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Hong Kong authorities have provided temporary tanks and vowed to improve the pipes for thousands of households in Sai Wan Ho after bitumen particles were found in water supply samples, according to a lawmaker and the management of a housing estate. Lawmaker Edward Leung Hei said on Wednesday that he had also received complaints about…
Linda Yaccarino announced Wednesday that she is stepping down as CEO at X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. Yaccarino joined X in June 2023, shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought the site. She said the decision to step down came after “two incredible years” at the company. “When @elonmusk and I first…
Today, 9 July 2025, marks ten years since Chinese authorities launched an unprecedented, nationwide crackdown against human rights lawyers and legal activists. More than 300 were interrogated, held incommunicado, subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, and sentenced to lengthy prison terms in what became known as the ‘709 Crackdown’. Global solidarity on the tenth anniversary …
(Reuters) -The Trump administration escalated its feud with Harvard University on Wednesday, saying the Department of Homeland Security planned to issue subpoenas for information about alleged misconduct by foreign students. The Departments of Education and of Health and Human Services also said in a statement they had notified the school’s accreditor that it had violated…
The United States has recorded 1,288 measles cases so far this year, the highest total in 33 years, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data out Wednesday. Just over halfway through 2025, the U.S. has now surpassed 2019’s total number of infections, when 1,274 measles cases were confirmed, which at the time was…
US President Donald Trump’s latest tax and spending act might “cause some trouble” for China, according to analysts. However, they also said Beijing may be able to benefit in certain areas if the act – known officially as the One Big Beautiful Bill – generates further political instability and damages domestic industries such as the…
Any analysis of Donald Trump’s current thinking on Russia risks getting out of date very quickly. Read too much into an individual tweet, post or off-the-cuff comment by the US president, and the danger is that your conclusions will be contradicted by tomorrow’s tweet, post or off-the-cuff comment. Believe me. I’ve been there. As today’s…
Hong Kong’s residential property market recovery is gaining traction, with transactions of lower-priced homes rising sharply on the back of improved sentiment and recent government tax relief measures. From March to May, 3,780 residential properties priced between HK$3 million (US$382,000) and HK$4 million were sold, a 73 per cent increase from the same period last…
Texas flood survivors escape rising waters inside home at night: “I didn’t think it was real” – CBS News Watch CBS News A Texas family who survived the devastating and deadly floods describe waking up in the middle of the night to rising waters inside their home. They told CBS Evening News co-anchor Maurice DuBois…
Construction in Xinjiang, China, is ramping up with one goal in mind: building AI-powered data centers that could reshape the tech landscape. With over 115,000 Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips planned for installation across more than 30 projects, China’s ambitions are clear but so are the challenges. The chips in question, including the H100 and H200, are…