強制佩戴安全帶新例生效，運輸署安全總監李艷芳指，本港道路彎多路窄，法例涵蓋所有巴士路線，是考慮到乘客安全。 強制佩戴安全帶新法例星期日起生效以來，引起不少爭議，運輸署安全總監李艷芳指，當局和巴士公司會加強宣傳教育，協助市民培養習慣，重申法例涵蓋所有巴士路線，是考慮到乘客安全。 運輸署安全總監李艷芳說：「香港道路情況，大家都知道有很多山的地方、斜路，亦有很多巴士需經過高速公路，即使是短程巴士都有機會行駛較高的高速公路，有些窄路和很多彎。巴士不論在市區，還是新界路線，都覺得有需要在車廂內加裝(安全帶)。」 新安排源於2018年大埔致命車禍後，成立的香港專營巴士服務獨立檢討委員會，向政府提出的45項建議，包括加裝安全帶，但沒有提出要立法強制乘客佩戴。 成員之一的羅康錦指，當年委員會認為巴士安裝安全帶後，市民就會自覺使用。 香港專營巴士服務獨立檢討委員會成員羅康錦稱：「我們當時的想法是既然裝了(安全帶)，市民就會用，到底如何執行呢？當時委員會就未落墨，因當時最重要考慮是如何先安裝。」 對於有建議將巴士安全帶，由三點式改為兩點式，羅康錦認為三點式的安全帶一定更安全，明白市民需時適應法例。

U.S. life expectancy hits a new high, as deaths from overdoses and COVID fall toggle caption FG Trade/Getty Images An American born in 2024 can expect to live to age 79, on average, an increase of more than half a year from 2023, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics released Thursday. The average U.S. life expectancy hit an all-time high in 2024, according to the NCHS data, as the nation continued to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and deaths from drug overdoses continued to decline. The new high surpasses the last peak in life expectancy in 2019, and it's the highest since the government started tracking this key measure of the nation's health and well-being in 1900. "It's good news," says Robert Anderson , the chief of the statistical analysis and surveillance branch in the division of vital statistics at the NCHS, a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We seem to have rebounded from the pandemic. This may just signal that we're back to some semblance of normal post-pandemic." Sponsor Message Anderson and other experts cautioned, however, that significant disparities remain among Americans and that the U.S. still lags behind other wealthy nations. "We should celebrate. It's very encouraging to see that mortality is declining and life expectancy is increasing in the United States," says Ali Mokdad , an epidemiologist at the University of Washington. "But we still see very high mortality from drugs, very high mortality from suicide, infant mortality remains high and maternal mortality remains high. So as we celebrate we still have a lot of work ahead." U.S. life expectancy fell in recent years because of a surge in drug overdoses and deaths from COVID-19. But life expectancy has been slowly inching back up since the pandemic ended in 2023 and drug overdoses began falling . The latest rebound seems to have been caused primarily by a continued drop in deaths from drug overdoses and from COVID, Anderson says. In fa...

How the Minneapolis killings look from Trump country toggle caption Adam Gray/AP DENTON, Md. -- The killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last Saturday has enraged many people across the country. But some Trump supporters have sided with the agents and say they still back the president's sweeping enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. Earlier this week, NPR traveled to Denton, a town of about 5,000 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is the county seat of Caroline County, which voted for President Trump by a margin of more than 2 to 1 in the 2024 election. In interviews with more than two dozen people, some Trump voters blamed the violence in Minneapolis on protesters, not federal agents. Sponsor Message "I think the protesters have a huge problem," said Allistaire Lawrence, who was renovating the attic of a house in this picturesque town that was first settled in 1781. "They're no longer protesting. They are impeding justice. Protesting is standing off to the side and not interfering." Pretti stood in the middle of a street in Minneapolis last Saturday taking video of the agents, who were with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Then he helped a woman after one of the agents shoved her to the ground. Lawrence said Pretti should've stayed out of it, especially since the agents were armed. "They've been put in other situations where their life has been at stake," said Lawrence. "They're probably on edge. They're probably a little jumpy." toggle caption John Locher/AP Pretti is the second U.S. citizen killed in Minneapolis this month, following the death of Renee Macklin Good. Lawrence, 39, said everyone should have to abide by U.S. immigration law – even his own family. His mother is from England, and he says that after Sept. 11, 2001, she failed to keep her immigration paperwork up to date and was deported back across the Atlantic. "Paperwork's important," Lawrence said. "That's why we have it." Jennifer Barrow, 43, is a hairdresser who lives ab...

