From Paris to Dubai to Sydney, crowds began ringing in the new year with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous ...

Workers at Butterfly Effect, an artificial-intelligence startup with Chinese roots, gathered in March to count down to the ...

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The New Year has officially begun in Kiribati, the island country that becomes the first place on Earth to ring in 2026. The ...

Activist Chiu Yan-loy, a member of the Property Owners Anti-Bid Rigging Alliance, explained collusive tendering, common ...

BEIJING | Xinhua | On New Year’s Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his 2026 New Year message through China Media ...

China's military held large-scale drills around Taiwan this week in a warning to the island's leadership and its U.S.

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The daughter of Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, has expressed concerns about her father's ...

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The second day of the large-scale war games, called “Justice Mission 2025,” saw the Chinese military encircle Taiwan on ...

The drills came after Beijing expressed anger at U.S. arms sales, and a statement by Japan's prime minister saying its ...