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Airport Authority and Hong Kong Metropolitan University team up to tackle shortage of flight crews by offering flying licence as part of bachelor’s degree in aviation services management.
Latest US protectionist moves targeting Chinese steel and aluminium imports, together with other measures, risk another damaging round of trade war.
Services sector and overseas demand for exports may have buoyed first-quarter GDP, but daunting challenges remain for country on path to recovery.
The new blockbuster film by director Alex Garland offers food for thought on the views of one of America’s founding fathers on federalism and gun rights.
- Over 100 students were arrested at the protests, including Hirsi – she’s also 1 of a handful of participants to be suspended, and spoke about getting barred from accessing her dorm at Barnard College
- Omar joined forces with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 3 other progressive women lawmakers in 2016, presenting a united front against then President Donald Trump as The Squad
This year’s ‘biggest ever’ Balikatan exercises kicked off as Manila took delivery of a state-of-the-art missile system from India – and had hopes for US$2.5 billion in US military aid.
Classes at Columbia University were shifted online on Monday as protests over the Israel-Gaza war heightened tensions on US campuses and led to dozens of arrests at Yale University.
Disinformation campaigns waged by China and Russia fan misperceptions amid years-long ‘drumbeat of very negative information’, says Kurt Campbell.
America’s top envoy pledges to continue raising atrocities with responsible governments days before he is expected to meet senior officials in Beijing.
Knowing what we know now about the celebrities on this list only serves to make these unlikely pairings more fascinating – here are the star couples you may have forgotten existed …
Since Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza, there have been near-daily cross-border exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Most of Swift’s former relationships are believed to have been referenced in her work – but who is her The 1975 frontman ex dating now? Here’s what we know about his grungy model girlfriend
Be it shining a light on female-centric books or encouraging young people to read, these famous bibliophiles have all started their own book clubs
Median height for 18-year-olds of both sexes up by about 2cm, with weight increases also recorded, researchers say.
Musk has ordered the company’s biggest lay-offs ever and staked its future on a next-generation, self-driving vehicle concept called the robotaxi. People familiar with his directives are unsettled by the changes the CEO wants to push through.
Terry Anderson was snatched by Islamist militants in war-torn Lebanon in 1985. He was chained and blindfolded during long stretches of his almost seven years in captivity.
Ecuador’s prisons agency did not give more details on the death of the prison director. Ecuadorans were voting in a referendum on proposed measures to fight surge in gang-related crime.
He was found to be romantically involved with district lawyer Fani Willis, and later had to step aside for the prosecution of Trump to continue
As the Gaza war drags into its seventh month, conflict on Sunday was focused on Lebanon and the West Bank, but Israeli officials said further fighting in Gaza has been authorised.
The United States appears close to sanctioning an Israeli military unit over alleged human rights violations in the West Bank.
The overnight strikes on Rafah city killed 22 people, most of them children, with one of the victims only 18 months old.
Nashville, Tennessee, famous for music, is making a name for itself among foodies. We try three of its best restaurants – Chauhan Ale and Masala House, XiaoBao, and Aubrey.
Ukraine says its soldiers will benefit from the aid package as Western leaders laud the US move, noting it will help ‘make us all safer’.
Morris is defending her decision to take her four-year-old son to a drag show, as shared during a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show last Friday
A long-delayed US$61 billion in funding for Kyiv’s forces has cleared the House but still needs a vote in the Senate.
Meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi expected to cover unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity in ‘productive and constructive’ trip.
Yemen’s Iran-based Houthi rebels have attacked almost 100 vessels in the vital trading route of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in months of strikes.
Experts say Washington’s plan to rely on surge troops could be tested now the arch-foes have broken the taboo of open military strikes against each other.
The US$868 million Subic-Clark railway will link the former American military bases turned commercial hubs.
USC said it was ‘redesigning’ the entire commencement programme days after the school decided to disallow valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s speech at the May 10 event.
The initiative, launched under then-president Donald Trump, was intended to fight espionage by Beijing, but was slammed as racist and trigger-happy.
In a recent conversation with The Standard UK, the 59-year-old musician criticised a number of today’s biggest pop stars, including Taylor Swift, Madonna, Lana Del Rey and Beyoncé