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Yesterday was a tale of two hyperscalers. Both Meta and Microsoft held after-the-bell earnings calls (for Meta’s fourth quarter and Microsoft’s second). Both have faced recent shareholder skepticism about the scale of investment in AI-powered data centers and their seemingly far-off returns. Both companies announced capex projections that blew past consensus expectations. And yet only one firm, Meta, seemed to overcome Wall Street’s wariness. Double standard? Tip of the CapEx “If we end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars, I think that that is going to be very unfortunate, obviously,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told independent tech journalist Alex Heath during a podcast interview in September. He wasn’t kidding. In its earnings call, Meta said it is projecting capital expenditures of $115 billion to $135 billion for its fiscal year 2026, blowing past both last year’s $72 billion capex spend and consensus 2026 expectations of around “just” $110 billion. Microsoft had a big capex surprise of its own. The Windows-maker said its capital spending in the most recent quarter reached $37.5 billion, about $3 billion higher than anticipated and a staggering 66% year-over-year increase. Translation: Fret about overspending and an AI bubble all you want, neither of these giants is tapping the data-center-buildout brakes yet. But there’s more to both of these companies than that. Investors seem relatively happy with Meta’s other circus attractions, so it doesn’t get punished for spending like there’s no tomorrow; Microsoft was a different story entirely: Meta reported fourth-quarter revenue of nearly $60 billion, besting expectations and marking a 24% year-over-year increase, as well as net income that topped estimates. Its guidance for the current quarter also — you guessed it — bested expectations, and its share price jumped as high as 10% in after-hours trading because nothing soothes the shareholder soul like continuing to operate one of the most lucrative adve...

Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin by market cap, is amassing a huge pile of gold bullion in a former Swiss nuclear bunker. The “James Bond kind of place,” as its CEO, Paolo Ardoino, described the storage facility to Bloomberg, houses a gold collection of more than 140 tons. With gold’s ongoing rally, that’s about $24 billion worth. The crypto company bought at least 70 tons of gold last year, Bloomberg calculated, or more than was reported by any central bank besides Poland’s. Now, Ardoino said, it’s stockpiling two tons a week and plans to continue that pace at least through this quarter. You’re So Golden Tether’s main business is its eponymous stablecoin, also called USDT, which dominates the sector with more than $186 billion in circulation. Tether then invests the money it gets from folks buying USDT in other assets such as Treasuries and gold, profiting from the interest. The company’s been piling up gold both for its own reserves and for its Tether Gold product, a token that’s growing as an alternative way for investors to gain exposure to the precious metal: Tether has issued about $2.7 billion worth of its gold-tied token, XAUT, and thinks its circulation could expand to $5 billion to $10 billion this year. That’s small compared with ETFs, but Tether’s CEO expects it to grow as foreign countries eventually launch their own version of tokenized gold that could compete with USD. Tokenized gold is meant to be redeemable for physical gold, meaning Tether should be stockpiling enough gold to at least match the amount of XAUT its customers own (no selling out like Costco). If that promise is kept, it makes the product distinctive from so-called “paper gold” like ETFs, where the institution doesn’t necessarily have investors’ gold stored in a Swiss bunker. Feeling Existential: Tether seems to be prioritizing buying gold because its value isn’t tied to governments as tightly as fiat currencies are. That degree of separation appeals to the crypto indu...

