(Bloomberg) — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead talks on trade and other pressure points Sunday in New York ahead of next week’s summit between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies. The negotiators will lay the groundwork for a high-profile meeting between President Donald Trump and…
Hong Kong is navigating a defining moment in its digital infrastructure development. The city’s data center market was valued at $3.62 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $5.81 billion by 2031, driven by massive digital infrastructure expansion. As one of Asia’s leading connectivity hubs, Hong Kong continues to invest in the data center…
A devastating flash flood along the Tibet-Nepal border that has killed over 1,300 people has brought fresh attention to the growing environmental and geological risks in the Himalayan region, with Chinese experts linking the disaster to rising temperatures, retreating glaciers and increasingly volatile weather patterns. Members of Nepal Army walk towards Betrawati town for a…
In Brixham’s fish market, burly men in yellow overalls haul around big white boxes. Each crate contains a different offering; some crab perhaps or hake. Yet one infamous species is absent. The number of octopuses off England’s south coast has ballooned in the past two years (see chart). Over 700 tonnes were landed in Brixham,…
Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse. The head of Nepal’s tourism board told CBS News Thursday that 65 U.S. nationals were among those missing in the wake…
BERLIN (AP) — The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022, according to the European climate agency Copernicus. Globally, so far this is the third-hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, climate statistics show. But 2026 still has time to catch up. Thanks to…
KARAK, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian durian orchard owner Stephen Chow’s workers spend hours in the fields in the dead of night, donning headlamps to collect freshly ripened fruit coveted by Chinese consumers. But the hard work may not be enough to keep Chow out of the red. Durian lovers prize the Malaysian premium varieties such…
KARAK, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian durian orchard owner Stephen Chow’s workers spend hours in the fields in the dead of night, donning headlamps to collect freshly ripened fruit coveted by Chinese consumers. But the hard work may not be enough to keep Chow out of the red. Durian lovers prize the Malaysian premium varieties such…
Hong Kong should prepare for stronger storms and a warmer, wetter winter this year as the current El Nino phenomenon is likely to intensify into a super event, a local green group and a leading meteorologist have said. Typhoons heading for Hong Kong this year were set to grow more powerful, as El Nino raised…
SAUMOS, France, July 23 (Reuters) – More than 10,000 people were evacuated overnight in southwestern France as a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2,000 hectares of land west of the city of Bordeaux, officials said on Thursday. Wildfires have burnt more land in Europe already this year than the annual average in the past two…