TOPSHOT – US President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Andrew Caballero-reynolds | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on countries doing business with Iran has raised…
America’s top defence official declared that the US must achieve unquestioned AI “dominance” to prevent adversaries from gaining a technological edge, as he unveiled a strategy that includes integrating Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth’s announcement did not mention China by name, but it came a month after a report to the…
A UN agency and a charity established by former Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying have agreed to strengthen collaboration on public health projects, following talks in Switzerland. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, met GX Foundation chairman Leung and CEO Emily Chan Ying-yang in Geneva, the charity said in a social…
Batteries in electric vehicles that regularly use 100-plus-kilowatts fast chargers degrade faster than those that rely primarily on slow charging, a new study suggests. Using fast chargers more frequently can cause some packs to lose nearly a quarter of their capacity in eight years, it claims. We’ve seen other studies suggest that fast charging has…
File photo of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning | Photo Credit: AP China on Monday (January 12, 2026) reaffirmed its territorial claims over the Shaksgam Valley in the backdrop of India’s objections, stressing that the Chinese infrastructure projects in the area are “beyond reproach”. India last Friday (January 9) criticised China’s infrastructure development projects…
Hong Kong, China, January 13th, 2026, Chainwire HashSTACS.HK, a global digital asset infrastructure provider, today announced that it has been named to the “KPMG China 2025 FinTech 50” list, in recognition of its continued innovation and regulatory leadership in the financial technology sector. Official KPMG announcement: https://kpmg.com/cn/zh/home/campaigns/2026/01/re-china-fintech-50-2025.html HashSTACS.HK was also recognized as a representative company…
Donald Trump has said “it would be a complete mess” if the US supreme court were to strike down his global trade tariffs. In a lengthy post on social media, the US president said “WE’RE SCREWED” if the supreme court rules against the tariffs, before the decision, which could come as soon as Wednesday. It…
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Ryan O’HanlonJan 13, 2026, 08:31 AM Close Ryan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.” We’ve already celebrated the not-quite-but-it’s-the-best-we-can-do halfway point of the Premier League season by looking backward. Last week, I picked out my award winners for the first slightly-more-than-half…
Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao is winding up its operations in Canada by the end of this month, marking the closure of all newsrooms run by the city’s major print publications in the North American country. Employees working for the Toronto and Vancouver editions of Ming Pao Newspapers (Canada) were notified of the decision on…