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Jimmy Lai trial: key points from media mogul’s testimony on first day
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:01:48 GMT
Detained pro-democracy activist spoke for first time about charges against him under Hong Kong national security law
Jimmy Lai, the detained pro-democracy activist and media mogul who is the target of Hong Kong’s most high-profile national security case, took the stand in court on Wednesday. For the first time since he was detained in December 2020, Lai spoke publicly about the charges against him, for which he faces spending the rest of his life behind bars.
Four years after his arrest, the 77-year-old seemed older and not as strong as he used to be. His first words – swearing an oath on the Bible – were delivered hoarsely.
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Match ID: 0 Score: 60.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china, 20.00 taiwan
Nikki Haley criticizes Trump cabinet picks Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:49:45 GMT
Republican calls Trump’s choice of national intelligence director ‘a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer’
Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador and Republican presidential hopeful, criticized two of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, calling his choice for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, “a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer” and Robert F Kennedy Jr, tapped for health secretary, a “liberal Democrat” with no background in relevant policy.
“So now she’s defended Russia, she’s defended Syria, she’s defended Iran, and she’s defended China,” Haley said of Gabbard on her SiriusXM radio show on Wednesday. “No, she has not denounced any of these views. None of them. She hasn’t taken one of them back.
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Match ID: 1 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china
F1 driver Yuki Tsunoda interrogated in pyjamas by US border officials
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:12:05 GMT
- Japanese driver was on way to Las Vegas Grand Prix
- Officials let 24-year-old go after lengthy questioning
Japanese Formula One driver Yuki Tsunoda said he was interrogated in his pyjamas for several hours by United States border control officials before being let into the country for this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The RB driver told reporters on Wednesday he had no issues on his two previous visits to the US this year for races in Austin and Miami.
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Match ID: 2 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 japan
China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.
Match ID: 3 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
Match ID: 4 Score: 40.00 source: www.economist.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 40.00 china
Paws up! Police find shoe thief at a kindergarten is actually a weasel.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:42:51 +0000
Police in southwest Japan installed cameras after nearly two dozen children’s shoes went missing from Gosho Kodomo-en kindergarten in Fukuoka. The culprit? A weasel.
Match ID: 5 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Transgender woman wins record payout in China after electroshock treatment
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:55:49 GMT
Case marks first time a trans person has successfully challenged use of such conversion practices in country
A transgender woman in China has won a record amount of compensation from a hospital that subjected her to several sessions of electroshock conversion practices without her consent.
Changli county people’s court in Qinhuangdao, a city in Hebei, approved a 60,000 yuan (£6,552) award to Ling’er, a 28-year-old performance artist who was recorded male at birth but identifies as a woman. LGBTQ+ activists described the award, approved on 31 October, as a victory for trans rights in China.
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Match ID: 6 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza”
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:02:51 +0000
Sanders’s resolutions to block arms sales to Israel gained momentum, but ran headlong into White House opposition.
The post Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 7 Score: 40.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
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‘Resurgence’ in China aid to Pacific amid tussle with US for influence
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:27:22 GMT
Thinktank’s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a ‘more competitive, politically targeted model’ of engagement in the region
China has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after charting a “resurgence” in Beijing-backed aid and infrastructure funding.
Over the past decade, China has lavished billions of dollars on Pacific island nations, part of ongoing efforts to build influence in competition with the US and its allies.
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Match ID: 8 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Congressional committee advises revoking China’s trade status
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:24:22 +0000
Bipartisan group recommends end to Beijing’s decades-long permanent normal trade status and calls for “Manhattan Project-type” American AI fund.
Match ID: 9 Score: 40.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 40.00 china
Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
Match ID: 10 Score: 40.00 source: www.economist.com age: 2 days
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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.
The post Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 11 Score: 39.29 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 28.57 china, 10.71 vietnam
Bangladesh to seek extradition of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina from India
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:46:13 GMT
Interim leader Muhammad Yunus confirms plans to put former PM on trial accused of crimes against humanity
Bangladesh will seek the extradition of the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to face trial on charges including crimes against humanity, the country’s interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, has said in a speech.
Hasina, whose autocratic regime governed Bangladesh for 15 years, was toppled in a student-led revolution in August. Since then she has been living in exile in India after fleeing the country in a helicopter as thousands of protesters overran the presidential palace.
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Match ID: 12 Score: 38.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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How Clive of India’s 1767 sofa ended up in a British south Asian living room
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:37:26 GMT
Seven artists launch project to ‘decolonise’ national museums and arts organisations in Wales
The plush red and gold French-style sofa was made for Clive of India in 1767 for his London home and, for the past 60 years, has formed part of a museum collection in Cardiff, devoid of any explanation of the role its owner played in south Asia.
