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When Professor Fiona Devine returned to Hong Kong this year, it was her first visit since 2019. Since then, both the city and the global higher education landscape have changed significantly.
Now Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, and formerly head of Alliance Manchester Business School for a decade, Professor Devine arrived in a region shaped by post-pandemic recovery, regional integration and the rise
Park Hoi-lam’s lawyers urged court to find driver Henry Cheng liable for HK$8.4 million in damages after taxi struck her during Sham Shui Po protest
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Hong Kong police arrested 991 people and discovered betting records amounting to HK$365 million (US$46.5 million) during a crackdown on illegal gambling during the World Cup.
The force said on Tuesday that it raided 249 premises suspected of being linked to illegal gambling during its enforcement campaign in June and July that targeted activities surrounding the global sporting event.
Officers arrested 645 men and 3
The launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has revived an intense debate that has raged in Silicon Valley ever since DeepSeek’s shock breakthrough last year: whether China can overcome its limited access to advanced chips to match the performance of the United States’ frontier artificial intelligence models.
Trillions of US dollars might rest on the answer, as some see Chinese developers’ success in increasing performance through architectural innovation as weakening the rationale for America’s vast spending on AI infrastructure.
The man accused of murdering former government minister Ann Widdecombe struck her 21 times on the top of her head with a hammer during the attack at her home earlier this month, prosecutors told a London court on Tuesday.
Widdecombe, 78, who was a prominent figure in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK but no longer a member of
Analysts said any serious disruption in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait could leave Asia with fewer alternatives for Middle Eastern crude, threatening Saudi shipments and increasing the risk of oil prices rising above US$100 per barrel again.
In a statement on Monday,
The man was suspected of killing six welfare workers at a shelter for mothers last month
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A man suspected of fatally shooting six child welfare workers at a shelter for mothers in Stade in northern Germany last month died by suicide in jail on Tuesday, officials said.
The suspect, who has been partially identified in German media as 45-year-old Fatih Khan G., was found dead by jail staff
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday he would cut taxes on electricity bills, the first of several early moves to signal his intent to ease a cost-of-living crisis and quell anger over successive governments’ failure to bring change.
On his second day in his new job, Burnham said his government would remove the value-added tax from domestic electricity bills from October 1, cutting around £45 from the average annual bill of around £1,862 that households pay.
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On Tuesday, the island’s legislature approved an amendment to the Telecommunications Management Act that would exempt satellite communications operators from foreign ownership caps and the requirement to have a Taiwanese chair.
The exemptions – which are subject to security and public interest checks – are widely seen as removing the biggest legal obstacle that has