Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with this week’s roll call votes, the House also passed, by voice vote, a bill (H.R. 189), to eliminate the general office space leasing authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission. HOUSE Amtrak executive pay The House has passed the…
Australia said on Friday it has agreed to help boost Solomon Islands’ police force with a finance and training package for the Pacific nation, which has fostered close ties with China. The deal includes A$190 million (US$118 million) in financing over four years, training and infrastructure including a police training centre in the Solomons’ capital…
Hong Kong community care teams that received mental health training are better at identifying hidden cases and communicating with those who are suffering, a study has found, while a lawmaker has urged authorities to expand the coverage of the course. Bill Tang Ka-piu of the Federation of Trade Unions said on Sunday the care teams…
China’s judges and prosecutors must pay more attention to solving conflicts and ensuring fairness rather than just closing cases, a senior judicial official said in a rare commentary, as authorities reflect on a string of mass killings in recent weeks. Wang Chengguo, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang province, wrote in…
The Biden and Trump administrations are turning their attention to the Israel-Hamas War in hopes of bringing a swift resolution to the violence.On Monday, President-elect Trump demanded the release of Israeli hostages, threatening that if it doesn’t happen before his inauguration on Jan. 20, there would be “ALL HELL TO PAY.””It’s all talk, and no…
A Tucson man was fatally shot Friday night while traveling through a volatile part of northwest Sonora, on the same highway where two Arizona women were killed in an August shooting and where a U.S. resident was killed in December. The U.S. State Department identified the man who was shot as Nicholas Douglas Quets, a…
A Hong Kong charity that has designed courses for children and young people with special education needs (SEN) and workshops for their families to strengthen their mental, physical and social health will be able to serve more of those in need, thanks to extra support from an annual fundraising drive. Starting next year, the charity,…
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The 2019 social unrest in Hong Kong may have soured relations between the public and police, but for Jeff Wong Lok-ching, it prompted him to join the force despite his family expressing concerns and friends cutting ties. “I did not give up the idea of joining the police force because I believe that through my…
A 46-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of throwing red paint at the headquarters of the Hong Kong government. Security personnel discovered the paint splashed near a flower bed at an entrance of the headquarters close to Harcourt Road on Wednesday morning. Broken glass was also found at the scene. Security footage showed that…