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US envoy Witkoff to meet Putin in Moscow for pivotal peace talks Thursday
US envoy Steve Witkoff said he and Jared Kushner will travel to Russia on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the latest proposals for a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. “The Russians have invited us to come and that’s a significant statement from them,” Witkoff said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. “Jared and I will leave Thursday…
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With Trump on the rampage, does China have a strategic window?
The successful capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, earlier this month was not merely a tactical achievement – it was a template. Within weeks, an unmistakable pattern has emerged: an aircraft carrier group redirecting towards the Middle East as protests engulfed Iran, European Nato allies scrambling to deploy troops to Greenland in response to Washington’s annexation rhetoric, and domestically, a…
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Passenger numbers for Hong Kong’s Cathay go sky high with 27% increase
Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways and its budget arm carried more than 36 million passengers in 2025, up 27 per cent from the previous year, on the back of growth in tourist numbers. Cathay Group said on Wednesday that the number of passengers handled by its premium carrier grew by 26.5 per cent to 28.87 million last year, while the figure for HK Express rose by 29.7 per cent to 7.91 million. The company said the…
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Hong Kong to build elite fencing, sports venues in Northern Metropolis
Hong Kong has allocated land within its Northern Metropolis to build venues for elite fencing, other sports and recreation, with observers saying the initiative must balance top-level athlete training with convenient access for residents. In a written reply to lawmaker Kenneth Fok Kai-kong on Wednesday, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui confirmed that the government had earmarked…
Chinese goods pour into Africa, widening trade gap to record US$102 billion amid US pressure
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Chinese goods pour into Africa, widening trade gap to record US$102 billion amid US pressure
China ramped up its exports to Africa last year, widening its trade surplus with the continent by 64.5 per cent to a record US$102 billion, according to Chinese customs figures. The jump in the trade gap – up from US$62 billion the previous year – was driven by a 25.8 per cent surge in Chinese exports to the continent to US$225 billion, far outpacing the 5.4 per cent growth in African shipments to China to US$123 billion, according to the latest data from China’s General Administration of...
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Luxury sportswear is having a moment as niche brands redefine workout fashion
Sometimes, the seeds for fashion’s most compelling shifts are sown far away from runways and high-end ateliers. For Johanna Parv, the London-based independent designer whose namesake brand merges the worlds of cycling and luxury fashion, the impulse built as she traversed the city on two wheels, seeing the way people had to awkwardly manipulate their outfit to avoid, say, getting a suit trouser or skirt hem caught…
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Hong Kong short-track speed skaters eager to race against world’s best at Winter Olympics
Hong Kong speed skater Darren Kwok Tsz-fung said he was excited to finally race against the world’s elite when he competes at the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina next month. Kwok, who served as a reserve at the 2022 Beijing Games four years ago, is one of two short-track speed skaters from the city to be selected for the Games in Italy. This will be the sixth time the city will compete at the highest level of…
Why Asia’s historic Silk Road should have been called the ‘Horse Road’
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Why Asia’s historic Silk Road should have been called the ‘Horse Road’
Are your loved ones in luck this year? See our predictions for all the zodiac signs in the Year of the Horse. For centuries, the most important luxury good exchanged on the Silk Road was not silk, spices or ceramics, but made of flesh, bone and thunder: horses. History’s most famous trade network should really have been called the “Horse Road”, argues David Chaffetz, an independent researcher and member of the London-based Royal Society for Asian Affairs. Contrary to common belief, he says, the...
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Indonesia police arrest 9 in Medan baby trafficking case linked to social media
Indonesian police have dismantled an alleged baby trafficking ring that used social media to sell newborns in Medan after neighbours reported suspicious activity at a rented house. Medan police chief Jean Calvijn Simanjuntak said nine people had been arrested and three others were being sought, according to a report by The Jakarta Post on Tuesday. The suspects were believed to have sold at least two babies for…
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How Asia’s economies could benefit from Trump’s global power plays
Asia’s economies may unintentionally benefit from the United States’ confrontational foreign policy across several continents, even as analysts warn of near-term volatile commodity prices. President Donald Trump has said the US wants to seize control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, amid tensions between Washington and the European Union over his intention. It comes after the US captured Venezuela’s…
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World in midst of biggest infrastructure buildout as AI shapes future: Jensen Huang
The world is witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history, with the foundation for an artificial intelligence system evolving quickly, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “We are now a few billion dollars into it,” he said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, adding that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Huang said that the AI industry was a “five-layered cake”, with…
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La France demande "un exercice de l'Otan" au Groenland et se dit "prête à y contribuer"
Donald Trump multiplie les menaces concernant le territoire autonome et défie les Européens.