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SEND ME (But Then Bring Me Feckin’ Home Again)

By Samantha Johnson / August 15, 2026
Breaking News

Wall Street’s Nonprofits Use Selective, Opaque Logic to Defund Charities

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
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How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
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Corruption

Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy in a Challenging Indo-Pacific

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
Corruption

Kazakhstan alleges Big Oil corruption tainted $10.7 billion in contracts, delayed key oil project 

By Samantha Johnson / August 14, 2026
Current Affairs

Why the Chinese yuan could soon be Africa’s most important currency

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Africa is emerging as fertile ground for Beijing’s drive to make the yuan a major international currency and reduce reliance on the US dollar, as…

Current Affairs

Snooker stars not in Hong Kong just for low tax, immigration chief says

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Hong Kong’s immigration chief has rejected claims that world‑class snooker players are using a local talent scheme primarily to cut their tax bills, saying zero‑tax…

Current Affairs

Impact of US trade policy shifts on Hong Kong ‘primarily psychological’: Paul Chan

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Changes in US trade policy and interest rate trends will significantly affect Hong Kong’s economy but the impact will be “primarily psychological”, the finance chief…

Current Affairs

Indonesian earthquake survivors recount chaotic escape: ‘house collapsed on me’

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Melania Nius was at her husband’s hospital bedside on Indonesia’s Flores Island when a powerful quake shook their town to its core, sending patients fleeing…

Current Affairs

Heatwave to persist in Hong Kong before thunderstorms set in midweek

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

Scorching weather will persist across Hong Kong on Sunday and Monday, with maximum temperatures climbing to 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) before a low-pressure system…

Current Affairs

Bead Street’s fraying legacy: craft hub faces uncertain future as shops bow out

By Samantha Johnson / August 16, 2026

In a cramped handicraft shop in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, 70-year-old Jen Kwong was sifting through reels of embroidered and sequinned ribbons while…

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