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South Korea said on Oct. 20 that it will respond sternly if North Korea resumes loudspeaker propaganda broadcasting and bolsters its military posture along the...
A House panel on Oct. 20 challenged online brokerage Webull’s public assurances about who can access sensitive U.S. customer information, citing the company’s privacy disclosures...
A Chinese-developed artificial intelligence tool used against South Korean financial institutions has also been identified in cyberattacks targeting Japanese companies, according to a Japanese cybersecurity...
China is using regular Coast Guard patrols east of Taiwan to put its sovereignty claims into practice under the appearance of routine maritime law enforcement,...
Doctors in China are more likely to stay silent in the face of forced organ harvesting rather than speak out for victims because of the...
The United States has sanctioned five Chinese companies linked to a former Google engineer accused of stealing confidential artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the Silicon...
A regional Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff member said information about possible plague cases would be confidential and “considered an official...
The U.S. Navy has rejected Beijing’s claim that a U.S. warship illegally entered the South China Sea, saying its ship was operating in international waters...
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Published: 3:08am, 22 Oct 2026Updated: 4:25am, 22 Oct 2026Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New Mexico in a consumer deception case spurred by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.The fine issued by state court Judge Francis Mathew is among the largest verdicts issued in US legal history.The award comes after a jury in Santa Fe determined that Meta had violated the state’s consumer protection over 43 million times based on widely viewed deceptive statements made by the company and its top executives about how it handled hate speech and user data.Under New...
China has allowed the Philippines to resupply a grounded warship on a disputed South China Sea reef, the coastguard said on Wednesday, as tension remains...
Published: 4:36am, 22 Oct 2026Updated: 5:08am, 22 Oct 2026Just two weeks before the US midterm elections, Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence...
Published: 4:23am, 22 Oct 2026Updated: 4:58am, 22 Oct 2026Pope Leo needs no further treatment for lung cancer after follow-up tests confirmed the disease was localised,...
Published: 3:38am, 22 Oct 2026Updated: 4:01am, 22 Oct 2026Virginia Tech is accelerating the closure of a joint undergraduate programme with China’s Xidian University, bringing forward...
Published: 3:08am, 22 Oct 2026Updated: 4:25am, 22 Oct 2026Meta Platforms was ordered to pay a groundbreaking US$25 billion civil penalty to the state of New...
US President Donald Trump’s pivot away from Ukraine has triggered fresh questions about his attachment to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the man a top American...
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) pursues a dual internationalisation strategy: attracting talented...
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]For many of Hong Kong’s high-flying executives and entrepreneurs alike, Central is already part...
Tesla has agreed a deal to integrate Chinese fintech giant Ant Group’s Alipay digital payment software into its vehicles in China, as Elon Musk’s firm...
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