A banner on front end of a bus features images of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and China’s Xi Jinping (Image credits: AP) China on Sunday demanded the release of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife after they were captured by US forces in a “large-scale strike.” Condemning Washington’s actions, China urged the US to…
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Hong Kong police have arrested three people, including a local singer, after seizing 10 kilograms of drugs with a market value of HK$7.7 million (US$988,118) from a village house in Yuen Long on Saturday. Sources identified the singer as Kris Law Kai-chung, 35, who made his debut in 2015 and rose to fame in 2018…
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: The U.S. attack on Venezuela will embolden China to strengthen its territorial claims over areas such as Taiwan and parts of the South China Sea but will not hasten any potential invasion of Taiwan, analysts said. Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s considerations about Taiwan and his timeline are separate from the situation in Latin America,…
Liam Rosenior has done little to dampen suggestions that he is on course to become Chelsea’s new manager, sticking by past comments about his desire to work in the Premier League while failing to rule out the possibility that Strasbourg’s Ligue 1 draw with OGC Nice was his “last match” in charge of the French…
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SEOUL South Korea‘s President Lee Jae Myung left for China on Sunday, eager to boost economic ties with Seoul’s largest trading partner while keeping a lid on potentially explosive issues such as Taiwan. Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his four-day trip comes less than a week…
During his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pledged to end “forever wars”, abandon “nation-building” interventions and focus instead on reviving a US economy that, in his telling, had been deindustrialised by a floodtide of imports. Though Trump’s electoral victories cannot be attributed to any one thing, his “America first” narrative certainly struck a chord. But Trump’s…
Hong Kong ranked fourth in a university study on air transit connectivity at 16 aviation hubs across the Asia-Pacific in 2023. Researchers from the National Taiwan Ocean University’s transport science department also said Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou experienced declines in connectivity following the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper was published in the Asian Journal of Shipping…