A total of 6,022 people have been arrested for protest-related offenses since June 9, when about a million took to the streets to oppose the now-withdrawn extradition bill. As the protests entered its ...More
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... ers (CAAM). Total vehicle sales in the country fell 3.6 percent last month compared to the same period in 2018, according to the nation's biggest auto industry association. That follows a drop of 4 pe ...More
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... sumed dead. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said reconnaissance flights showed no signs of life on White Island, as eyewitnesses detailed the horrific burns suffered by survivors, most of them tourists. ...More
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Last week, leaders of its 29 member states gathered for a two-day summit in London. And for the v ...More
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Six months after the launch of the extradition bill-related protest movement, Hong Kong continues to grapple with large-scale street demonstrations and elevated public anger toward the establishment. ...More
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... Hong Kong. In a statement marking Human Rights Day, the government declared the “great importance” it attaches to “its constitutional duty to safeguard and protect human rights and freedoms”. It also ...More
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The government denounced what it termed as arson attacks outside the premises of two high-level courts on Sunday, warning that it will not tolerate violent acts that undermine the rule of law. “The ar ...More
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... s detained. The United States and some Western nations have issued sharp rebukes after the United Nations and rights groups estimated between 1 million and 2 million people, mostly ethnic Uighurs, wer ...More
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... an welfare. The Human Development Index, published by the United Nations Development Programme, aggregates indicators of life expectancy, education, and per capita income and has long been available a ...More
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China’s second-largest short-video app Kuaishou has raised US$3 billion in a pre-IPO round led by Tencent (00700.HK). Interestingly, Yunfeng Capital, backed by Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma, also joined t ...More
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Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah had never offered to quit during her trip to London last month, her office said, denying a report of The Financial Times. The newspaper cited three people f ...More
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... nificance”. “Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way. He signed a strong Denuclearization Agreement with me in Singapore,” Trump said on ...More
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Vast crowds of black-clad demonstrators thronged Hong Kong on Sunday in the largest anti-government protest since the Nov. 24 District Council elections. It was the first time since August that the Ci ...More
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Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk emerged victorious from a closely watched defamation trial as a federal court jury swiftly rejected the US$190 million claim brought against him by a British cave ...More
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... inst women. The men had been in police custody and were shot near the scene of last week’s crime, said N Prakash Reddy, a deputy commissioner of police in Shamshabad, near Hyderabad. “In the morning, ...More
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MTR Corp. expects a decline in full-year profit amid a drop in passenger numbers and massive vandalism to its train stations and facilities during the months-long protests, the Hong Kong Economic Jour ...More
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... ctatorship. When the Nobel peace prize laureate returns next week, her first trip to the region since a 2017 military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar, it will be to face accusations o ...More
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Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said. ...More
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Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. said it had received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault, including rape, related to its trips in the United States in 2018, at a time when it operated r ...More
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