Now, though, it finds itself in a very different space – slap bang in the middle of a cosy recreation of a British south Asian living room produced by the artist Nasia Sarwar-Skuse as part of a project to “decolonise” Wales’s national museums and arts organisations.
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Match ID: 13 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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U.S. case against Adani targets a close ally of Indian prime minister
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:32:29 +0000
Adani is seen as an arm of Indian domestic and foreign policy — and a proxy for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Match ID: 14 Score: 35.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india
Who is Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire charged in the US over bribery plot?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:25:29 GMT
Adani, widely regarded as one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in India, has close ties to Modi’s government
• Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery
Gautam Adani is widely regarded as one of the most powerful men in India, as well as one of the wealthiest. Born in the western state of Gujarat, one of eight children whose father was a low level textile trader, Adani is seen as a self-made industrialist. At its peak in 2022, Adani’s personal net worth touched $127bn (£100bn).
His first venture into business was trading in the diamond industry in Mumbai, where he made hist first million rupees. In the 1980s, he returned to Gujarat to help with his brother’s plastic business and gradually widened to importing metals, agricultural materials and textiles.
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Match ID: 15 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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US and India lead G20 on climate action, report says
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:00:01 GMT
Exclusive: world’s biggest emitters making most progress in introducing policies, study shows, but emissions still set to rise by 2.7C
The United States and India have made the greatest progress among the world’s top 20 economies in implementing climate policies since the 2016 Paris Agreement, a study commissioned by the Guardian has found.
The data underscores the importance of political leadership and international coordination, both of which are coming under intense pressure ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump, who has threatened to pull the US out of the United Nations climate treaty.
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Match ID: 16 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:57:04 GMT
Indian chair of Adani Group, worth about $85bn, accused of agreeing to pay bribes to obtain solar energy contracts
Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar scheme to pay $250m in bribes and conceal it from US investors.
Prosecutors charged the chair of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group and two other executives of a renewable energy company with securities fraud and conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud.
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Match ID: 17 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Billionaire Gautam Adani indicted in New York in alleged bribery scheme
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:43:14 +0000
Indian energy mogul Gautam Adani, an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was indicted in New York on bribery charges involving solar energy supply contracts.
Match ID: 18 Score: 35.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Melbourne teen Bianca Jones dies in hospital after methanol poisoning in Laos
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:26:42 GMT
A New Zealand citizen is also ill, while a US citizen has died following a suspected mass poisoning event in the town of Vang Vieng
Melbourne teen Bianca Jones has died from methanol poisoning in a Thai hospital, a week after the Melbourne teen and her best friend fell ill while travelling in neighbouring Laos.
Anthony Albanese confirmed the 19-year-old’s death on Thursday, after her parents travelled to Thailand to be with her.
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Match ID: 19 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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World’s conflict zones increased by two-thirds in past three years, report reveals
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:01:39 GMT
Wars have spread and intensified, with far-reaching impacts on global economic growth and food security, according to latest Conflict Intensity Index
The proportion of the world engulfed by conflict has grown 65% – equivalent to nearly double the size of India – over the past three years, according to a new report.
Ukraine, Myanmar, the Middle East and a “conflict corridor” around Africa’s Sahel region have seen wars and unrest spread and intensify since 2021, according to the latest Conflict Intensity Index (CII), published by risk analysts Verisk Maplecroft.
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Match ID: 20 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 india
Who is Gautam Adani? Indian billionaire hit with fraud charges in U.S.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:51:02 +0000
Adani, an Indian business magnate and one of the richest men in Asia, faces new allegations of fraud to secure solar energy supply contracts.
Match ID: 21 Score: 35.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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The Complex Politics of Tribal Enrollment
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?
Match ID: 22 Score: 35.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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The key moment came 38 minutes after Starship roared off the launch pad
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:57:45 +0000
SpaceX wasn't able to catch the Super Heavy booster, but Starship is on the cusp of orbital flight.
Match ID: 23 Score: 35.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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Family of woman found dead in car in London accuses police of failing to protect her
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:23:45 GMT
Exclusive: Sister says Harshita Brella reported abuse but ‘police processes made her feel more scared and alone’
The family of a woman found dead in a car boot in east London have accused police of not doing enough to protect her, saying she had filed a complaint alleging domestic abuse by her husband weeks before.
The body of Harshita Brella, a 24-year-old Indian citizen who was living in Northamptonshire, was discovered last Thursday in a car in Ilford. Police have named her husband, Pankaj Lamba, as the main suspect for the killing. Officers believe he has fled the country.
