Trading Avocadoes for Political Influence 
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Middle powers like Japan and Canada cannot settle for watching from the sidelines …
Samantha Johnson
A Certain Weeping: Beyond Bin Laden’s Wildest Dreams
Along with grief and loss, the anniversary of 9/11 brought home for many the “incalculable cost” of the quarter century of carnage it unleashed -…
China urges ‘constructive dialogue’ with EU in high-level call with France
In a phone call with his French counterpart on Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the European Union to avoid escalating trade disputes and…
Hong Kong airport builds third runway with strategy to help marine environment thrive
When Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) set out to build a new runway and associated facilities for the three-runway system operation, engineers had to carefully…
Cambodia, Thailand take US$300 billion seabed dispute to UN
Months after deadly clashes that cost dozens of lives along their shared border, the foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand laid out opening arguments on…
Hong Kong visitor arrivals hit post-pandemic monthly high in August
Hong Kong has recorded its highest monthly number of visitors since the Covid-19 pandemic, provisional official figures show, with authorities attributing August’s total to a…