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Hong Kong health authorities are investigating a carbon monoxide poisoning incident involving a 31-year-old man, who lost consciousness and sustained a head injury after smoking shisha at a Mong Kok bar. But Hubbly Bubbly, the bar in question, told the Post on Tuesday it stopped offering shisha in the middle of last year and saw…
Mr. Dong (Albert) Li, CFO of Tims China, commented, “We continued to demonstrate our capabilities to further improving our financial performance by refining store unit economics and driving efficiencies at both store and corporate levels. We further improved our company owned and operated store contribution margin and adjusted corporate EBITDA margin by 5.9 percentage points…
Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said he ordered the IDF to “respond forcefully” to Iran’s violation of a ceasefire agreement brokered by President Donald Trump, calling for “high-intensity strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.” Source link
A federal jury on Monday awarded $500,000 to the widow and estate of a police officer who died by suicide nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of rioters, including a man who scuffled with the officer during the attack. The eight-member jury ordered that man, 69-year-old chiropractor David Walls-Kaufman,…
China’s National Development and Reform Commission plans to set up a state-backed venture capital fund focused on robotics, AI and cutting-edge innovation. The long-term fund is expected to attract nearly 1 trillion yuan (approximately $140 billion) in capital from local governments and the private sector over 20 years. This initiative aims to continue China’s technology-driven…
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran is assessing damage to its nuclear industry and arrangements had been made for its restoration, Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said on Tuesday according to Mehr news, after a series of Israeli and U.S. strikes targeted Iran’s main nuclear facilities. “The plan is to … Source link
About 100 passengers were affected after a Qatar Airways flight from Hong Kong to Doha was cancelled on Tuesday morning after the country temporarily closed its airspace in anticipation of retaliatory attacks by Iran on a United States airbase near the capital. Qatar Airways flight 815 was scheduled to depart from Hong Kong for Doha…
President Trump on Tuesday heads to Brussels for a whirlwind NATO summit at the Hague, Netherlands, hours after he announced that Iran and Israel had reached a ceasefire agreement. The president hoped to secure during the summit a commitment from NATO allies to spend at least 5% of GDP on defense. But a day…
China’s finance ministry said on Tuesday the next president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank would be Zou Jiayi, a former Chinese vice finance minister who is expected to lead efforts to expand the lender’s presence in major global financial centres. Source link
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