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Match ID: 24 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
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‘Cow Vigilantes’ in India Are Attacking Muslims and Posting It on Instagram
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Instagram has become a key avenue for Hindu nationalist “cow vigilantes” to share their violent exploits with a wider audience, and even raise money.
Match ID: 26 Score: 35.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Keir Starmer to restart UK-India talks after previous negotiations stalled
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:00:19 GMT
Whisky and migration thwarted earlier deal but UK PM hopeful of reaching agreement with Narendra Modi
Keir Starmer is to restart the aborted UK-India trade talks in the new year after an agreement stalled amid disagreements over whisky tariffs and migration.
No progress has been made on the deal since early this year after the last round of talks concluded. As prime minister, Boris Johnson promised a swift deal, but Rishi Sunak was said to be deeply uneasy with some of the provisions that had been negotiated by his predecessor. Talks were put on hold in March while both countries prepared for general elections.
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Match ID: 27 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Pollution in Delhi hits record high, cloaking city in smog
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:49:20 GMT
Indian capital imposes emergency measures including closing schools and offices and barring heavy vehicles
Pollution levels in India’s capital, Delhi, have soared to their highest levels this year, forcing schools and offices to close and cloaking the city in thick brown smog.
In some parts of the city, a live air quality ranking by IQAir put pollution levels at more than 30 times the maximum level deemed healthy.
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Match ID: 28 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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Should India Speak a Single Language?
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
Match ID: 29 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 30.00 india
Thai woman sentenced to death for cyanide poisoning in first of 14 murder trials
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:20:09 GMT
Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is accused of swindling thousands from victims before killing them
A Thai woman alleged to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom’s history has been convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning a friend with cyanide, in the first of 14 murder trials.
Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, described as an online gambling addict, is accused of swindling thousands of dollars from her victims before killing them with the chemical.
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Match ID: 30 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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British lawyer is fifth person to die in suspected methanol poisoning in Laos
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:46:11 GMT
Two Danes, an American and an Australian have died after incident in town popular with backpackers
A British lawyer has been named as the fifth person to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos.
The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have said they are supporting the family of British lawyer Simone White, 28, from Orpington in Kent who has died in the incident.
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Match ID: 31 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 laos
Briton Simone White dies after suspected mass poisoning in Laos
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:40:22 GMT
The 28-year-old lawyer becomes the fifth person to die from suspected methanol poisoning.
Match ID: 32 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 laos
Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
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Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
Match ID: 33 Score: 15.00 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 28 days
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Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win.
The post Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 34 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 35 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 11.43 china
More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.
Match ID: 36 Score: 11.43 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 11.43 china
How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
Match ID: 37 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 85 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 5.00 india
Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
Thu, 23 May 2024 10:13:46 +0000
To avoid an economic shock, they are pursuing a strange mix of free trade and protectionism
Match ID: 38 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 182 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 5.00 india
These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:07:15 +0000
Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks.
Match ID: 39 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 10.00 india
NASA’s C-130 Aircraft En Route to India in Support of NISAR Mission
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:11:53 +0000
NASA’s globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in support of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The C-130 departed from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Tuesday, Oct. 15, to embark on the multi-leg, multi-day journey. The flight path will take the aircraft coast to coast […]
Match ID: 40 Score: 7.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 34 days
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The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.
Match ID: 41 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
Match ID: 42 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.71 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 41 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 42 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
Match ID: 45 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
Match ID: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 58 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 67 days
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
Match ID: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 84 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
Match ID: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 98 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
Match ID: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 107 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
Match ID: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 108 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 110 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 114 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 126 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 128 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
Match ID: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 161 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:14:09 +0000
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
Match ID: 59 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 163 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:08:43 +0000
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire
Match ID: 60 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 171 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:06:54 +0000
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
Match ID: 61 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 175 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
The property firm that could break China’s back
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:04:20 +0000
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
Match ID: 62 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 189 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 63 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 191 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
Match ID: 64 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 196 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
Match ID: 65 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 196 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
Match ID: 66 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 196 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Match ID: 67 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 206 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Match ID: 68 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 212 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
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China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 73 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 235 days
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
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Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
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China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:35:54 +0000
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:10:43 +0000
The government is not used to being bullied
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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The false promise of friendshoring
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:14:50 +0000
America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals
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As China’s markets suffer, what alternatives do investors have?
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:13:53 +0000
Optimism about the world’s second-largest stockmarket is a distant memory
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
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Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
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Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:05:08 +0000
A roaring economy is not enough to entice them
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Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
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How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
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How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
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How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
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Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
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Bad girls do it well: MIA’s 20 best songs – ranked!
