Good day. Here are the stories for The Manila Times for Sunday, January 7, 2024.
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Loy Sing, which opened in 1889, is North America’s oldest continously operated Chinese business
When the owners of North America’s ­oldest continuously operated Chinese business decided to put it on the market, they wanted to keep the information ­low-…

Taiwan’s defence ministry accused China on Saturday of threatening aviation safety and waging psychological warfare on the island nation’s people with a recent spate of balloons spotted near or over the island, days before crucial Taiwanese elections.&…

Even amid a historically packed global election calendar in 2024, next week’s presidential contest in Taiwan will be one of the most closely watched and significant. The political future of the island and its historically fraught relationship with Chin…

A forthcoming drone made by Autel, a Chinese electronics manufacturer and drone-maker, is being marketed using images of the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying a payload of what appears to be explosive shells.…
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Open this photo in gallery: Author Jessica J. Lee went to Taiwan in 2017 to write her second book, Two Trees Make a Forest. While she was there, she lived in a tenement apartment from the 1960s, and spent time retracing the steps to her family’s old ha…

Myanmar’s military government has admitted that it withdrew its soldiers from a crucial city on the country’s northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups against which it had been fighting for months.&#8…

The US biotech company Thermo Fisher has halted sales of its DNA identification kits in Tibet, nearly five years after it made a similar commitment about the sale of its products in the neighbouring western Chinese region of Xinjiang.…
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When it comes to protecting ourselves from asteroids, we remain poorly prepared. Big leaps have been made – we know where the planet-killing asteroids are and even how to deflect them thanks to DART.…
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The Kirin 9006C was recently announced by Huawei for its Qingyun L540 and Qingyun L420 family of notebooks. Unfortunately, just like the Kirin 9000S and Kirin 9000SL, the single-core and multi-core performance is yet to match what the competition offer…

India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s five-day-long visit to Russia in the final week of 2023 made headlines worldwide as a ground-breaking event, a geopolitical pivot and perceived divergence from the United States-led Western bl…

Following weeks of intense fighting with junta troops, a rebel alliance in Myanmar has taken control of a strategic town near the country’s unstable northern border with China, both the alliance and the junta announced.…
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On Saturday, Taiwan’s defence ministry blasted Beijing for flying balloons across the median line that separates the self-ruled island from China, saying they pose a “serious threat” to aviation routes and are a form of harassment.…
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The tensions between the US and China made the global economy shudder in 2023. The ramifications of the Ukrainian war echoed beyond the country’s border. In Africa, the coup d’état in Niger and Gabon contributed to the global democratic retreat of rece…

Manulife strategists broke down the biggest themes and drivers for markets in 2024.
They said peak growth for this cycle is behind us, and that central banks will continue waging war on inflation.…
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'We are looking at 2024 through the keyhole, trying to size it up before we let it in.' Photograph: iStock
The 2023 calendar is dead. Its watch has ended. The free one you got from the Chinese takeaway last year has been replaced on the kit…

Taiwan’s defence ministry accused China on Saturday of threatening aviation safety and waging psychological warfare on the island’s people with a recent spate of balloons spotted near or over the island, days before key Taiwanese elections.…
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Stoic philosopher Seneca had said that “every new beginning comes with some other beginning’s end”. The eventful 2023 has ended and the new year of 2024 has begun. It is not going to be merely the change of year.…
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Despite Russia having significantly greater firepower, its illegal invasion of Ukraine has not gone according to plan.
Although Ukraine was not a member of NATO, the West responded to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appeal for help with a mass of…

It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-gam…

Myanmar’s military government has withdrawn its forces from a key city on the north-eastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups.
The Three Brotherhood Alliance took control of Laukkaing late on Thursday after…