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Organisers of the Hong Kong Victoria Harbour Race are considering recruiting mainland Chinese lifeguards to increase the participant limit to beyond 10,000 after more than 3,700 swimmers, including National Games medallist Siobhan Haughey, joined Saturday’s annual event. Hong Kong China Swimming Association President Ronnie Wong Man-chiu told the media after the event that the key…
The Dutch government’s latest decision to halt its intervention in Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, may ease tensions with Beijing but it underscores what analysts describe as an accelerating Western push to decouple from China’s semiconductor supply chain. To understand the dynamic, start with the less-than-two-months sequence of events leading up to and including the latest…
In a spacious three-storey village house in Sai Kung on a recent sunny Saturday, Chen Wei and his family were unpacking the final boxes after their move from Shenyang, the capital of China’s northeast Liaoning province. Having come with his wife and two sons under Hong Kong’s Top Talent Pass Scheme, Chen, an e-commerce expert,…
China is on the rampage after Prime MinisterSanae Takaichisaid what wasneither new nor surprising– thatTaiwanis immensely important to Japan, and that Japan may consider coming to Taiwan’s defense if China attacks. In response, China’sConsul General in Osakasaid on social media that PM Takaichi should be beheaded. Beijing presumably agreed with its consul general and has…
Lau Chor-hi was sentenced on Friday for causing the death of student Wong Ho-chun, 17, after speeding along a bridge section of Kwai Tsing Road in the early hours of July 3, 2024. West Kowloon Court heard that the defendant’s taxi was moving at 85 to 103km/h (52.8 to 64mph) when it crashed into Wong’s…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man for allegedly stealing five credit cards from the luggage of two passengers on a flight from Abu Dhabi to the city, the Post has learned. A source said on Friday that the man, 52, was arrested a day earlier at Hong Kong International Airport after two passengers filed…
A jar of “carbonara sauce” for sale at the European Parliament in Brussels has whipped up Italian emotions after criticism that it does not contain the right ingredients. Italy’s agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida unleashed his ire earlier this week after posting a picture of the offending pot on social media. The minister decried the sauce…
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Ukraine faced losing its dignity and freedom or Washington’s support over a US peace plan that endorses key Russian demands and which Donald Trump said Kyiv should agree to by Thursday. The US president told Fox News Radio he believed next Thursday was an appropriate deadline for Kyiv…
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum. It is republished with permission. The geoeconomic shock from the United States’ “Liberation Day” tariffs has pushed members of ASEAN closer to China’s economic orbit. While deeper economic integration helps mitigate the growing uncertainty of international trade, it also makes ASEAN an increasingly vulnerable target for Beijing’s…
A grizzly bear attacked a group of schoolchildren and teachers on a walking trail in British Columbia, Canada, injuring 11 people, two of them critically. The attack happened on Thursday afternoon in Bella Coola, 700km (435 miles) northwest of Vancouver. The Nuxalk Nation said the “aggressive bear” remained on the loose on Thursday evening and…
