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Hong Kong’s leader has announced that the Yau Ma Tei section of the 4.7km Central Kowloon Bypass will open on December 21, cutting commute time between West Kowloon and Kai Tak from 30 minutes to just five. The 3.9km tunnel section is part of a larger route that connects Kowloon East in Tseung Kwan O…
The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic members of the US Congress who in a video message told members of the military they can legally refuse to carry out unlawful orders, a Justice Department official said on Tuesday. The Pentagon on Monday threatened to recall Senator Mark Kelly, a US Navy veteran and one…
The United States’ ability to build vital maritime ships and submarines was pivotal to its rise as a global superpower. However, longstanding complacency has caused the US shipbuilding industry to stagnate, undermining its readiness for today’s pressing security challenges. The US government is now brainstorming methods to revitalize shipbuilding and is engaging in various diplomatic…
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine was ready to advance a US-backed framework for ending the war with Russia and discuss disputed points with US President Donald Trump in talks he said should include European allies. US and Ukrainian officials have been trying to narrow the gaps between them over Trump’s plan to…
Total revenue for the Hangzhou-based company reached 247.8 billion yuan (US$34.8 billion) for its financial second quarter ended September 30, beating the consensus estimate of 245.2 billion yuan by Bloomberg-polled analysts. That was more than the 2 per cent growth rate in the previous quarter. Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders fell 52 per cent…
The US is dangling the F-35 stealth fighter before Saudi Arabia, igniting a new scramble for airpower dominance in the Middle East. This month, US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced a landmark defense agreement in Washington that prominently featured the sale of advanced US weaponry, including future deliveries…
President Donald Trump picked up the phone twice in one day on Monday — first to China’s Xi Jinping, then to Japan’s Sanae Takaichi — with the world’s most important trading relationships sitting on a fault line. Investors should treat these calls as a market event and not as choreography or routine diplomacy.Indeed, when a…
Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi confirmed “the close cooperation” between Tokyo and Washington in a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, hours after Trump spoke by phone with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Takaichi said her conversation with Trump covered the strengthening of the Japan-US alliance along with the various challenges facing…
The vulnerabilities of East Asia’s submarine telecommunications cable system have become impossible to ignore in the AI age. Yet the responses proposed or recently adopted by Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the United States remain inadequate. A more creative, collaborative and effective strategy is overdue to ensure that subsea cables can meet societal demand and…
Immigration authorities in Colombia have taken 17 children into protective custody after they were rescued from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose members have been accused of sexually abusing and kidnapping minors in several countries. Gloria Esperanza Arriero, the director of Colombia’s national immigration service, said on Monday that her agency questioned nine members of the…
