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Hong Kong authorities have shelved a controversial reclamation project to build three artificial islands in the sea off Lantau, with the development minister saying the government does not have the “necessary conditions” to start. Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn Hon-ho made it clear for the first time on Wednesday that the current administration would not…
Islamabad (International Desk) – Human rights organization Amnesty International has alleged that Pakistani authorities are carrying out large-scale illegal surveillance of citizens. According to the report, a sophisticated internet firewall and telecommunication system are being used to monitor phone calls and online activities across the country. Amnesty claims that Pakistani agencies have the capacity to…
Hong Kong transport authorities will use artificial intelligence to assess the fitness of elderly professional drivers in a trial run set to start later this year, aiming to enhance the reliability of tests for older motorists. Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan told the Legislative Council on Wednesday that the medical assessment trial would…
The federal government has become the largest shareholder in the semiconductor company Intel. Is that a good idea? Call it socialism if you like. Others do. “It,” of course, is the government taking ownership positions in companies. The latest example is the 10% stake in Intel that President Donald Trump demanded in exchange for Intel’s…
Hong Kong has signed nine agreements with belt and road countries, with companies sealing dozens of business deals worth nearly US$1 billion (HK$7.8 billion), the city’s leader announced at a major summit, pledging to enter into more collaborations in the future. At the 10th edition of the two-day Belt and Road Summit on Wednesday, Chief…
After a meeting hosted by the French President Emmanuel Macron on September 4, 26 countries have pledged to create a “reassurance force” to provide security guarantees for Ukraine if a peace agreement with Russia is reached. The Russian president reacted by saying that Russia would target any European troops deployed in Ukraine. He said if…
In 2006, he founded the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) – a non-profit environmental research organisation based in Beijing. At the time, data collected by his organisation showed around 28 per cent of monitored water sources nationwide were severely polluted and rendered unusable, leaving nearly 300 million people without sufficient clean drinking water,…
During the first two decades of the 20th century, European science experienced a revolution. Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity offered a new model of the macrocosmos, while Niels Bohr and others developed the atomic model of the microcosmos. However, the two models resisted integration into a “theory of everything.” At the heart of the problem…
Members of the Brics nations logged into a virtual summit on Monday, convened by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, intending to take a defiant stand against US President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. Instead, the quickly assembled outing became an exercise in caution, as the bloc’s heavyweights, Brazil and India, sought to steer…
The real but little recognized story this week is not that China’s exports slowed – a notion which has been generating doom-laden headlines around the world – but rather that they are still growing. Shipments abroad rose 4.4% year on year in August, the weakest pace in half a year, but still an expansion at…
