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According to the South China Morning Post, Cheung, Lau, Kwok, and Lai were dubbed the “Four Heavenly Kings” for their presence in Hong Kong’s entertainment scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Here is a look at what they have been up to in recent years. Jacky Cheung Hong Kong star Jacky Cheung performs during his…
A former UN secretary general has called for an overhaul of the United Nations to better confront global challenges as “some powerful nations” seek to undermine the institution. Ban Ki-moon, who was secretary general of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016, said in Hong Kong on Tuesday that the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza…
A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear…
Jane Dorotik has spent two decades fighting for her freedom. The California mother and wife was convicted of murdering her husband Bob in 2001, but always maintained her innocence. From prison, where she was serving a sentence of 25 years to life, Jane spent years filing motions pushing for a new examination of the evidence….
In June 2020, India and China were engaged in a skirmish along their 3,488-km border. Just four months later, around 10 in the morning on October 12, power went off in Mumbai. It was a Monday, and the outage crippled India’s city of dreams—millions were affected as mobile networks and public transport, including local trains,…
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) announced the official launch of Payment Connect, a new cross-boundary payment system linking Hong Kong’s Faster Payment System (FPS) and Mainland China’s Internet Banking Payment System (IBPS). The service will go live on June 22, 2025. At a ceremony held in Beijing,…
TL;DR: White House technology adviser David Sacks has raised concerns that China is rapidly narrowing the gap with the United States in semiconductor design, estimating the difference is now just one and a half to two years. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Sacks said Chinese companies, especially Huawei, have become adept at finding ways…
WILKES-BARRE — This week’s news that Keystone Mission will be closing two of its facilities within one month is devastating to the growing homeless population in our region. You can pontificate all you want about why so many people are in need in the area and around the country, but the fact remains that…