The Hang Seng Index rose 0.6 per cent to 19,258.09 as of 10.04am local time. The Hang Seng Tech Index gained 0.5 per cent. On the mainland, the CSI 300 Index and the Shanghai Composite Index both added 0.6 per cent. Chinese search giant Baidu surged 3.7 per cent to HK$80.75 on media reports that…
RIO GRANDE VALLEY – Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump. The property, which Texas originally purchased last month, is located in rural Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley. Republican Dawn Buckingham, the Texas Land…
Hong Kong will explore striking a free-trade agreement with more countries in Latin America, the city’s leader has said, revealing a deal recently signed with Peru will take effect in about six months. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also began wrapping up his first official visit to South America as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec)…
Chinese cars are selling at record levels in Russia. Competition from European, Korean, and Japanese carmakers has vanished since Western sanctions were imposed on Russia. Chinese automakers face increasing tariffs in other regions. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app By clicking…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 1,000 mariachis gathered in Mexico City’s main plaza Sunday, strumming guitars and singing classics like “Cielito Lindo” to end a mariachi congress celebrating the musical form. The number of musicians apparently topped the previous record of 700 mariachis at an earlier gathering in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1.” According to his own statements, he’s got a lot to do on that first day in the White House. His list includes starting up the mass deportation of migrants, rolling back Biden administration policies on education, reshaping the…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the last six years, Mexico bragged about its oft-questioned “hugs, not bullets” strategy, in which its leaders avoided confrontations with drug cartels that were gradually taking control of large parts of the country. The thinking was that social programs, not shootouts, would gradually drain the pool of cartel gunmen. Now,…
The presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris comes at a time of rising geopolitical tensions on multiple fronts. In the 14th report of an in-depth series, we look at China’s rise in hi-tech manufacturing and the US’ efforts to contain it. After decades spent working around the clock to produce an almost unimaginable…
Israel and Gaza Patrick Kingsley is The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief. Israelis, if they could, would vote by a large margin for Trump — the polls show that very clearly. But whoever wins, the long-term impact will probably be limited. Israeli society, not to mention the government, is more opposed to Palestinian statehood and a…
During this year’s election season in Mexico, propagandists leveraged a new mass-broadcasting feature on WhatsApp, called “channels,” to impersonate reputable political news outlets and pump out misleading information. Thousands of miles away, Telegram users in Hungary leveraged the app’s forwarding bot against LGBTQ+ and pro-democracy civil society organizations, portraying them as “Western-controlled” ahead of European…