Hong Kong’s signature street food such as egg waffles and fish balls, as well as restaurants with local characteristics, are among popular dining choices for mainland Chinese tourists visiting the city at the start of the Labour Day “golden week” holiday on Thursday. Mainland visitors were seen queuing at traditional noodle shops, the city’s iconic…
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Voters across England will go to the polls today to elect councillors, mayors and, in one constituency, a new MP. It is the first major test of the public mood since the general election last July, when Keir Starmer became prime minister on the back of Labour’s landslide victory. A total of 1,641 council seats…
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On Thursday, the Chinese market was closed for the May Day holiday, and spot gold fell below $3,230 per ounce during the session, with a daily decline of 1.77%. According to Goldman Sachs commodity trader Adam Gillard, ahead of the May Day holiday, Chinese traders sold nearly 1 million ounces of gold through the Shanghai…
The UK has had the hottest May 1 on record, after temperatures climbed to 28C in Kew Gardens, southwest London. Emergency services warned people to take care if they tried to cool off in lakes, rivers and the sea, and that the heat and recent dry spells meant a higher risk of wildfires. The temperature…
Anna Mathsen of Eden Prairie, a senior in professional and technical communication at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, has created a digital fashion portfolio of apparel collections in advance of the university’s May 3 WEAR Fashion Show. Mathsen created the portfolio, her digital humanities capstone project, via a photo shoot in a specialized university lab. The…
President Donald Trump’s massive China tariffs are jeopardizing American fireworks shows, threatening to drive up prices and limit supplies. U.S. fireworks wholesalers and distributors say they’ve been canceling shipments from China for this year’s July Fourth holiday. Some are also halting manufacturing in China of fireworks for next year’s celebrations of the 250th anniversary of…
More than 213,000 mainland Chinese visitors flocked to Hong Kong on the first day of the Labour Day “golden week” holiday on Thursday, looking forward to some hiking, treating their taste buds at street food stalls and restaurants, and enjoying a dazzling drone show in the night sky above Victoria Harbour. Immigration Department data showed…