US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is expected to arrive in Beijing  on Thursday for a four-day China visit. Photo: Abaca Press/TNS
US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is expected to arrive in Beijing on Thursday for a four-day China visit. Photo: Abaca Press/TNS

Yellen has ‘frank and productive’ talk with ambassador before China visit

  • Yellen conveyed importance of the two largest economies working together on global challenges, including macroeconomic and financial issues, US side says
  • On Saturday, Xie told Biden that Beijing hopes the US will work with China to stabilise and bring their relationship back on track
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US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is expected to arrive in Beijing  on Thursday for a four-day China visit. Photo: Abaca Press/TNS
US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen is expected to arrive in Beijing on Thursday for a four-day China visit. Photo: Abaca Press/TNS

Yellen has ‘frank and productive’ talk with ambassador before China visit

  • Yellen conveyed importance of the two largest economies working together on global challenges, including macroeconomic and financial issues, US side says
  • On Saturday, Xie told Biden that Beijing hopes the US will work with China to stabilise and bring their relationship back on track
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US-China relations

Yellen has ‘frank and productive’ talk with ambassador before China visit

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  • Yellen conveyed importance of the two largest economies working together on global challenges, including macroeconomic and financial issues, US side says
  • On Saturday, Xie told Biden that Beijing hopes the US will work with China to stabilise and bring their relationship back on track

‘China is slowing’: economic recovery stalls as yuan slips, uncertainty abounds

Waning confidence in China’s economic growth has been spreading, with global investment banks revising down their second quarter sequential growth forecasts ahead of the release of the data later this month.

Waning confidence in China’s economic growth has been spreading, with global investment banks revising down their second quarter sequential growth forecasts ahead of the release of the data later this month.

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‘Obvious abuse’: backlash grows against Japan festival after horse euthanised

Japan’s annual ‘Rising Horse’ festival sees the animals forced to run up a steep hill and clear a two-metre high ‘wall’ while being slapped, yelled at, and hit with ropes, sticks and whips.

Japan’s annual ‘Rising Horse’ festival sees the animals forced to run up a steep hill and clear a two-metre high ‘wall’ while being slapped, yelled at, and hit with ropes, sticks and whips.

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“Ageuma Shinji” (or Rising Horse) festival in the city of Kuwana. Photo: Twitter/@kuwana_City

‘Obvious abuse’: backlash grows against Japan festival after horse euthanised

Japan’s annual ‘Rising Horse’ festival sees the animals forced to run up a steep hill and clear a two-metre high ‘wall’ while being slapped, yelled at, and hit with ropes, sticks and whips.

4 Jul 2023 - 9:37AM

Russia says Ukraine attacked Moscow with at least 5 drones

Russia called it a ‘terrorist act’ that disrupted the functioning of the Vnukovo international airport.

Russia called it a ‘terrorist act’ that disrupted the functioning of the Vnukovo international airport.

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Russia says Ukraine attacked Moscow with at least 5 drones

Russia called it a ‘terrorist act’ that disrupted the functioning of the Vnukovo international airport.

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Hong Kong’s bounty for 8 security law suspects sends world ‘strong message’: Lee

Chief executive calls for those, including relatives of suspects, with information on activists to come forward, vowing they will be rewarded.

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Gems of Hong Kong’s Southside

Welcome to the Southside: Hong Kong’s very own utopia

The Southside area of Hong Kong Island has always attracted the city’s most well-heeled. This multimedia feature comprises videos, photographs and stories that explore the area and what makes it ideal for those seeking tranquil yet active lifestyles.

Where will Singapore’s sex workers go as Orchard Towers closes its club doors?

In its heyday, Orchard Towers was full of go-go bars, strip clubs and discos. Now, the nightclubs that remain have until the end of the month to move out – leaving exotic dancers, live bands and sex workers in the lurch.

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A multiracial Malaysia would be unconstitutional, says Mahathir in Anwar swipe

‘The constitution stresses a Malay-Malaysia’, said two-time prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, as he predicted Anwar Ibrahim’s government would ‘collapse’ if it didn’t follow the Democratic Action Party’s ‘manifesto’.

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Hong Kong’s bounty for 8 security law suspects sends world ‘strong message’: Lee

Chief executive calls for those, including relatives of suspects, with information on activists to come forward, vowing they will be rewarded.

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Hong Kong’s bounty for 8 security law suspects sends world ‘strong message’: Lee
Gems of Hong Kong’s Southside

Welcome to the Southside: Hong Kong’s very own utopia

The Southside area of Hong Kong Island has always attracted the city’s most well-heeled. This multimedia feature comprises videos, photographs and stories that explore the area and what makes it ideal for those seeking tranquil yet active lifestyles.

Welcome to the Southside: Hong Kong’s very own utopia

Where will Singapore’s sex workers go as Orchard Towers closes its club doors?

In its heyday, Orchard Towers was full of go-go bars, strip clubs and discos. Now, the nightclubs that remain have until the end of the month to move out – leaving exotic dancers, live bands and sex workers in the lurch.

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Where will Singapore’s sex workers go as Orchard Towers closes its club doors?

A multiracial Malaysia would be unconstitutional, says Mahathir in Anwar swipe

‘The constitution stresses a Malay-Malaysia’, said two-time prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, as he predicted Anwar Ibrahim’s government would ‘collapse’ if it didn’t follow the Democratic Action Party’s ‘manifesto’.

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A multiracial Malaysia would be unconstitutional, says Mahathir in Anwar swipe
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A work ship is seen offshore where the Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has installed  the last piece of an undersea tunnel to be used to release treated radioactive wastewater, during a media tour of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan on June 26. Photo: AP

Letters | What G7’s non-opposition to Japan’s nuclear waste water plan says

Readers discuss the rich world’s support for the Fukushima water release plan, a win-win for Hong Kong and golf, and a compromise on Fanling.

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Opinion | Why China should maintain open and inclusive debate about its economy

Open and candid exchanges about the national economy have helped authorities pinpoint problems and find quick solutions, but the silencing of prominent financial writer Wu Xiaobo could put a dent in those lively debates.

Open and candid exchanges about the national economy have helped authorities pinpoint problems and find quick solutions, but the silencing of prominent financial writer Wu Xiaobo could put a dent in those lively debates.

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Why China should maintain open and inclusive debate about its economy

Opinion | Hong Kong’s talent hunt is giving its property market a needed boost

Signs of an influx of returning professionals and newcomers under the recently launched talent scheme provide optimism that the city’s economy, while not fully recovered, is on the way to recovery.

Signs of an influx of returning professionals and newcomers under the recently launched talent scheme provide optimism that the city’s economy, while not fully recovered, is on the way to recovery.

4 Jul 2023 - 8:30AM
Hong Kong’s talent hunt is giving its property market a needed boost