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A Chinese PhD graduate and his wife have turned a Chongqing spicy pea noodle stall in Belgium into a viral sensation, earning more than 1000 euros (US$1,200) a day. According to the mainland outlet Jimu News, graduate Ding, 37, is from Jiangsu province in eastern China. After completing his doctorate in China, he went to…
Hong Kong can help Asia fill a staggering climate-financing gap by helping to tap a global pool of more than US$200 trillion to fund sustainable-infrastructure projects, according to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). There was a glaring disconnect between the vast amount of available capital and the low deployment of funds for climate action…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the deadline for TikTok’s US shutdown for the fourth time in his second term ahead of a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the fate of the Chinese-owned short video app. In an executive order issued on Tuesday, Trump set the new deadline for December 16. The…
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man charged with murder on Tuesday in the shooting of Charlie Kirk, sent a text message confessing to his partner and hid a note beforehand saying he had the chance to kill one of the nation’s leading conservative voices “and I’m going to take it”, a prosecutor said. DNA on…
Kash Patel defended his tenure as FBI director before a US Senate panel on Tuesday, angrily pushing back on questions about his handling of the investigation into the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the firings of veteran officials. Patel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee came as critics, including some allies of US…
Maurene Comey, a former federal prosecutor who brought criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has sued US President Donald Trump’s administration over her abrupt July firing, court records showed on Monday. Comey, the eldest daughter of former Federal Bureau of Investigation director and long-time Trump adversary James…
The United States and Britain plan to announce more than US$10 billion in economic deals this week as part of US President Donald Trump’s state visit, senior US officials said on Monday. The two governments are expected to seal a trade agreement with three pillars: a new science and technology partnership to strengthen the tech…
A British aristocrat and her partner were on Monday both jailed for 14 years for the manslaughter of their baby daughter by gross negligence, as they sought to avoid detection by social services and briefly sparked a nationwide manhunt. Constance Marten – whose father was once a page to the late Queen Elizabeth – and…
Hong Kong’s Leung Chun-ying has received a top honour from Cambodian officials in recognition of his contributions to healthcare, with the former city leader revealing that his charity hopes to clear a backlog of cataract-related blindness cases in the country. Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Neth Savoeun on Monday awarded Leung the Knight Grand Officer class…
