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In this July, 5, 2018 photo, a jockey truck passes a stack of 40-foot China Shipping containers, Thursday, July 5, 2018, at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. A glut of cheap Chinese goods is flooding the world and stoking trade tensions
China’s factories are churning out more steel, cars and solar panels than its slowing economy can use, forcing a flood of cheap exports into foreign markets. The oversu... (photo: AP / Stephen B. Morton) CNN
China   Economy   Global Trading   Photos  
Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., delivers his speech during the 88th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in Quezon city, Philippines on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Philippines’s Marcos promises measures after China’s ‘dangerous attacks’
President Ferdinand Marcos says the Philippines will take countermeasures against China after confrontations in the South China Sea last week injured Filipino soldiers an... (photo: AP / Aaron Favila) Al Jazeera
China   Philippines   Photos   Politics  
Australian wine on sale at Singapore supermarket China lifts steep Australian wine tariffs as relations improve
China says it will lift steep tariffs on Australian wine imposed more than three years ago in the latest sign of improving relations between the two countries. | The anti... (photo: Creative Commons / Maksym Kozlenko https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Maxim75) Al Jazeera
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Rohingya migrants look out from a police pick-up truck before being transported to provincial court to hear charge of illegal entry at Paknam police station in Ranong province, southwestern Thailand Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. The Thai navy has detained a boat filled with 78 illegal migrants, many of whom had lacerations and burns they said were inflicted by Myanmar soldiers, authorities said T Organized crime gangs are netting up to $3 trillion annually as Southeast Asia human trafficking ...
Human trafficking-fueled fraud is exploding in Southeast Asia with organized crime rings raking in close to $3 trillion in illicit revenue annually, the head of Interpol ... (photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong) CNN
Human Rights   Human trafficking   Photos   United Nations  
HSBC Tai O Express Banking at 25 Market Street, Tai O, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. HSBC Becomes the First Bank to Launch Blockchain-Based Retail Product
HSBC has recently launched tokenized gold called the HSBC Gold Token. | The bank claims to be the first to issue blockchain-based real-world assets in the retail market. ... (photo: Creative Commons / Mk2010) Coin Edition
Blockchain   First Bank   HSBC   Photos   Wikipedia: HSBC  
Man silhouette in Yoga meditation pose near the patnitop valley in India, Jammu on monday, India, 2nd may 2016. Global Study Aims to Uncover How Humans Flourish
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The inaugural results from the multiyear Global Flourishing study reveal intriguing relationships between religion and how well people’s lives a... (photo: WN / Shilpa) Gallup
Mental health   Photos   Population   Science  
Military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Myanmar’s widening war headed for junta’s heartland
Even before the end of a dry season that has dramatically upended the military balance in Myanmar, the broad and profoundly sobering contours of conflict over the remaind... (photo: AP / Thein Zaw) Asiatimes
Asia   Myanmar   Photos   Politics  
The TikTok logo is seen on a cell phone, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. TikTok: The Clock Is Running Out
By Mel Gurtov | March 27, 2024 | Mel Gurtov | A National Security Threat? | The Chinese-owned TikTok has been under attack throughout the last two US administrations, on ... (photo: AP / Michael Dwyer) Knoxville Daily Sun
China   Photos   Social Media   US States  
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks before unveiling the Model Y at the company's design studio Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. Elon Musk got special favors and access from China that could leave him exposed, report says
Tesla boss Elon Musk during a trip to Shanghai. | STR via Getty ImagesElon Musk was granted special favors to set up Tesla plants in China, a report said.But it leaves hi... (photo: AP / Jae C. Hong) Business Insider
China   Elon Musk   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Elon Musk  
A boy cools off in a fountain at the city center of Budapest, Hungary, during a heatwave with 35 degrees Celsius on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023 Extreme heat is the silent assassin of climate change
Twenty million people dead in a heatwave, some poached alive in a lake they hoped to cool off in. | It is, for now, science fiction.Keep reading | list of 4 itemslist 1 o... (photo: AP / Martin Meissner) Al Jazeera
