Covid is spreading rapidly across China as hundreds of millions of people make plans to celebrate the start of the new lunar year. Is the surge past its peak or is more to come?
Streetwise: Ireland’s Ardmore and the tanker group led 2022 stock gains
Weekly finance newsletter looks back over the winners and losers in US-listed shipping stocks in 2022
Russia’s Putin lays into minister Manturov for ‘fooling around’
Russia’s president publicly tells off the industry minister for delays in ordering planes.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried denies stealing user funds and repeats claims of solvency in new post
Bankman-Fried repeated several claims which bankruptcy officials and federal regulators have denied or contradicted.
South Koreans angry that their government, and not Japan, may pay WWII forced labour victims
South Korean officials are considering creating a domestic fund to compensate Koreans who were enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of the Second World War, as they desperately try to repair re…
Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in east
Russia said Thursday that its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine, which would mark an elusive victory for the Kremlin but come at the cost of heavy Russian casualties and extensive destruction of the territory t…
Threema Under Fire After Downplaying Security Research
The developers of the open source secure messaging app Threema have come under fire over their public response to a security analysis conducted by researchers at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.
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French education minister presents plan to tackle drastic school level slump
France’s National Education Ministry this week announced new measures to get schoolschildren’s basic French and maths skills up to scratch, including two extra hours of reading and writing, and daily dictation exercises.
Chinese Travellers Rushing To Hong Kong For mRNA Covid Vaccines: Report
Scores of mainland Chinese travellers are rushing to Hong Kong to receive mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which are not available on the Chinese mainland, as the country grapples with a torrent of infections that have overwhelmed its health system.