By Angie Teo TAIPEI (Reuters) -Fu Tong and his wife Elaine To were among the first demonstrators in Hong Kong to be charged with rioting in 2020 after pro-democracy and anti-China protests started in 2019 in the former British colony. After leaving for Taiwan, Fu continued his activism and is now … Source link
Britain is set to publish on Monday a major review of its defence strategy and armed forces as the government warned of “growing” Russian aggression and the changing nature of modern warfare. UK to publish major defence review to face ‘new era of threat’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer cautioned on Sunday that the UK was…
Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. I’ll admit that despite being a bona fide shopaholic, visiting shops in Tokyo was at the bottom of my to-do list when I was recently invited to join in on the inaugural trip of the new non-stop route…
An unusual convergence of the Dragon Boat Festival and Children’s Day in China over the weekend led to a surge in domestic tourism bookings to campsites, amusement parks and other attractions, according to travel platforms. Short-haul domestic travel bookings had grown 23 per cent year on year, according to travel platform Trip.com’s latest figures. The…
When Burberry was successful, it bottled the essence of Britishness. It is now a medium-sized player that has gone through successive changes of management, facing an increasingly volatile world while seeming uncertain of its identity. So still the essence of Britain. The company has announced huge job losses – up to 1,700 globally, or about…
How are fashion and beauty faring in 2025? If Circana’s presentation at the WWD Global Fashion & Beauty Summit is any indication, it’s a bit of a mixed bag — though beauty, Circana senior vice president Larissa Jensen’s specialty, is more resilient. “Our agenda is to cover high-level global beauty results,” Jensen said, with a focus…
Books about the Tiananmen Square crackdown have become increasingly scarce in Hong Kong’s independent bookstores, with sellers citing widespread self-censorship fuelled by legal uncertainties surrounding the sale of politically sensitive titles under the national security laws. The disappearance of the books and the loss of the annual June 4 candlelight vigil in Victoria Park, combined…
Georgia baseball just had one of their best regular seasons in program history. The Bulldogs didn’t win the SEC regular season championship and they also lost their first game of the SEC Tournament, but that doesn’t take away from how hot this team was entering the NCAA Tournament. Georgia entered the NCAA Tournament with an…
A joint open letter by members of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), a worldwide network of more than 70 consumer protection authorities, recently called on the fashion retail sector and textile industry to review their commercial practices to ensure their environmental claims comply with consumer law. The letter urges retailers to avoid…
By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hedge funds revealed their top investment ideas, ranging from Chinese self-driving taxis, an Indian drug retailer, to a Korean nuclear plant builder, at the annual Sohn investment conference in Hong Kong. This year’s picks are geographically more diverse compared … Source link