WASHINGTON - The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of China's popular social media app TikTok in the United States, the committee confirmed on Friday (Jan 27)....
A year on, Britain’s answer to CFIUS has been used to review dozens of acquisitions involving foreign buyers. Companies with links to China, Hong Kong and Russia have all seen deals blocked by the British government since the law took...
As the family of Tyre Nichols endures the release of the video of the young Black man’s fatal traffic stop with Memphis police, and the nation still smarts from the civilian-filmed 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 ― Twitter users will be able to appeal account suspensions and be evaluated under the social media platform's new criteria for reinstatement, starting February 1, the company said yesterday.Under the new criteria, which follow billionaire Elon...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a pair of top aides to President Joe Biden met in Washington on Friday to discuss the electric vehicle industry and the broader goal of electrification. Musk and Biden did not meet, White House press...
Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty ImagesFederal prosecutors are attempting to bar indicted...
SINGAPORE — After a series of sharp increases, the fixed-rate mortgage packages of some local banks began to rise and fall, and the annual interest rate of some packages has fallen below 4%. OCBC told MediaCorp’s English-language news site CNA...
By Jing Xuan Teng Covid-19 swept swiftly through southern China’s rural mountain villages last month, and the wave appears to have subsided — supporting expert theories that the country’s most recent outbreak preceded the lifting of restrictions. Ethnic Blang women,...
Wee Kek Koon once felt a need to stop using words Cantonese speakers in Singapore and Malaysia borrowed from other tongues, before realising they were linguistic markers of who he is. READ SOURCE...
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