tha ...More
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December is the second consecutive month that a new stock from the commercial property space has listed on the local exchange. ESR Cayman (01821.HK), a Beijing-based logistics operator with portfolio ...More
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Japanese retailer MUJI recently lost a drawn-out trademark battle with a local company in China. MUJI, founded in 1980, entered China market in 2005. It opened its first store in Shanghai, and later f ...More
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The year 2019 will be remembered for the cataclysm brought about by the much-reviled and now-scrapped extradition bill and the massive, often violent, protests that it has engendered in Hong Kong. The ...More
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