by Patrick Galey with Marlowe Hood The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions, the UN said Tuesday in its annual assessment on greenhouse gases. The United Nations Environment Programme said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6 percent, each year, every […]
Officials at a Hong Kong university where police and protesters clashed violently a week ago said Tuesday they had searched the entire campus and found just one remaining holdout in a sign the campus siege may be near an end. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) emerged as the epicentre of the territory’s increasingly violent protest […]
by M. Jegathesan An Australian grandmother won her final appeal against a death sentence for trafficking in Malaysia on Tuesday and walked free, after claiming she fell for an online love scam and was tricked into transporting drugs. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto looked delighted and kissed her lawyer in court after the ruling, which brings […]
China has summoned the US ambassador to demand that the United States scrap legislation backing Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, or “bear all the consequences”, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The Hong Kong bill awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature supports human rights and democracy in the city, while threatening to revoke the territory’s special economic status. […]
Australian police have opened an investigation into explosive claims by a self-styled Chinese spy who defected Down Under with an apparent trove of sensitive intelligence. The Australian Federal Police announced the probe and is expected to interview Wang Liqiang over his claims that Chinese intelligence tried to interfere with Australian politics. Wang fled to Australia […]
by Catherine MARCIANO / Hiroshi HIYAMA Pope Francis on Monday urged renewed help for victims of Japan’s 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster, warning “nobody can start over alone” as he noted “concern” over nuclear power. On the penultimate day of his Japan trip, the pontiff heard the stories of those who survived the so-called […]
by Katia DOLMADJIAN LVMH and US jewellers Tiffany announced Monday a $16.2 billion tie-up that vaults the French group to the top spot in the luxury jewellery segment. The deal comes after LVMH, already the top luxury firm overall, spent more than a month wooing Tiffany, the most iconic of US luxury brands known for […]
by Yan ZHAO / Xinqi SU Hong Kong’s deeply unpopular leader vowed Monday to “listen humbly” to voters after the pro-democracy camp scored a crushing victory in community-level elections that revealed broad public support for a protest movement that has stirred months of violence. In a rout that stunned the semi-autonomous territory, candidates seeking to […]
London’s transport authority on Monday refused to renew an operating licence for the ride-hailing giant Uber because of safety and security concerns. “Transport for London (TfL) has concluded that it will not grant Uber London Limited (Uber) a new private hire operator’s licence in response to its latest application,” it said in a statement. The […]
