... World War Two’s Manhattan Project built the first atomic bomb, the report noted. It comes after President Donald Trump earlier this year ordered the military to update its supply chain for the niche m ...More
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... xcept for two arson incidents outside some court buildings. As society has returned to relative tranquility, the ball is now back in the government’s court. Many citizens are eagerly looking to the ad ...More
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... cite the two big takeaways from the independent Review on Antimicrobial Resistance that I led in 2014-2016. If we don’t reduce our dependency on unnecessary antibiotics and succeed in developing new ...More
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... ue. These two sectors tend to underperform the overall economy (GDP), with restaurants performing even worse than retail sales – the red line on the chart is often lower than the blue one. That retail ...More
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... Germany, two each from China and the UK and one from Malaysia. "I would strongly suggest that there is no one that has survived on the island,” police Deputy Commissioner John Tims said of the eight ...More
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... ents came two days after Hong Kong witnessed the largest anti-government rally in the city since the Nov. 24 district council elections, which gave a resounding mandate to the pro-democracy camp. Wit ...More
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Police defused two home-made bombs found near Wah Yan College Hong Kong on Queen's Road East in Wan Chai on Monday evening, saying the explosives were powerful enough to kill people. The Jesuit-run se ...More
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... the past two Olympics and Russia was stripped of its flag altogether at last year’s Pyeongchang Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping cover-ups at the 2014 Sochi Games. Monday’s sanct ...More
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... at least two weeks, according to US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data, came ahead of a Dec. 15 deadline, when US President Donald Trump has said he would impose a new round of tariffs on Chinese ...More
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Apple told a US federal court on Monday that it has "deep concerns" that two Chinese-born former employees accused of stealing trade secrets from the company will try to flee before their trials if th ...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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... more than two months on, the administration is yet to make any solid announcement about the plan. Meanwhile, there is chatter in the legal sector that the government did actually approach some retired ...More
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... organized two massive marches in June, when a million or more people took part. It was the first time police had given the group permission to hold a protest since Aug. 18. Much was riding on the outc ...More
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... or around two thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions. Coal firms could lose as much as 44 percent in value, while the world’s top oil and gas companies risk losing up to 31 percent of their curren ...More
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... that the two sides had talked almost daily, but there were currently no plans for face-to-face talks or a signing ceremony between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. With less than a week to go ...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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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two of this year’s recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, are the latest among leading economists to remind us that gross domestic product is a ...More
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It is said that one good example of the “one country, two systems” principle is Christmas, which is a major event and public holiday in Hong Kong but is not even celebrated by most people in mainland ...More
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... where the two behemoths back a startup together. Kuaishou is a major rival to China’s leading short-form video and live-streaming app Douyin, a unit of Bytedance, which is the parent of news aggregato ...More
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... rs of war two years ago. In 2017, Trump and Kim famously engaged in a war of words, with Trump calling Kim “Rocket Man” and North Korea calling Trump, now 73, a “dotard”. On Tuesday, Trump once again ...More
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