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World prepares to ring in 2024
Jubilant crowds will bid farewell to the hottest year on record Sunday, closing a turbulent 12 months marked by clever chatbots, climate crises and wrenching wars in Gaza and Ukraine. The world's population -- now over eight billion -- will see out the old and usher in the new, with many hoping to shake the weight of high living costs and global tumult. In Sydney, the self-proclaimed "New Year's capital of the world", more than a million partygoers are expected to pack the city's foreshore,...
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Chinese restaurateur in HCMC runs sex ring for foreigners
A Chinese restaurateur in HCMC has been accused of hiring 200 women to act as prostitutes for foreigners at his restaurant. Zhang Lei, 38, along with seven others, was arrested by HCMC police on Saturday to be investigated for procuring prostitutes. Police seized around VND22 billion ($906,470) at his residence, which he said was the revenue of his restaurant, located in District 5, over several months. A local tipoff revealed that his Fortune restaurant on Tran Hung Dao Street had signs of...
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Look of the week: The hidden meaning behind this royal scarf
Are you part of a matching pyjama family? The twee tradition of Christmas morning coordination has recently become a kind of visual shorthand, allowing the internet to infer all kinds of notions about the inner workings of a stranger’s clan. “If you come from a matching pjs family I can’t relate to you at all,” read one post on X. “I wish my family were a matching pjs type of family,” chimed another. True or not, the groupthink of unison dressing seems to relay a powerful message of unity and t...
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Singapore readies sales tax hike as demographic crunch looms
Singapore households are bracing for a sales tax hike that takes effect in the new year as the government shores up coffers ahead of an expected surge in social spending in the rapidly ageing city-state in the years ahead. The goods and services tax, which is levied on everything from groceries to diamond rings, will be increased by one percentage point to 9% on Monday, the second phase of a two-stage rate hike. This year the sales tax was raised to 8% from the previous 7%, which had been unc...
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Why Japan May Join China, U.S. On Moody’s Downgrade Watchlist
Japan could perhaps make a plausible argument for avoiding that fate if Prime Minister Fumio Kishida weren’t fighting for his political life.Lists of major economies facing credit downgrade risks in 2023 share a curious omission: Japan. Odd, given the bewildering number of headwinds zooming Tokyo’s way from all directions. They include a deepening Chinese slowdown, fallout from the highest U.S. yields in 17 years, and a crushing Japanese debt load colliding with a likely recession. Making thin...
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China's Huawei says expects revenue up almost 9% in 2023
  A Huawei logo is seen outside the fence at its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. Photo by Reuters Chinese tech giant Huawei said Friday it "weathered the storm" of U.S. sanctions as it announced a rise of almost 9% in revenues in 2023, a year that saw it shock Washington with the release of a high-end smartphone. The Shenzhen-based giant has been at the center of an intense standoff between China and the United States, with Washington warning its equipment could be...
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China expects searing heat, more weather extremes in 2024
China - grappling with one of its coldest Decembers on record - will likely have to brace for another round of scorching heat and an increase in extreme weather next year due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, a senior climate expert said. This year has seen China lurch from some of its hottest temperatures logged since 1850 to a harsh cold snap that froze many parts of the country for close to a fortnight earlier this month. "2024 may be hotter and it could also be a year when extreme weath...
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Plane with Indian passengers leaves France after police release
A plane with close to 300 Indian passengers detained near Paris over suspicions of human trafficking took off Monday for Mumbai after being cleared for departure by French police. The Airbus A340 carrying 303 Indians had been bound for Nicaragua when it was detained last Thursday at Vatry airport, east of Paris, where it had stopped for refuelling. It had arrived from Dubai and there was an anonymous tip-off that it was carrying potential victims of human trafficking. Of the original 303 peop...
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At least 113 killed in attacks in central Nigeria, local official says
The death toll in weekend attacks in the central Nigerian state of Plateau has risen to 113, a local official said on Monday, in a region where clashes between herders and farmers are common. It is the worst outbreak of violence in Plateau since May, when more than 100 people were killed in farmer-herder attacks. AFP News Agency had cited the Nigerian army on Sunday as saying 16 people were killed in the latest attacks. The acting chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, Mon...
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China earthquake death toll rises to 149, two still missing after a week
One of China's most powerful earthquakes in recent years killed at least 149 people in a remote northwestern region, according to state media, with two people still missing after the magnitude 6.2 temblor hit a week ago. The epicentre of the quake straddled the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai in an area where many of China's Hui people, a tight-knit ethnic minority characterised by its distinctive Muslim identity, are found. Gansu bore the brunt of the quake's wrath. More than 200,000 homes wer...
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