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:00:50 GMT
Mathangi Arulpragasam has been mixing it up for more than 20 years, blending Bollywood and Suicide samples with funk, electro and hip-hop. We select her standout cuts
In contrast to her first attention-grabbing mixtape (2004’s Piracy Funds Terrorism), 2023’s Bells Collection slipped out virtually unnoticed: to say its lo-fi, Christian-themed contents divided fans is putting it mildly, but Solitude’s murky synth arpeggios and reflective mood were good enough to surmount some clumsy lyrics (“You used to have gurus, now it’s Google” etc).
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‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:12:12 GMT
From family life to fairground glamour, across Ireland and the UK, the photographer wanted to show a different side to a group whose way of life is dying out
‘Come in,” a woman yelled at Sam Wright from her caravan, “you’re gonna get soaked!” He was at the Appleby horse fair in Cumbria to photograph the UK’s Traveller community in June 2020, but wasn’t having much luck in the pouring rain. Over a cup of tea, Corrina Chapman asked if he would take her family’s portrait and then spent the next 10 minutes calling everyone. Parents, uncles, cousins and lots of kids trickled into the caravan until about 12 people were crammed inside. In the chaos, Wright, who had recently become a father, took one of his favourite images, of a man holding a baby; capturing a tender side to Travellers not often seen in the media.
The photographer, whose great-grandmother was of Traveller heritage, wanted to create “a new and more honest portrayal” of the community, who have been caricatured and criminalised for decades. Before photographing the series, Wright had heard the flippantly racist comments Travellers face, being warned that they might be hostile or steal his equipment. But that couldn’t have been further from the truth. They were “really warm, kind, passionate people”, he says. “It was super welcoming.”
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Why are we laughing at male ignorance about menstruation? Where are the LOLs?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:00:54 GMT
I’m done with viral videos of men who don’t know where a tampon goes. They need to grow up. Period
I often get annoyed while looking at the internet. It’s part of the deal. Usually it’s easy to scroll past irritating content and not lose time over it but sometimes this is more difficult – for example when you are experiencing premenstrual syndrome.
I say this because for the past few months I’ve noticed a few online trends that have something in common: periods and irritating me. The first is viral videos of men hooked up to a machine that simulates period pain, applied by what seems to be a merry travelling group of educators who get to make men feel bad as their job (where do I sign up?). Sometimes their partners who have painful periods or endometriosis are also hooked up – the end result is seeing a man groaning in pain and unable to stand while a woman chuckles at how tolerable it is compared with her reality.
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Perfect waves at the touch of a button: catching a break at Scotland’s first inland surf resort
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:00:47 GMT
Lost Shore Surf Resort near Edinburgh is Europe’s largest wave pool and there are few better places to learn this exhilarating sport
The sun splashes off the lagoon and I shield my eyes to see the wave rushing up behind me. I’m lying on my big foam surfboard in perfect position as it arrives. “Three big paddle strokes to catch the wave,” is what my instructor, Owen, had told me. I do just that, pop up and voilà: I’m surfing, arms out, gliding, grinning, sailing, slipping, falling flat on my face, hard into the water.
I stand back up, unable to suppress a seismic smile and shake myself off like a wet dog. Owen gives me a high five and a few tips on my dodgy footwork, and I paddle back out to try again.
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Melbourne teen Bianca Jones dies in hospital after methanol poisoning in Laos
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:26:42 GMT
A New Zealand citizen is also ill, while a US citizen has died following a suspected mass poisoning event in the town of Vang Vieng
Melbourne teen Bianca Jones has died from methanol poisoning in a Thai hospital, a week after the Melbourne teen and her best friend fell ill while travelling in neighbouring Laos.
Anthony Albanese confirmed the 19-year-old’s death on Thursday, after her parents travelled to Thailand to be with her.
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STS-129 Crew Aboard the Space Station
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:07:39 +0000
The STS-129 crew members pose for a portrait following a joint news conference with the Expedition 21 crew members on Nov. 24, 2009. Astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert L. Satcher Jr., Randy Bresnik, Butch Wilmore, and Nicole Stott launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2009, aboard […]
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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
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5 Best Travel Mugs (2024), Tested and Reviewed
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:02:00 +0000
Goodbye, lukewarm beverages. These are the top insulated travel mugs we tested and love to keep our hot drinks toasty and our cold ones refreshing.
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San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Nine health care workers at UCSF report censorship or punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians — or simply wearing a pin.
The post San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.
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