On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch A suspected bomb unearthed at a construction site in Hong Kong triggered a brief evacuation and police cordon on Tuesday but was later identified as a British cannon barrel,…
The image is old and cropped from the original picture taken in September 2009. As the Israel-Palestine still continues, an image showing Inter Milan football players on the pitch with children holding a Palestinian flag is going viral on social media with the claim that the Italian football team expressed solidarity with Palestine before a…
From January 1 to June 30, 2025, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-Speed Rail transported a total of 15.032 million cross-border passengers, an increase of 2.088 million compared to the same period last year, reflecting a 16.1% year-on-year increase, with a daily average of 83,000 passengers. In the first half of 2025, more than 37,000 trains operated…
Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is set to return to Wall Street as he joins Goldman Sachs in the role of senior adviser, according to a report by the Financial Times published on Tuesday. This marks Sunak’s first major professional move since stepping down as Conservative Party leader following the July 2024 general election….
It’s been a tough time for M&A deals in the fashion sector, research shows. PitchBook data shared with Modern Retail reveals that the number of global M&A deals in apparel and accessories is down nearly 40% year over year, going from 109 in the second quarter of 2024 to 66 in the second quarter of…
SHANGHAI, July 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Hydrexia Holding Limited (“Hydrexia”), a leading hydrogen technology solution provider, and China National Chemical Urban Investment Co. Ltd. (“CNCUI”), a wholly owned subsidiary of China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation Ltd., announced today that the two companies have formed a strategic alliance to jointly promote hydrogen applications across industry…
Personal income in May dipped for the first time since 2021, according to government data, but people aren’t actually getting paid less. Income fell by 0.4% in May after climbing 0.8% in April, but it was a change in Social Security payouts that drove that decline. “The outsize income gain in April was primarily pushed…
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The prosecutor made a bold prediction during her closing argument. “For 20 years, the defendant got away with his crimes — that ends in this courtroom,” declared Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey last week in the government’s case versus Sean “Diddy” Combs. “It is time to hold him accountable … the defendant is not a…
Goldman Sachs sees more gains ahead in the latter half of 2025. David Kostin, the firm’s chief U.S. equity strategist, raised his year-end S & P 500 price target to 6,600, representing a nearly 6% increase from the broad-market index’s latest closing level. Kostin also lifted his 3-month and 12-month price target on the S &…