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China eyes Iran conflict while pushing military modernization - analysis

While global attention is on the Iran war, China quietly advances its military capabilities, focusing on modernization, innovation, and defense spending.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
An illustrative photo of the Iranian and Chinese flags.
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Appeal court clears Jimmy Lai in fraud case but 20-year term remains

"The Court of Appeal gave them leave to appeal against their conviction, allowed their appeals, quashed the convictions and set aside the sentences," the judges wrote.

|ByREUTERS
A representation of the cryptocurrency is seen in front of Binance logo in this illustration taken, March 4, 2022.

Iran transferred $1.7b. to terror proxies through cryptocurrency service Binance last year - NYT

The crypto-currency exchange site reportedly fired or suspended at least four employees involved in the internal investigation, with the company blaming “violations of company protocol.”

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
FILE PHOTO: File Photo: Media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, founder of Apple Daily arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates's Courts to face charges related to an illegal vigil assembly commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, in Hong Kong, China November 3, 2020.

Hong Kong hands media mogul Jimmy Lai 20-year prison sentence

The sentence ends Hong Kong's highest-profile national security trial and a legal sagathat has spanned nearly five years.

|ByREUTERS

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

South Korea is turning to self-treatment, New Zealanders arrested at vaccine mandate protests.

FEBRUARY 10, 2022ByREUTERS
Passersby wearing protective face masks walk at a train station concourse, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan, February 9, 2022.

Chinese shares fall as weakness in tech, healthcare stocks weigh

The fall occurred despite signals of more policy easing to shore up growth.

JANUARY 21, 2022ByREUTERS
People walk at the Bund, in front of Lujiazui financial district of Pudong, Shanghai

Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

Stand News, set up in 2014 as a non-profit organization, was the most prominent remaining pro-democracy publication in Hong Kong.

DECEMBER 29, 2021ByREUTERS
Police stand guard outside the Stand News office building, after six people were arrested "for conspiracy to publish seditious publication" according to Hong Kong's Police National Security Department, in Hong Kong, China, December 29, 2021.

Hong Kong university dismantles, removes Tiananmen statue from campus

Known as the "Pillar of Shame," the statue was a key symbol of the wide-ranging freedoms promised to Hong Kong at its 1997 return to Chinese rule that are becoming increasingly curtailed.

DECEMBER 23, 2021ByREUTERS
Activists hold candles beside the "Pillar of Shame", mourning those who died during the June 4 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, inside the campus of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China May 2, 2021.

From Hong Kong to Jerusalem: Wax on to Israel

Stephen Ho's unlikely story of aliyah begins with a long-forgotten wax museum, which once was in the Shalom Tower in Tel Aviv.

DECEMBER 22, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM
Stephen Ho, 68, from Hong Kong to Kadima, 2011.

Olympians need to be educated about Uyghur genocide - opinion

What doesn’t seem to be considered at all is that the athletes themselves need to be treated as adult moral agents and held responsible for what they will do or not do.

DECEMBER 21, 2021ByTODD L. PITTINSKY
Demonstrators from Hong Kong protest on October 1 in Taiwan on China’s National Day, calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Hong Kong douses fire that trapped 150 people on trade centre roof

A fire broke out in the building in the busy shopping and commercial district of Causeway Bay.

DECEMBER 15, 2021ByREUTERS
Rescue workers evacuate people from the site after a fire broke out at the World Trade centre in Hong Kong, China.

How did a girl from Turkey end up studying in Israel?

In Israel, she said, “You learn to enjoy life in its basic charms."

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TAU International Liberal Arts student Rainbow Yeung

Biden offers temporary safe haven to Hong Kong residents

President Joe Biden on Thursday offered temporary "safe haven" to Hong Kong residents in the United States, allowing potentially thousands of people to extend their stay in the country.

AUGUST 5, 2021ByREUTERS
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has been riding a new wave of populism that will become the central theme in the next decade’s election campaigns across the Western world: disparaging big tech corporations.

Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy tabloid editor

The popular tabloid of staunch Beijing critic Lai folded after several hundred police raided its headquarters on June 17 and froze key assets and bank accounts. It printed its last edition on June 24

JULY 21, 2021ByREUTERS
Police officers stand guard outside the headquarters of Apple Daily and Next Media after police arrested five Apple Daily executives who were suspected to have breached the new national security law, in Hong Kong, China June 17, 2021.