Hong Kong agencies warn of lingering Jakarta flight delays after volcano eruption
Some Hong Kong employment and travel companies have warned that air traffic in Jakarta could continue to face disruption
s even after the Indonesian capital’s international airport reopened following a volcanic eruption that spewed ash into the sky, as airlines work through a backlog. GLC (Manado) Employment Service fou...
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Some Hong Kong employment and travel companies have warned that air traffic in Jakarta could continue to face disruption
s even after the Indonesian capital’s international airport reopened following a volcanic eruption that spewed ash into the sky, as airlines work through a backlog. GLC (Manado) Employment Service fou...
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Trump bans some Canada goods, puts 50% tariffs on others
The US is banning dairy products, most alcoholic drinks and motorcycles from Canada, the White House said on Tuesday, as
the trade war between the two neighbours and long-time allies escalates. The ban will take effect in three weeks and comes after Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on US$20 billion in US imports earl...
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The US is banning dairy products, most alcoholic drinks and motorcycles from Canada, the White House said on Tuesday, as
the trade war between the two neighbours and long-time allies escalates. The ban will take effect in three weeks and comes after Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on US$20 billion in US imports earl...
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No foreign soldiers: Japan shuts down proposal to fix military shortfall
By 2045, Japan’s Self-Defence Forces (SDF) could shrink to 130,000 personnel – nearly half today’s strength. But Tokyo h
as already ruled out one think tank’s controversial fix: recruiting foreign nationals. The proposal formed part of a report written by a panel of senior former defence bureaucrats and military chiefs,...
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By 2045, Japan’s Self-Defence Forces (SDF) could shrink to 130,000 personnel – nearly half today’s strength. But Tokyo h
as already ruled out one think tank’s controversial fix: recruiting foreign nationals. The proposal formed part of a report written by a panel of senior former defence bureaucrats and military chiefs,...
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Trump transport chief blasts Ford’s business deals with Chinese firms
The Trump administration on Tuesday blasted Ford Motor’s business partnerships with Chinese companies, saying they posed
national security concerns. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a letter to Ford CEO Jim Farley sent on Tuesday said the carmaker’s dealings with Chinese battery maker CATL and Chinese carmake...
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The Trump administration on Tuesday blasted Ford Motor’s business partnerships with Chinese companies, saying they posed
national security concerns. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a letter to Ford CEO Jim Farley sent on Tuesday said the carmaker’s dealings with Chinese battery maker CATL and Chinese carmake...
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How Japan is digging in to deter – and withstand – a conflict over Taiwan
The risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring up security at home and abro
ad for a potentially prolonged fight. But there are economic, demographic and political constraints on how far its military transformation can go. In the second of a three-part series, Gabriel Domingu...
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The risk of a conflict over Taiwan is shaping Japanese defence planning, with Tokyo shoring up security at home and abro
ad for a potentially prolonged fight. But there are economic, demographic and political constraints on how far its military transformation can go. In the second of a three-part series, Gabriel Domingu...
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Albania protests against Trump-linked development turn violent after 100th day
Police in Albania blocked protesters from reaching parliament on Tuesday as the latest rally against a luxury developmen
t linked to US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, turned violent The march was staged as parliament resumed from a summer recess and after the demonstrations marked their 100th day on...
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Police in Albania blocked protesters from reaching parliament on Tuesday as the latest rally against a luxury developmen
t linked to US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, turned violent The march was staged as parliament resumed from a summer recess and after the demonstrations marked their 100th day on...
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US strikes Iranian tankers after more attempted missile attacks on Navy warship
The US on Tuesday struck multiple Iranian tankers in response to more attempted missile attacks on a Navy warship, accor
ding to a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations. Iranian state television also is reporting that US forces attacked Iranian oil tankers near the sou...
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The US on Tuesday struck multiple Iranian tankers in response to more attempted missile attacks on a Navy warship, accor
ding to a US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations. Iranian state television also is reporting that US forces attacked Iranian oil tankers near the sou...
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Nicaragua hands gold concession to sister firm of US-sanctioned Chinese miner
Nicaragua has granted a Chinese-owned company linked to one sanctioned by Washington the right to prospect and dig for g
old across 262 sq km (101 sq miles) of rainforest, about a quarter the size of Hong Kong. The 25-year concession over the block, named Jade, went to Linze Excelente Mineria, a company that appeared in...
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Nicaragua has granted a Chinese-owned company linked to one sanctioned by Washington the right to prospect and dig for g
old across 262 sq km (101 sq miles) of rainforest, about a quarter the size of Hong Kong. The 25-year concession over the block, named Jade, went to Linze Excelente Mineria, a company that appeared in...
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Trump’s Venezuela oil deal: why China can wait and watch
When US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that the United States had secured majority control over some 65 b
illion barrels of Venezuelan oil through a private company, the North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), he called it “the biggest oil deal in history”. The White House fact sheet provided the det...
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When US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that the United States had secured majority control over some 65 b
illion barrels of Venezuelan oil through a private company, the North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), he called it “the biggest oil deal in history”. The White House fact sheet provided the det...
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US accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘malicious’ copying of AI technology
The US government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology from A
merican AI firms, potentially complicating relations ahead of a planned meeting between leaders of the world’s two biggest economies later this month. The Chinese companies copied US AI labs’ intelle...
