Hong Kong’s Airport Authority is in talks with over 20 international airlines, including those from Europe and the United States, to launch new routes to the city as it ups its game to woo foreign carriers with incentives. Chapman Fong Shui-man, the authority’s director for hub development, said on Thursday they had arranged to meet…
In Q2, billionaire investor Bill Gates executed major stock trades worth over $4 billion (£2.9 billion) in two companies. According to the latest filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Bill Gates purchased 6.95 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class B (NYSE: BKR.B) shares for the quarter ended 30th June, increasing his stake in…
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Famous investor and the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio has expressed concerns that the United States and the United Kingdom could be heading into “very, very dark times” in terms of their financial and geopolitical situations. On the “Diary of a CEO” podcast, Dalio…
Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupted production of Apple’s iPhones in Shenzhen and crucial pre-holiday shipments by cross-border e-commerce merchants, as the year’s strongest storm barrelled towards southern China with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. The world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, on Tuesday suspended assembly work at its Shenzhen unit – the innovative Product…
China and the US are not “rivals” or “enemies” but rather “partners”, top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told a rare visiting bipartisan group of four American lawmakers. He also called on Washington to treasure the current “stabilising trend” in bilateral relations while upholding its “political commitments” to Beijing regarding Taiwan during the meeting on Tuesday…
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The US unemployment rate has ticked up in recent months to its highest level since 2021. Meanwhile, job seekers say it’s taking them longer to find work as employers pull back on hiring. In August, the economy created 22,000 jobs, a decline from the revised previous month’s 79,000, according to data from the US Labor…
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] To provide more children and young people with opportunities to engage with basketball, The Hong Kong Jockey Club has committed HK$70.75 million through its Charities Trust to support a three-year Jockey Club Believe & Bounce Basketball Programme. This initiative, to be jointly implemented…
NEW DELHI: India and China should jointly oppose hegemony and “tariff and trade wars” while defending the interests of the Global South, Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong said on Tuesday, against the backdrop of the global impact of the US administration’s trade and tariff policies. Xu made the remarks while addressing an event hosted by the…
Last month, I joined a US think tank delegation to China, participating in a round table at a top university in Beijing. A remark by a leading professor of diplomacy struck me: “If China and the US can’t cooperate on health issues, they can’t cooperate on others.” His words underscore the dire state of bilateral…