Beaten, abused, underfed: life inside an ICE detention facility in Texas
Detainees at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas told two rights groups they were beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from contacting family and lawyers, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
The report, issued by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, spans dozens of pages and is based on 80 interviews HRW conducted with detainees that focused on conditions at Camp East Montana, which is located at the US Army’s Fort Bliss in El Paso.
“People detained at
Mainland China funds increase stakes in Hong Kong biotech amid surge of licensing deals
A growing number of mainland Chinese institutional fund managers have built up stakes in Hong Kong-listed biotechnology stocks over the past month, drawn by attractive valuations amid a surge in cross-border licensing deals in the sector.
China’s largest mutual fund manager, E Fund Management, has taken a 7 per cent stake in gene-editing biotechnology firm Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals, buying additional 91,500 shares in the Beijing-based
‘Neither contractors nor management fulfilled responsibilities,’ Tai Po fire hearing told
An independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades will hear concluding remarks from the government on Thursday as the final round of hearings on the tragedy continues.
The legal representative for nine residents of the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate in Tai Po will also deliver a concluding statement before the judge-led panel on the second last session of the three-day hearing.
Committee chairman Justice David Lok Kai-hong said the government’s closing statement was more than 400 pages long. The
Philippines’ iconic jeepneys face rocky road to go electric
For generations, jeepneys – brightly painted minibuses that are among the Philippines ’ cheapest and most used forms of public transport – have run on diesel, but recent fuel shocks are forcing thousands of small operators and drivers to weigh volatile prices against the debt needed to go electric.
Diesel prices spiked anew by nearly 5 pesos this week, as renewed tensions in the Gulf threatened to strain the country’s public transport sector, giving new urgency to the uneven shift towards e-jeepneys.
Since the Iran conflict began in late February
Why the West has an uphill task challenging China in pharmaceutical ingredients
From rare earth elements to commercial drones, Washington has become all too familiar with the strongest weapons in Beijing’s manufacturing arsenal – the materials and products where China holds a strategic advantage in production, extraction or any other link in the supply chain.
After those near-monopolies provided Chinese policymakers considerable leverage in last year’s trade dispute, US think tanks are asking whether pharmaceuticals represent the next critical dependency.
Their concern is not over the finished pills and capsules lining pharmacy shelves, but the upstream pharmaceutical ingredients, where
Everything you never wanted to know about hosting the World Cup
Every four years, billions of football fans spend a month arguing about offside decisions, whether Ronaldo or Messi is a grass-grazing horned mammal, and whether football is finally “coming home”.
For nations, however, the Fifa World Cup is far more than football. Beyond the national pride that comes with simply qualifying, the tournament offers an unparalleled opportunity to capture the world’s attention.
Cabo Verde’s fairy-tale run to the round of 32 transformed the little-known island nation into a
China’s consumption has a new, fast-growing driver: local tourists
David Chao is a global market strategist (Asia Pacific) at Invesco.
In the first half of this year, leisure travel within China exploded. As the summer travel season builds towards the Mid-Autumn Festival and the “golden week” that follows National Day on October 1, domestic travel has emerged as one of China’s most important, if underappreciated, drivers of consumption and growth.
During the extended Chinese New Year holiday, travel
HKIC reports double-digit investment return as ‘patient capital’ strategy bears fruit
The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) recorded a major jump in investment income during its second year of operation, as it expanded its role as the city’s “patient capital” engine driving local economic development.
The wholly state-owned investment firm generated about HK$6.46 billion (US$824 million) in investment income in 2025, a stunning 175 per cent year-on-year increase, according to its latest financial report released on Thursday.
The
Chinese family reunites with daughter decades after she vanished from market near home
After vanishing from a market near her home 35 years ago, a woman in southern China has finally been reunited with her birth family.
However, injuries found on her face and the failure of nearby broadcast appeals to reach her parents fuelled online speculation about how she disappeared.
Zhong Fenglin, 37, once lived near a market in Nanning, Guangxi, where her parents sold ginger and garlic.
In 1991, her father