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The US government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology from A
merican AI firms, potentially complicating relations ahead of a planned meeting between leaders of the world’s two biggest economies later this month. The Chinese companies copied US AI labs’ intelle...
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White House pulls ‘Build the Wall’ game after warning from Tetris
The White House on Tuesday pulled a Tetris-style game called Build the Wall from its new online arcade, four days after
a warning by the classic game maker that it takes copyright infringement seriously. The block-stacking game, subtitled “Zombie Border Siege”, told players to “protect the border from the coming horde”...
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The White House on Tuesday pulled a Tetris-style game called Build the Wall from its new online arcade, four days after
a warning by the classic game maker that it takes copyright infringement seriously. The block-stacking game, subtitled “Zombie Border Siege”, told players to “protect the border from the coming horde”...
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US Secretary of State Rubio arrives in Colombia to clarify China ties, sign minerals deal
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Colombia on Tuesday to meet President Abelardo de la Espriella,
sign agreements on critical minerals and civil nuclear cooperation and take up the country’s ties to China, in the first visit by a cabinet-level US official since the Colombian leader took office a m...
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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Colombia on Tuesday to meet President Abelardo de la Espriella,
sign agreements on critical minerals and civil nuclear cooperation and take up the country’s ties to China, in the first visit by a cabinet-level US official since the Colombian leader took office a m...
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Putin and Trump discuss Ukraine in ‘extremely frank’ call
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday discussed the Ukraine conflict in an “extrem
ely frank” and constructive hour-long phone call, the Kremlin said. It came after US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend in an attempt to kick-start lo...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday discussed the Ukraine conflict in an “extrem
ely frank” and constructive hour-long phone call, the Kremlin said. It came after US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv over the weekend in an attempt to kick-start lo...
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Huawei goes on trial in US for racketeering after nearly decade of litigation
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies went on trial on Tuesday in Brooklyn, New York, on criminal charges after eight y
ears of legal wrangling with the US government. The Shenzhen-based company has pleaded not guilty to all 14 counts, including bank fraud, wire fraud, trade secret theft, and racketeering, with the all...
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Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies went on trial on Tuesday in Brooklyn, New York, on criminal charges after eight y
ears of legal wrangling with the US government. The Shenzhen-based company has pleaded not guilty to all 14 counts, including bank fraud, wire fraud, trade secret theft, and racketeering, with the all...
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Singapore man Malone Lam pleads guilty after massive US bitcoin heist and spending spree
A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitc
oin from a Washington resident – one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in US history – and then embarking on a wild spending spree with the laundered proceeds. Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout w...
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A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitc
oin from a Washington resident – one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in US history – and then embarking on a wild spending spree with the laundered proceeds. Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout w...
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New York leaders ‘lied’ about toxic air after 9/11, Mayor Zohran Mamdani says
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did no
t disclose all it knew about air toxicity after September 11. The release comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks in 2001 that killed 2,977 people, in the US, mostly in the collapse of the ...
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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday the release of tens of thousands of documents showing the city did no
t disclose all it knew about air toxicity after September 11. The release comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks in 2001 that killed 2,977 people, in the US, mostly in the collapse of the ...
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US targets Iran’s airlines with sweeping new sanctions
The US on Tuesday issued 36 fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting Iran’s aviation sector and other companies as part o
f a broad push to escalate economic pressure on Tehran as the war in the Middle East entered a seventh month. The US Treasury Department said the action was aimed at grounding Iran’s Mahan Air, alread...
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The US on Tuesday issued 36 fresh Iran-related sanctions targeting Iran’s aviation sector and other companies as part o
f a broad push to escalate economic pressure on Tehran as the war in the Middle East entered a seventh month. The US Treasury Department said the action was aimed at grounding Iran’s Mahan Air, alread...
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Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, dies aged 89
Tung Chee-hwa, who served as Hong Kong’s first chief executive and oversaw the 1997 return of the city to Chinese rule,
has died. The former vice-chairman of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), died on Tuesday at the age of 89, according to a statement fr...
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Tung Chee-hwa, who served as Hong Kong’s first chief executive and oversaw the 1997 return of the city to Chinese rule,
has died. The former vice-chairman of China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), died on Tuesday at the age of 89, according to a statement fr...
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Singapore ‘open’ to using chemical castration for sex offenders if proven effective
Singapore remains open to considering chemical castration as a measure to tackle sex crimes if there is clear evidence t
hat it is effective in reducing crime, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has said. However, the evidence so far was inconclusive, he said in a written parliamentary reply on Tuesday. “We remain open t...
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Singapore remains open to considering chemical castration as a measure to tackle sex crimes if there is clear evidence t
hat it is effective in reducing crime, Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has said. However, the evidence so far was inconclusive, he said in a written parliamentary reply on Tuesday. “We remain open t...
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Endangered Sumatran tigers born in Greece as zoos build safety net
The world’s most endangered tigers have started a family in Greece, offering hope for a predator rapidly vanishing from
the wild. Three two-month-old Sumatran tiger cubs received identification microchips and their first vaccinations on Tuesday at a zoo near Athens, as part of a global effort to build a backup populati...
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The world’s most endangered tigers have started a family in Greece, offering hope for a predator rapidly vanishing from
the wild. Three two-month-old Sumatran tiger cubs received identification microchips and their first vaccinations on Tuesday at a zoo near Athens, as part of a global effort to build a backup populati...
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