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China is piling pressure on Japan’s Sanae Takaichi. Will it work?
China is hitting Japan where it hurts. Will PM Takaichi give in?
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Tessa WongAsia Digital Reporter
Last month at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo, after receiving thousands of tearful goodbyes from Japanese fans, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were put on a …
India says ‘no’ to Russian oil, Xi takes over, Putin scores big
New Delhi: Over the past few months, Russia offered steep discounts on oil after India reduced its purchases because of Western sanctions over the Ukraine war and pressures from a trade deal with the United States.…
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Two U.S. moms in their 40s rocketed to gold and bronze in Olympic bobsled showdown
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — In a nail-biting, four-heat race that boiled down to a contest against a pair of top German sliders, Americans Elana Meyers Taylor, 41, and Kaillie Humphreys, 40, secured silver and bronze medals Monday night on the icy…
ByteDance responds to copyright infringement concerns with Seedance 2.0
A new AI video model from China has flooded the internet with copyrighted content — causing so much backlash that its owner, ByteDance, has promised to “strengthen current safeguards.”
Over the past week, Seedance 2.0 made waves in tech circles as one …
5 hot files that await Canada’s new US ambassador
Wiseman makes his first moves in Washington with some forces behind him to help mollify trade war tensions: percolating anxiety among Republicans over Trump’s signature tariff policy ahead of November midterms, and the White House’s plans to roll back …
Crash course: Vietnam’s crypto boom goes bust
HANOI – As a first-year computer science student in Hanoi, Hoang Le started trading crypto from his university dorm room, egged on by his gamer friends who were making a killing.…
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Andrew met model on China trip as aide sent photos to Jeffrey Epstein
Thames Valley police are assessing claims that Andrew forwarded reports from his trips to southeast Asia and Afghanistan to Epstein and whether there are grounds for an investigation into allegations of a criminal offence of misconduct in public office…
Donald Trump And Netanyahu Agree US Should Press Iran To Cut Oil Sales To China
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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed to intensify U.S. pressure on Iran by curbing its oil exports to China, according to a report by Axios citing U.S.…
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Andrew leaked secrets and met Chinese model at secret dinner as Epstein boasted ‘I’ve got the UK sewn up’: Damning dossier means there MUST be a probe
Police chiefs and ministers last night faced a clamour of demands for a full investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s role as UK trade envoy after a raft of damning revelations by The Mail on Sunday.…
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A TikTok trend captures China’s soft power sparkle
On TikTok, we’re all Chinese – but the trend doesn’t paint the full picture
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Koh Ewe
Ni hao, we’re all Chinese now.
Or at least that’s what they claim on TikTok, where a trend called “Chinamaxxing” has t…