Trump’s inauguration support worth US$1.3 trillion with Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg in attendance
[South China Morning Post] - 01/21/2025
A gathering of the world’s wealthiest individuals attended the inauguration, and in a telling gesture, the tech billionaires were seated in front of Trump’s nominated Cabinet.
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Panama audit of Hong Kong’s Hutchison aims to counter US canal narrative
‘The [Panama government] needs concrete data to counter this China is controlling the canal narrative,’ insider says.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Israel starts ‘significant’ military operation in West Bank, days after Gaza ceasefire
Israel’s Netanyahu said the West Bank campaign is aimed at Iran-backed militias in the territory.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
China, Russia’s growing Arctic presence underpins Trump’s Greenland musings
Observers doubt the new US president will buy the world’s largest island but his interest underlines its strategic (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Sports Park to host biggest stress test yet on Friday
About 63,000 people are expected to take part in drill aimed to assess the sports park’s capacity.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Donald Trump says he’s open to Elon Musk buying TikTok ‘if he wanted to’
Billionaire given green light by US president, whose executive order extended company’s deadline to find a (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
China’s submarine-launched drones can do more than the US military thinks: study
Amid reports of a new US military plan for an underwater drone release, scientists say China has already done it better.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Elise Stefanik, Trump’s UN ambassador pick, vows to counter China’s ‘significant inroads’
New York congresswoman at Senate confirmation hearing outlines plans to vie with Beijing’s ‘whole-of-government (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025
Hongkonger dies, another injured after knife attack in Yuen Long
Knife-wielding attackers assaulted two men near Hi Yip Factory Building, police say.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Tech titans join Trump for US$100 billion AI boost ‘to beat China’ in Day 2 pledge
OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle CEOs join the new president for White House launch of private sector joint venture Stargate.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Vietnam confident of US ties under Trump: ‘I can play golf all day long’
‘We think we can handle it,’ Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said of Vietnam’s US ties at the World Economic Forum in (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/01/2025
Greenland PM says ‘we don’t want to be Americans’ as Trump takes office
Denmark’s foreign minister said that no country should be able to simply help themselves to another country.
[South China Morning Post] - 21/01/2025