Xi declares 2024 as a ‘friendship year’ for North Korea and plans planned activities.
Xi emphasizes the need for continuous consolidation.
This year also marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.…
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Open this photo in gallery: Workers install decorations ahead of the Christmas festival at a mall in Beijing on Dec. 14, 2023. A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the latest sign the world’s No.…
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Economy in doldrums despite sizeable aid
Cash-strapped Pakistan saw a year of defaults and aids as unchecked inflation continued to trouble the masses, prompting widespread immigration out of the country.
The year’s beginning saw dwindling foreign rese…

There were contrasting reactions when the US rating agency Moody’s downgraded China’s A1 credit rating outlook from stable to negative last month. Financial markets, focused on the economy, paid it barely any attention.…
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Taiwan’s president has urged Beijing to respect the outcome of this month’s elections, declaring that the self-governing island’s future must be determined by its people alone.
Speaking hours after President Xi Jinping of China said in a new year’s mes…

Scientists from Russia and China have allegedly achieved quantum communication encryption using secure keys transmitted by China's quantum satellite Mozi.
Quantum communication encryption uses the principles of quantum mechanics to establish secu…

John Pilger, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 84, was a journalist who never shirked from saying the unsayable. Across half a century, in newspapers and in his documentary films – many for ITV, but later also in the cinema – he became an ever st…

Justin Paget
2023 has been a devastating year for solar stocks. If not for the recent Santa Claus rally, most solar stocks would've been down more than 40%. The new momentum is caused by the expected rate cuts of the Federal Reserve in 2024.&#823…

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen expressed hopes on Monday for Taipei and Beijing to seek "long-term peaceful coexistence" and said future relations should be decided by Taiwan's "democratic procedures".
Taiwan is less tha…

Rather, it's Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific that is spurring the recovery of a slew of abandoned runways on the 40 square-mile (100 square-kilometer) speck of land that makes up Tinian, part of the US territory of the Northern M…

In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest — is being revived.…
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The seawall treaty
Following the success of Project 2025 , through which Republicans outlawed renewable energy, electric vehicles and the color green, President DeSantis began negotiating with Mexico and Canada to set sea wall levels for the upcoming y…

A divided Congress faces a slew of fights in the new year. Japan issues a major tsunami warning after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. And a Colorado mother suspected of killing her two young children was arrested in the U.K.…
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Putin's spooks have jailed a record number of people accused of high treason and espionage in 2023
TEEN 'TRAITOR' Paranoid Putin jails Russia’s youngest ‘SPY’ as anti-war schoolboy who was just 16 when he ‘leaked secrets’ is locked up…

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Elevator Pitch
Hongkong Land Holdings Limited (OTCPK:HKHGF) (H78:SP) stock is still rated as a Buy.
I previously reviewed Hongkong Land's interim financial results for the first half of 2021 in my August 5, 2021 write-up.…
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WASHINGTON — From confrontations over government funding and foreign aid to Republican threats to impeach President Joe Biden despite the lack of an impeachable offense, a divided Congress is entering the new year facing a slew of big fights.…
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Open this photo in gallery: The Ho King Commercial Centre, in Hong Kong's Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood, on Dec. 21.James Griffiths/The Globe and Mail
Situated in the middle of Hong Kong’s busy Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood, the Ho King Commercial Centre i…

A.P. Moller-Maersk (OTCPK:AMKBY) has halted Red Sea shipping for 48 hours to size up the current security situation in a vital waterway responsible for a sixth of world trade.
A U.S.-led…
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BRITISH DEFENCE SECRETARY Grant Shapps today said Britain is “willing to take direct action” against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who have repeatedly attacked vessels in the Red Sea.
London’s warning comes amid escalating tensions in the vital sh…

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his military should “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked, state media reported Monday, after he vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an un…

​​In less than 300 years, the Vikings raided and explored land in at least four continents, spreading out in every direction from Scandinavia to invade and trade with civilizations across Europe and beyond.…
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