On March 13, 1996, an ostracized former Boy Scout leader around whom rumors of pedophilia had swirled for years, walked into the gym of Dunblane Primary School and fired at children aged five and six gathered at a gym class.
The White House played down what appeared to be a departure from longstanding US policy after president Joe Biden said today the US would militarily intervene in case of an attack on Taiwan by China.
China has some of the youngest retirement ages in the world, which is becoming a major problem for a country that is steadily aging.
A China Eastern Airlines plane flying from southwestern Kunming to the southern metropolis of Guangzhou crashed today with 123 passengers and nine crew on board, Chinese state media reported.
In February 2020, Stephen Yiadom was about to board a plane from Accra, Ghana back to China, where he was studying management and engineering, when he heard an announcement that his flight was canceled. Two years later, he’s still waiting to hear from Chinese officials and his university when he can return.
Hong Kong is relaxing hiring rules for care workers willing to come to the city to help battle its covid crisis.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ vast fortune is partly based on quick, hassle-free delivery. But he faces shipping issues himself—his superyacht, under construction in the Netherlands, is apparently too tall to pass under a historic bridge in the port city of Rotterdam because of its trio of masts.
For nearly a quarter of a century, the University of Hong Kong was home to a slim sculpture, 26 ft tall. Located next to a university cafeteria, students ate their lunch at adjacent benches.
It’s been nearly a month since omicron’s detection caused alarm because of its large number of mutations. Now preliminary lab research suggests these mutations do appear to boost the variant’s ability to infect even fully vaccinated people, as well as those who have previously had covid.
Travel bans and other restrictions are already in place globally after the World Health Organization designated a strain of covid-19 first detected in Botswana a variant of concern on Friday (Nov. 26).
In the face of demands from activist shareholders, Toshiba last week announced it would split into three companies, one for infrastructure, one for electronics, and one to house the 40% share it still owns in its former memory chip unit.
When countries talk about their relations they often talk about the importance of fostering people-to-people ties. Sometimes that phrase can seem like fluff from the dictionary of diplomatic buzzwords. And sometimes, personal ties can be crucial to getting stuff done—like the surprise US-China pledge to cooperate more deeply on climate change announced at COP26 yesterday (Nov. 10).
It’s turning out to be an uncomfortable few days for US billionaire Marc Lasry.
On Monday (Sept. 20), after days of seeming relaxed about property developer Evergrande, Hong Kong and US markets woke up to the idea there might be global ramifications to China’s $300 billion debt time bomb.
Though Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times hinted this week that indebted real estate developer Evergrande isn’t “too big to fail,” most economists and ratings analysts are betting that China will step in and force a restructuring of its $300 billion in debts.
In 1949, Zhou Enlai, China’s premier and first foreign minister, was trying to create a diplomatic corps out of Communist guerrilla fighters—a task complicated by the fact that diplomacy in Chinese history was inextricably linked to humiliating deals with foreigners.
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There is chaos and violence at Kabul airport, with deaths reported as Afghans desperately try to leave the country in the wake of the Taliban’s rapid takeover. US troops are in position to facilitate the evacuation of American and other allied civilians and diplomatic staff, including some Afghans, with the military section of the airport secure for now. The UK has acknowledged that some Afghans who worked with Western forces will be left behind.
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China has a new man in Washington.
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After studying cash transfer programs conducted by its neighbors, Hong Kong is experimenting with putting money in people’s hands to help its struggling retailers.
Many governments across the world have had difficulty procuring vaccines. But perhaps none has had so difficult a time as Taiwan, thanks to its diplomatic limbo dating back to China’s civil war.
