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US, UK, Australia, other countries issue travel warnings for India, Pakistan after Operation Sindoor – Full list here

Amid the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, several countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, has issued travel advisory for both the countries. The travel directive comes after India’s Operation Sindoor targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. The April 22 attack, carried out…

Community Rallies to Support 19-Year-Old Under ICE Detention | Local News

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A Dalton woman is working to raise funds to help a local 19-year-old girl currently under ICE detention. The GoFundMe created by Hannah Jones has raised $22,000 of its $30k goal. Jones says the money will be used to fund the immigration attorney and bond for Ximena Arias. She says the Dalton High School graduate…

Hong Kong ranks 37th overall for journalists’ safety in new global index

Cs news7 months ago02 mins

Hong Kong ranked 37th out of 73 places in safety for journalists according to a new global index, outperforming South Korea and Indonesia but falling below Singapore and other European counterparts. The Global Index on Journalists’ Safety, published on Thursday, also saw the city score better than the United States when it came to the…

Hong Kong ranks 37th overall for journalists’ safety in new global index

Cs news7 months ago02 mins

Hong Kong ranked 37th out of 73 places in safety for journalists according to a new global index, outperforming South Korea and Indonesia but falling below Singapore and other European counterparts. The Global Index on Journalists’ Safety, published on Thursday, also saw the city score better than the United States when it came to the…

Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions

Cs news7 months ago08 mins

The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts. It also unleashed something else — a cascade of billions of dollars of digital advertising that provided a windfall for Meta, Alphabet…

Temu Stops Shipping Products From China to U.S. Customers as Trump Closes Tariff Loophole

Cs news7 months ago03 mins

Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform, has stopped shipping products from China directly to customers in the United States, a spokesperson for the company said on Friday. Instead, all of its U.S. orders will be shipped from local warehouses in America. The change comes as the Trump administration closed a loophole that allowed products made in…

Top 10 Most Visited Countries in the World

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If your suitcase has been giving you sad eyes from the closet corner, 2025 might be the year to dust it off! As travellers around the globe scramble to make up for lost time, airports are buzzing like beehives, and famous landmarks are playing host to selfie sticks once again. The World Economic Outlook Report…

Tailoring a Better Fashion Industry

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While generating an expected $1.84 trillion in 2025 (1.6% of global GDP), the fashion industry remains almost entirely unregulated, relying on a linear model of take-make-waste that exploits the world’s finite natural resources and its labor force. The production of 100 billion garments damages the Earth in myriad ways. It pollutes clean air and clean…

Explainer | What Hongkongers should expect with official end of ‘de minimis’ exemption by US

Cs news7 months ago02 mins

Washington ended the “de minimis” exemption for mainland China and Hong Kong on Friday, which had allowed products valued at US$800 or below to be shipped to the United States duty-free. While there are indications Washington and Beijing are moving towards easing their tit-for-tat tariff war, businesses in Hong Kong and the mainland have already…

Hong Kong fugitive Anna Kwok’s father charged with handling her financial assets

Cs news7 months ago03 mins

Hong Kong national security police have charged the father of wanted activist Anna Kwok Fung-yee for allegedly handling the funds or financial assets of an absconder, the Post has learned. A police source said on Friday that national security officers also arrested the brother of the United States-based Kwok for the same offence during an…