The WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) concluded early 30 March with ministers adopting a number of decisions as well as making a commitment to continue work in Geneva on key outstanding issues. #MC14 #concludes #adopted #decisions #progress #key #outstanding #issues
Hong Kong authorities have arrested 42 people in a joint crackdown on triad infiltration and corruption involving a consultancy firm and its building maintenance projects worth HK$180 million (US$23 million), according to the city’s anti-graft watchdog. The arrestees include a consultancy firm owner, a registered inspector and multiple middlemen with organised crime backgrounds. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Monday that it carried out a joint operation with police targeting a sophisticated syndicate suspected of using triad muscle and bribery to manipulate the tendering process for renovation projects across residential estates in the New Territories, Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. The two-day operation took place last Thursday and […]
U.S. marines have arrived in the Middle East. NPR’s Emily Feng has been monitoring the latest developments from the border of Iran and Turkey. #rippling #effect #Iran #war #border #Turkey
Israel said it launched a wave of strikes targeting infrastructure in Tehran and other areas, and Iran retaliated. Officials from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey were meeting in Pakistan in hopes of finding a way to end the war. #Iran #War #Live #Updates #Israel #Strikes #Tehran #Regional #Diplomats #Gather #Pakistan
Ministers and senior officials attending the WTO’s 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) participated in a series of meetings on 28 March to address key issues on the WTO agenda and to provide political direction for the post-MC14 work ahead. #Ministers #exchange #views #key #WTO #topics #paths #MC14
No fast-food chain has ever meant quite what Jollibee means to Filipinos. Forget McDonald’s and KFC, Jollibee – with its sweet spaghetti and crispy Chickenjoy – is something else entirely: a cultural anchor for a diaspora scattered across every continent on Earth. With more than a million Filipinos leaving the Philippines every year in search of greener pastures abroad, the chain has followed them almost everywhere they have gone, building a brand that taps into deep emotions by offering a taste of home. In the Philippines, where Jollibee operates over 1,000 outlets and is the dominant fast-food chain, it is simply part of the furniture. Overseas, it is something closer […]
At least 15 U.S. military personnel were wounded in an Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels entered the war with an attack on Israel. #Yemen039s #Houthi #rebels #enter #fighting #Middle #East
A U.S. official said that earlier an Iranian strike at a military base in Saudi Arabia injured around two dozen U.S. troops, one of the most serious breaches of American defenses since the war began. #Iran #War #Live #Updates #IranBacked #Houthis #Enter #War #Missile #Attack #Israel
On 27 March 2026, the European Union notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it had initiated, on the same day (27 March 2026), a safeguard investigation on imports of grain-oriented electrical steel. #launches #safeguard #investigation #grainoriented #electrical #steel
Hong Kong authorities have defended legal changes that have made it illegal to withhold smartphone passwords from police in national security investigations, after the United States sent a new alert to its citizens travelling to the city. The government on Friday also expressed “strong dissatisfaction with misleading information and sweepingly generalised descriptions” by foreign organisations and media regarding the amendments to the Beijing-imposed national security law earlier this week, as it made “solemn clarifications to set the record straight”. Its strongly worded response came after the US consulate in Hong Kong issued a new security alert reminding Americans that it was now a criminal offence for anyone to refuse giving […]
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