Hong Kong retailers and restaurant operators expect a business boost from the National Games, with one shopping centre near competition venues already reporting a roughly 20 per cent increase in weekday footfall helped by early sporting events. Malls across the city also plan to capitalise on the Games, which officially open on Sunday and run…
PUBLISHED November 09, 2025 During the recent flooding which led to a devastating situation leading to despair, the fragility of traditional, large-scale agriculture was laid bare. This widespread disaster severely devastated fields, farms, farmers, and agricultural produce across rural areas, highlighting a profound systemic vulnerability. It was yet another challenge for the entrepreneurial sibling duo,…
Whom should you start? Whom should you sit? To help you set your fantasy football lineups and avoid starting an offensive player who won’t be in the lineup, we’ll post fantasy-relevant updates and analysis here as NFL teams release their official inactives lists. Official Sunday inactives should begin coming in approximately 90 minutes before the…
Stephen Colbert revealed why he tends to play “poorly informed” characters, including his Strangers With Candy character Charles “Chuck” Noblet, while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Comedy Central series’ cancellation during the New York Comedy Festival on Saturday. During a Q&A at the event, the cast was asked what their characters say about their…
A recent furore over the future of a popular independent bookstore has shone a fresh spotlight on concerns that the space for public debates and cultural events in China is shrinking. The announcement that the You Xing Bookstore in Chengdu – a venue that had hosted a number of events featuring prominent Chinese and foreign…
Eimear DevlinBBC Money Box reporter Eve Craven Eve Craven had her child benefit halted after she went on a five-day trip to New York with her son The UK’s tax body is reviewing its decisions to strip child benefit from about 23,500 claimants after it used travel data to conclude they had left the country…
Now’s a great time to pick up a new MacBook Air if you’ve been thinking about taking the plunge. Amazon has the M4-powered, 13-inch MacBook Air for a record-low price of $749 right now. The 25 percent discount applies to multiple colors, too. We ranked this as our favorite Apple laptop in our list of…
Some of the banks have not publicly disclosed any climate policies aligned with the Paris Agreement in lending and investment activities. photo: file ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to obtain two foreign loans worth $1 billion for enhancing efficiency of the tax machinery, accountability of expenses and ensuring compliance with state-owned enterprises law — objectives that…
Green Bay Packers star pass rusher Micah Parsons will line up Monday night against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Dallas Cowboys went out of their way over the summer to ensure Parsons would not play for the division-rival Eagles — at least not anytime soon. Unbeknownst to everyone except the few who crafted the August blockbuster…
Whew. Dan Trachtenberg is the hero of the hour as his new movie, Predator: Badlands, has ended the drought at the domestic box office and kicked off November in high style. The movie opened well ahead of expectations to top the domestic box office chart with a franchise-best $40 million (prerelease tracking had it opening…
