Hong Kong ranked fourth in a university study on air transit connectivity at 16 aviation hubs across the Asia-Pacific in 2023. Researchers from the National Taiwan Ocean University’s transport science department also said Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou experienced declines in connectivity following the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper was published in the Asian Journal of Shipping…
Nike is running out of time to prove its China playbook works. The U.S. sportswear giant’s sixth straight quarterly sales decline in the country – including a 20% drop in footwear – underscores how a market once seen as a growth engine has become its biggest pressure point. CEO Elliott Hill admitted on Thursday’s post-earnings…
Both Afghans as well as general asylum seekers were left reeling over the weekend after the Trump administration announced further measures to severely restrict immigration in response to the shooting on Wednesday of two National Guard troops in Washington D.C. by a gunman officials identified as a 29-year-old man from Afghanistan. West Virginia National Guard…
Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, in conversation with Srijana Mitra Das (ET Evoke), outlines the path to global sustainability and its drivers: Q. COP30 concluded with a weaker note on fossil fuel phase-out than expected — what does this mean for the global sustainability drive? A. The upside here…
Bill Gates’s suggestion for a pivot away from emissions reduction and toward lessening human misery makes a kind of sense; it’s easier to get an emotional boost from helping children with malaria than from reducing CO2 emissions by a fraction of a percent (“Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from curbing emissions…
Could China’s new K visa reshape the global competition for top talent? Beijing certainly aims to do just that. Officially rolled out this month, the visa is aimed at young foreign professionals in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. It targets graduates and professionals with at least a bachelor’s degree in STEM from…
For years, many democracy experts have warned that U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing the country toward authoritarianism. During his first term, they raised alarm bells as Trump repeatedly tested democratic guardrails with unprecedented and, at times, incendiary actions—particularly his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election. When Trump was reelected last year,…
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we have some exciting personnel news to start with: Rachel Oswald has joined our news team! Rachel comes to FP from CQ Roll Call, where she spent more than a decade covering foreign policy on Capitol Hill, and we’re already geeking out with her on all things…
The Hamilton County Board of Commissioners are making plans for phase four of maintenance and facility improvements for Hamilton County Schools. At Wednesday’s meeting, commissioners discussed a resolution that would set aside $13.5 million for improvements. That allocation includes repairs at the Chattanooga School for Arts and Science and to bring a turf field to…
Though REX and Osprey did not launch the dogecoin ETF under the new ruleset, instead taking an alternative route involving separate legal provisions to ensure it won the race to market, analysts expect the SEC’s new listing standards to tee up a proliferation of crypto ETFs in the US. Under the ruleset, any crypto coin…