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Weather  
Robin Li, CEO of search giant Baidu, talks about AI during the Baidu Create 2018 held in Beijing, China Early Reports Hint at Apple’s Baidu AI Integration in the iPhone 16
Apple has been holding off on committing to AI for a while now but with the recent reports of the Baidu AI integration in the iPhone 16, we won’t have to wait too much ... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan) Technowize Magazine
Artificial intelligence   China   Photos   Technology  
TikTok 3d Icon Concept US TikTok Ban Aims to Weaken China & Protect Big Tech Monopolies
By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report | The US government has for years threatened to ban TikTok, one of the most popular social media apps in the country. | It’s... (photo: Creative Commons) Scheerpost
Ben Norton   China   Photos   TikTok   Wikipedia: TikTok  
Israeli soldiers are seen in Balata, a Palestinian refugee camp in Nablus, West Bank, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023 Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After narrowly backing Israel’s military action in Gaza in November, Americans now oppose the campaign by a solid margin. Fifty-five percent cur... (photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed) Gallup
Gaza   Israel   Photos   US States  
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, September 9, 2021. March Economic Confidence Steady, Still Improved From Fall
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While still negative, Americans’ view of the U.S. economy remains improved in 2024 from last year. Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index is a... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Tomas Eidsvold) Gallup
Economy   Global Trading   Photos   US States  
Police officers examine the site of suicide bombing at a highway in Shangla, district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle on Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said. (AP Photo) Chinese workers killed in suicide bomb blast as Pakistan grapples with attacks on Beijing’s interests
Five Chinese workers and their local driver were killed in a suicide bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of terror atta... (photo: AP) CNN
China   Pakistan   Photos   Terrorism  
Cambodia elections Democratic dawn in Cambodia’s autocratic darkness
We left Cambodia either during the Vietnam War or after the fall of the Khmer Rouge –a regime that killed over two million citizens between 1975 and 1979. The plight of... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith) Asiatimes
Cambodia   Democracy   Photos   Politics  
In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, rescuers work in the burned concert hall after a terrorists attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. Russia is still reeling from the attack Friday in which gunmen killed 139 people in the Crocus City Hall, a concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow. Health officials said about 90 people remain hospitalized, with 22 of them, including two children, in grave condition. Tajik terror shadow falls over Russia
It has emerged that the four gunmen charged in the murder of at least 139 concert-goers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall theater were all citizens of the small post-Soviet ... (photo: AP / Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP) Asiatimes
ISIS   Moscow Attack   Photos   Tajikistan   Wikipedia: Crocus City Hall attack  
Taiwan reservists participate in reserve military training in Taoyuan, Northern Taiwan, Thursday, May 11, 2023 Give Taiwan’s youth a fighting chance against China
One might get the impression that Taiwan’s defense is just a question of having the right weapons and hardware. But there’s of course more to it than that, including ... (photo: AP / Chiang Ying-ying) Asiatimes
China   Photos   Politics   Taiwan  
FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2009 file photo, men work at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the Iraqi city of Basra. Iraq is rich in oil, but protesters say they dont see the fruits of this wealth. Iraq blames foreign companies for ongoing closure of oil pipeline
The Iraqi oil ministry said companies operating in the Kurdistan region have failed to submit contracts for revision. | Iraq’s oil ministry has blamed foreign oil compa... (photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani, File) Offshore Technology
Energy   Iraq   Oil   Photos  
FILE - Exxon Mobil Billings Refinery sits in Billings, Mont. Exxon Mobils scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists' conclusions, a new study says Exxon ahead of LNG expansion targets
The oil and gas giant will focus on producing its own liquefied natural gas (LNG) rather that trading that of third parties. | US oil and gas company Exxon Mobil is ahead... (photo: AP / Matthew Brown, File) Offshore Technology
Gas   Global Trading   Oil   Photos  
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