Hong Kong has recorded a 27 per cent increase in visitor numbers during the “golden week” holiday compared with the same period last year, with most of the arrivals coming from mainland China, authorities have said. Tourism chief Rosanna Law Shuk-pui said on Friday afternoon, the second day of the Labour Day holiday that will…
Former federal disaster response specialists and national environmental groups warn that DOGE job cuts may hamper the response to a major oil spill off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast this week, a leak that is fast contaminating marshlands and threatening vital wildlife habitats and fisheries. Although the amount of crude oil currently leaking out of the well…
So, Nigel Farage is now effectively the leader of the opposition and is set on a clear course to become the UK’s next prime minister. This is the triumphant Reform UK narrative in the wake of Thursday’s English local and one victorious by-election, in Runcorn and Helsby. Maybe, maybe not. Much swirling water must yet…
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President Trump’s budget proposal would cut 22% of non-defense discretionary spending next year while significantly increasing defense spending, according to a senior official with the Office of Management and Budget and information provided by the White House. The president’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 would slash non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion from current…
Britain’s anti-immigrant and Trump-aligned Reform UK party has made sweeping gains in English local elections, challenging the traditional political dominance of the country’s two main parties, Labour and the Conservatives. Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, claimed his party had overtaken the Tories as the UK’s main opposition after Reform won control of at least six…
Meredith College fashion design student Serena Danieli, ’25, recently won first place in the “Intermediate and Beyond” category at the 27th annual AATS Fashion Exposé. The competition was held on April 10, the same day as Meredith’s Celebrating Student Achievement Day, during which Danieli showed her senior collection. “My collection, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, celebrates…
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China defies ASML prediction with EUV breakthrough in advanced chip…
The Trump administration has reached a settlement with the family Ashli Babbitt, the Trump supporter who was shot and killed while in the mob breaching the House Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021. Multiple sources told CBS News the settlement has been reached in principle but is not yet signed. In a court…
1. Reform UK – 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The earliest results seemed to point at Nigel Farage’s party doing much as the polls had predicted – very well, and from a standing start, but with some squeeze from voters trying to keep it out. Thus the Runcorn and Helsby byelection, labelled by bookmakers a dead cert…