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School principals in Hong Kong have urged the government to exempt substitute teachers from needing to obtain newly proposed practising certificates, to avoid placing unnecessary obstacles in the way of hiring such in-demand educators. Their calls came as the Education Bureau said last month that it was consulting the Department of Justice on the proposal…
China’s biopharmaceutical sector is said to have entered an “innovation 2.0” phase as it moves to a commercialisation mindset that could see it sideline global competitors and outpace the US – despite restrictive trade policies. In recent years, innovative drug development in the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market has rapidly approached – and in some cases…
Beijing has criticized the Netherlands for failing to help Wingtech Technology regain control of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, pushing the dispute onto the diplomatic stage again after a previous confrontation inOctober. A Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokespersonurged the Dutch government to correct its “wrongdoing” and remove the obstacles to restore stability to the global semiconductor…
US PresidentDonald Trumpon Friday issued his latest threat to attack Iran militarily, warning in asocial mediapost that theUnited Statesis “ready to go” ifTehranintensifies its crackdown on ongoing streetprotests. “If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue,” Trump wrote on Truth…
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie on Friday visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing into Gaza, where she spoke to members of the Red Crescent and truck drivers ferrying humanitarian aid, Agence France-Presse journalists said. Accompanied by an American delegation and greeted by former and current officials, Jolie said she was “honoured” to meet aid…
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker (EV) on Friday to China’s BYD, as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row. Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9 per cent from…
As Chinese live-fire drills tighten around Taiwan, a rare sighting of a mobile launcher for Taipei’s long-secret cruise missile offers a glimpse into how it plans to hold the Chinese mainland at risk—and how dangerously high the stakes of that gamble may be. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that Taiwan has moved a…
Washington’s national security establishment is once again gripped by familiar hysteria: China is “expanding” in Latin America, and America must respond. The opening of the Chancay port in Peru, China’s release of its third policy paper on the region, and growing military exchanges between Beijing and countries like Brazil have triggered predictable alarm bells among…
Twenty-one people have been arrested in a crackdown by Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency on a triad-linked syndicate accused of manipulating renovation project tenders at two residential estates in Kwun Tong, with one contract valued at about HK$33 million (US$4.2 million). The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Friday that 15 men and six women,…
Russia ratified theReciprocal Exchange of Logistics (RELOS)agreement with India inearlyDecember,practically on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit, which is why news of the move was largely lost in the media shuffle. As the name implies, RELOS grants each country’s troops, ships and aircraft logistical access to the other’s facilities, but it does not…