When Brian Niccol took the helm of Starbucks in September 2024, becoming its fourth CEO of the 2020s, the former Chipotle boss had a tall (grande, really) order to fill: reverse a worrying sales slump that shareholders hated with an Iced Passion Tango. On Wednesday, the world’s largest coffee chain reported the first major breakthrough of his tenure. In the fourth quarter, Starbucks ground out its first increase in US same-store sales in two years. A tasseography reading of the coffee grinds on the balance sheet, however, shows the company’s ongoing turnaround remains a delicate corporate balancing act. Bean Counting Niccol, who was hired by the Starbucks board as the company’s share price dwindled, suspended financial guidance after taking over. He shifted focus to a “Back to Starbucks” strategy aimed at slashing wait times and improving service to renew customer interest and put the roaster back on a growth trajectory. On Wednesday, the company reported US same-store sales climbed 4% year-over-year in the quarter, besting Wall Street’s expectations (global same-store sales also rose 4%). Foot traffic at US stores ticked up by 3%, and the amount of money spent per customer ticked up by 1%. These factors helped drive revenue up 6% to $9.9 billion, also ahead of market forecasts. Naturally, this is good news for Starbucks’ brews, but turnarounds aren’t free: One of Niccol’s key initiatives is hiring more baristas in response to concerns that laggard service during peak hours was hurting sales and traffic. Along with especially high coffee bean inflation and US tariffs, this squeezed earnings: Net profit of $293 million was down 62%, and less than half of analysts’ estimates. Starbucks shares finished Wednesday flat, though they are up 13% this year. Investors may be waiting for later today, when Niccol and the executive team are slated to present a long-term plan at the company’s first investor day in over two years. Waiting on the Plan: Investors will be watching th...

1月29日，国际顶级学术期刊《自然》发布了一项复旦大学物理学研究团队题为《斯通纳-沃尔法思反铁磁体的铁磁型双稳态翻转》的研究成果。该研究成果首次发现一类特殊的低维反铁磁材料能在磁场作用下整齐划一地整体翻转，研究人员形象地称之为“集体舞蹈”。这项突破让一种“有潜力但难用”的材料变得“可读可写”。反铁磁材料理论上比现在常用的铁磁翻转更快、更省电，有望用于制造性能更强的存储和运算芯片。过去科学家很难精确控制和探测它的内部状态，此次团队利用自主研发的高清晰观测技术，首次直接“看”到了一种材料能像整体翻牌一样，在两种稳定状态间可靠切换。（央视新闻）

SK海力士公司周四表示，将努力在第六代高带宽内存（HBM）或 HBM4 方面确立压倒性领先地位，就像其在前几代产品中所做的那样，并预计将与三星电子公司展开激烈竞争。 该公司在公布 2025 年创纪录营业利润的第二天举行的电话会议上表示：“目标是在 HBM4 领域占据压倒性的市场份额，就像我们在 HBM3 和 HBM3E 产品领域所做的那样。” SK海力士周三表示，在人工智能（AI）蓬勃发展的背景下，该公司2025年的年度营业利润将达到创纪录的47.2万亿韩元（330亿美元），首次超过了三星电子。 该公司表示：“尽管我们努力最大限度地提高产能，但很难 100% 满足客户的需求，我们预计一些竞争对手会加入竞争。”该公司还指出，人工智能基础设施投资推动了全球需求的“爆炸式”增长。 SK海力士目前正处于HBM4全面量产的最后准备阶段，已向英伟达提供了样品。三星电子预计也将于今年开始全面量产HBM4。 “我们将凭借性能、量产能力和质量，保持领先地位，”该公司补充道。 行业追踪机构 Counterpoint Research 最近估计，2026年SK 海力士将占据全球HBM4市场54%的份额，超过三星电子（28%）和 美光 科技（18%）。 责任编辑：于健 SF069

