Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) has opened its first branch outside its home market, moving into mainland China to tap surging cross-border business opportunities as competition among foreign lenders in the Greater Bay Area intensifies.
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Clerical, administrative and professional positions are most at risk, according to the report. Manual trades, craft and agricultural work remain relatively insulated, with the effects of AI varying across the region
Tonnes of aid from regional partners began to roll into Colombia on Wednesday, as the search for survivors in the rubble of a powerful earthquake grew more desperate after the temblor razed buildings, buckled roads and crushed cars.
The devastation has tested Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, and his government as it scrambles to respond to the disaster and civil society as it pushes to provide aid to the most affected communities.
De la Espriella said Wednesday evening that at least 265 people died in the 7.
For decades, thousands of Chinese investors made pilgrimages each spring to Omaha, in the central US state of Nebraska, treating Warren Buffett’s shareholder meetings for investment firm Berkshire Hathaway less as corporate briefings than as audiences with an oracle.
Buffett’s retirement as CEO, effective January 1, ended a 60-year run at the helm of the global conglomerate. Though he remains chairman, he was succeeded as chief executive by Greg Abel, who joined Berkshire in 1999 and had run its non-
US prosecutors have charged 11 people over an alleged decade-long network that arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages, primarily for Chinese nationals seeking green cards, including matches with at least 14 active-duty American soldiers.
About 11 of the soldiers, who were stationed at a US Army base in Kentucky,
Beijing pledges help after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake, but its ambassador’s request for a coordinator remains unanswered
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Foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said Beijing would do what it
This field has been one of the most durable links in the US-China relationship, but a series of new security-related restrictions on federally funded collaborations with Chinese institutions mark the latest, and arguably most consequential, step in a years-long shift away from cooperation.
The timing is striking. The
US State Department also announced earlier this week it had revoked more than 175,000 visas since Donald Trump returned to office
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Gaurav Kumar is a researcher at the Centre for Professional Military Education in the United Service Institution of India, New Delhi.
At Jantar Mantar, New Delhi’s designated protest site, India’s future spent weeks enduring the heat and demanding change. But what kind of change, and why?
These were young people, many of them highly educated but still without a job despite sitting numerous government recruitment exams. Their anger was not because they
Congressional advisers cite AI optimism but question Beijing’s openness after being denied access to Hangzhou tech firms
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A US congressional advisory body on China said the country is projecting an image of confidence even as concerns about its economy and future growth remain beneath the surface, following a week-long visit to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou in July