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In a seismic shift for the global retail landscape, Temu, the budget shopping platform owned by PDD Holdings, has caught up with Amazon.com in cross-border market share globally. The platform, which launched in 2022, saw its share surge from less than 1 per cent then to 24 per cent last year, on par with American giant Amazon, according to a survey published by International Post Corporation (IPC), an association of 26 national postal services in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America. Amazon’s...

Police are investigating an alleged assault at Ala Moana Beach Park that sent a 42-year-old man to the hospital Sunday morning with a stab wound.

Are your loved ones in luck this year? See our predictions for all the zodiac signs in the Year of the Horse. In my years of interviewing fortune-tellers and feng shui masters for Lunar New Year content, the term “benefactor” – 貴人 or guiren in Chinese – comes up time and again. While I feel that is the best translation for what literally means a “precious” or “noble” person, it seems there is a lack of appreciation for how profound the concept is in Chinese culture. The character 貴 or gui in...

China and the European Union have reached a trade compromise over Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). Whether that will translate into broader bargaining over other contentious industrial sectors, such as rare earths and semiconductors, remains to be seen. But after years of dispute, the rare agreement over such a significant industry for China may help to ease tensions and normalise trade. China and the EU are two of the world’s largest trading partners with many common economic and trade...