He is revered for his extraordinary black-and-white images documenting conflict, humanitarian crises and the tougher side of postwar Britain. But an exhibition of work by photojournalist Sir Don McCullin opening this week at the Holburne museum in Bath focuses on a very different subject: Roman sculptures. The show, Don McCullin: Broken Beauty, features images of ancient statues photographed during trips around some of the world’s great museums. They have not been seen before in the UK, and McCullin, 90, said this show – and one final trip to the Vatican to photograph more statues – would be his swansong. He told the Guardian: “I’m too old to work now. After 60-odd years, I’m slightly tired of it all, really. I’m going to do this one last visit to the Vatican. And then I’m going to basically give up photography because I’m just simply physically too old. Your body, in a way, has the final say.” McCullin’s fascination with Roman statues began when he travelled to north Africa with the writer Bruce Chatwin in the 1970s and was enchanted by Roman ruins there. He said: “When Bruce died [in 1989], I was at a kind of crossroads in my life. I had this flashback of Bruce and me in this Roman town, so I rang my publisher and I said, I’d like to do a book about Roman cities. They didn’t seem very enthusiastic about the idea, but they gave me quite a small advance and off I went.” McCullin visited more Roman sites in north Africa and a book called Southern Frontiers: A Journey Across The Roman Empire was published. He said: “I was so thrilled about doing the book because I stepped out of my safety zone.” More recently, he has visited museums in the US and Europe, often visiting before or after public opening hours, giving him the space to study the statues. His images of sculptures at the Holburne are hung alongside the work he is most famous for, such as soldiers and civilians in places struck by conflict, including Vietnam, Cyprus and Northern Ireland. View image in fullscre...

Mothers on social media are advocating a tough, no-nonsense approach to parenting. Does this teach children important lessons – or just make them feel isolated and ashamed? A couple of weeks ago, a video posted on TikTok by Paige Carter, a mother in Florida, went viral. Carter explained that she had thrown her daughter’s iPad out of the window when she had been misbehaving on the way to school, and she films herself retrieving the tablet, now with a cracked screen. The video has been watched 4.9m times, and Carter was congratulated in the comments, with one person writing “Learning Fafo at an early age: top tier parenting.” Welcome to the parenting trend that doesn’t seem to be disappearing: “Fuck around and find out.” In another video , when a small child announces he is going to leave home, his mother says “see ya”, shuts the front door behind him, and turns off the outside light – then opens the door to him screaming and pounding to be let back in (it has been liked 1.5m times). He had learned, said his mother, “the meaning of Fafo”. Continue reading...

Manners and respect are the norm for kids here. Treating them like a nuisance won’t do anything to help France’s declining birthrate In French culture, seven is known as “ l’âge de raison ” , the age at which children know right from wrong and can take some moral responsibility. France’s national rail operator, it seems, puts the age at which a child can be trusted to behave in a non-annoying way onboard a train a bit higher. In launching its new Optimum plus tariff earlier this month, offering spaces onboard its weekday TGV trains between Paris and Lyon with bigger, more comfortable seats, fancy food and no under-12s, SNCF was trying to appeal to the many business travellers who make that journey. But the move has sparked a backlash and a philosophical debate about the place of children in society, against the backdrop of a worrying decline in French birthrates . “We can’t on one hand say that we are not having enough children and on the other hand try to exclude them from everywhere,” argues Sarah El Haïry , France’s high commissioner for childhood. Helen Massy-Beresford is a British journalist and editor who lives in Paris Continue reading...

