Hong Kong is expected to introduce short-term relief measures for the transport sector that has been heavily affected by oil price fluctuations under a task force set to be established to monitor and respond to the Middle East conflict and the global energy crisis, the South China Morning Post has learned. The news followed a…
A two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran is unlikely to significantly ease fuel prices in the near term without a complete end to the conflict, Hong Kong economists have warned, citing uncertainties in the volatile situation. Economist Simon Lee Siu-po of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Finance Institute said that uncertainties…
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is dispatching his Iran negotiating team, led by Vice President JD Vance, to Pakistan, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, adding that the first round of talks would take place on Saturday. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were…
BUDAPEST, April 8 (Reuters) – Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday said Tehran’s negotiators thought the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreed to on Tuesday included Lebanon, but the U.S. had in fact not agreed to that. “I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Communist China is reportedly providing military assistance to the embattled Iranian regime, according to a leading U.S. military think tank and other reporting. The Institute for the Study of War stated that China is providing military assistance to the Iranian regime’s missile program, basing its research on…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, just hours before President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to cease threatening the key waterway. Trump has given Iran until 8 p.m. ET to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or…
Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, after repeated efforts to water down the proposal in the hope that the two countries would abstain 17:04, 07 Apr 2026Updated 18:04, 07 Apr 2026 Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in July 2024(Image: POOL/AFP…
Scores of Chinese construction workers in Israel have allegedly chosen not to evacuate the country, with some saying they would rather face bombs than poverty and starvation. Since the start of the war, the Chinese Embassy in Israel has been organizing evacuations of Chinese citizens via the Taba Port in Egypt. There are an estimated…
PARIS, April 7 (Reuters) – French nationals Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are “free and on their way to France after three and a half years of detention in Iran”, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday in a post on X, adding that Oman had mediated their release. The couple had been held by Iran…
April 7 (Reuters) – Efforts to facilitate talks between the U.S. and Iran are still ongoing, two Pakistani sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday, as U.S. strikes on Iran intensified and President Donald Trump’s deadline to unleash “hell” neared. One of the sources, a senior security official, said Iran’s overnight strike…