Global financial investors are pouring into Hong Kong in a low profile way to stay under the radar and avoid undue attention because of rising geopolitical tension, said the head of the city’s de facto sovereign wealth fund. “We see a great velocity of [capital] flow, although in a very low profile way,” said Clara…
Guy DelauneyBBC Balkans correspondent ADNAN BECI/AFP The new minister, named Diella, has already been active as a bot, guiding applicants through a process to obtain official documents. For government officials, being called “heartless” is an occupational hazard. But Albania has chosen to turn that insult into a positive quality, by appointing an AI minister. Not…
Sep 12, 2025, 12:32 PM ET Week 2 gets started with a matchup between the Washington Commanders and Green Bay Packers, two playoff teams from last season, at Lambeau Field on Thursday night. Both teams won their Week 1 games. There are several compelling matchups Sunday, including the Chicago Bears visiting the Detroit Lions (-4.5)…
British screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne, best known for Adolescence and His Dark Materials, has been elected president of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB). Thorne, who also wrote Help, This Is England ’90andHarry Potter and the Cursed Child, steps into the role vacated by Sandi Toksvig at the union, which represents professional writers…
Thailand’s stock market has long been seen as cheap, but the discount has deepened into something structural. This year, the SET index trades near 1.1 times book value, the lowest in decades, compared with close to two times for regional peer Vietnam and more than 2.3 times for Indonesia. Dividend yields topping 4% might suggest…
Sep 12, 2025, 04:00 AM ET All of the Premier League‘s biggest clubs are monitoring Ajax midfielder Jorthy Mokio, while Chelsea are in talks over signing another talented South American teenager in Deinner Ordóñez. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s…
More than 300 South Koreans who were detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US state of Georgia have arrived back home. Their return comes as the country’s president and Hyundai’s chief executive have warned about the impact of the raid. A chartered Korean Air jet carrying the workers and…
Digital content creator and actor Nolan Hansen has signed with CAA for representation. Hansen secured viral fame as the quirky underdog character on MrBeast’s YouTube challenge channels, or the heavily-subscribed online channels run by Jimmy Donaldson as part of his MrBeast empire. That led to Hansen becoming a series regular on Amazon’s competition reality series…
China has confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the US House of Representatives will visit the country later this month for the first time in over six years. “China welcomes Representative Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, to lead a delegation to visit China,” Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the…
Convicted South African rapist Thabo Bester has lost a court bid to block Netflix from broadcasting a documentary about his life – including how he allegedly faked his death and escaped from prison. His lawyers argued that Beauty and the Bester was defamatory, but the streaming giant defended its plan to release the three-part investigation….