A deep and painful inquest is under way inside Iran as politicians, academics and the security establishment try to come to terms with what has been described as a catastrophe after the violent protests and their even more violent suppression by the security forces. The shape of the debate taking place in the heavily censored society is emerging, as selective newspapers and Telegram channels slowly open up to international audiences after the protests – which some estimates suggest could have left more than 30,000 dead – that have stunned many Iranians. Fissures are appearing across politics, society and diplomacy, suggesting Iran may be entering a more unpredictable period than a phase of repression by the dominant security establishment. Calls are being made for an independent external inquiry into the death toll, for speeding up the reopening of the internet to save businesses on the brink, and for the government to shift its stance on foreign policy. There is also deep concern that economic shock therapy and sanctions are driving food inflation close to an unsustainable 200% annually, with the stock market and the rial under severe pressure. Few deny the severity of the tragedy that has befallen Iran, even if they disagree about its cause and scale. Politically the crisis is especially deep for the reformists as they have held the presidency for 18 months and initially described the protests as legitimate. Mohammad Fazeli, a reformist sociologist, wrote on his Telegram channel: “Iran’s history will be entangled with this event for decades, buried under the rubble of this catastrophe. “But in these days, beyond the grief for those thousands killed and wounded, a deep sorrow has gripped my entire being. I have no doubt that dozens of others like me have sunk into this same grief and bewilderment. The grief and misery of ‘We failed’.” Criticism of the security services, or their claim that only 3,000 people were killed, is starting to appear. Many commentators attr...

Gathering Summer after summer, I used to descend into a creek that had carved a deep bed shaded by trees and lined with blackberry bushes whose long thorny canes arced down from the banks, dripping with sprays of fruit. Down in that creek, I’d spend hours picking until I had a few gallons of berries, until my hands and wrists were covered in scratches from the thorns and stained purple from the juice, until the tranquillity of that place had soaked into me. The berries on a single spray might range from green through shades of red to the darkness that gives the fruit its name. Partly by sight and partly by touch, I determined which berries were too hard and which too soft, picking only the ones in between, while listening to birds and the hum of bees, to the music of water flowing, noticing small jewel-like insects among the berries, dragonflies in the open air, water striders in the creek’s calm stretches. I went there for berries, but I also went there for the quiet, the calm, the feeling of cool water on my feet and sometimes up to my knees as I waded in where the picking was good. At home I made jars of jam. When I gave them away I was trying to give not just my jam – which was admittedly runny and seedy – but something of the peace of that creek, of summer itself. I once read an essay in which a man tried to figure out how much per pound his garden tomatoes would cost if he factored in the price of all the materials and the hourly rate for his own labour. It was ridiculous and intentionally so, because growing tomatoes gives so much more than a certain number of pounds of fruit. There’s the exquisite smell of tomato leaves, and the sense of time that comes from watching a plant grow, observing pollinators visit, seeing a flower become a fruit, tracking its ripening. There is the pride of doing something yourself. What the tomato-grower was pointing toward is what my friend, the environmental activist and author Chip Ward, long ago called “the tyranny of the qua...

Doctors are being arrested in Iran for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured during Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests, with at least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death. The arrests and death sentence are part of a campaign of “revenge”, say human rights groups, after healthcare workers and doctors refused to ignore the plight of badly injured protesters shot or stabbed at close range, and in some cases set up makeshift treatment centres. An Iranian surgeon, Alireza Golchini, 52, from the central city of Qazvin, has been charged with “moharebeh” (waging war against God), which can carry the death penalty, according to the Norway-based rights group Hengaw. The US state department yesterday called for his release. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, whose figures have been reliable during previous crackdowns, says it has verified more than 6,000 dead and has more than 17,000 more recorded deaths under investigation. 0:46 Bodies line the streets outside a morgue in Tehran as protests continue – video Speaking to the Guardian, his cousin, Nima Golchini, who is based in Canada, said that Golchini was taken from his home on 10 January. “He was arrested in a violent manner in front of his wife and son, who is only 11. They beat him up so badly during arrest, they broke his arm, ribs and dragged him out of his home. My family is terrified.” A few days before his arrest Golchini, who also treated protesters during the 2022 Woman, life, freedom protests, had posted a note on his social media, says Nima, sharing his number and asking injured patients to contact him for treatment. “All he did was his duty of saving lives as a medical doctor. He had sworn to save people’s lives. How can any doctor not stand by his oath? I am worried not only for him, but also for other healthcare workers who have been arrested for simply standing by their sworn oath.” Iranian authorities have not publicly commented on Golchini’...

國家主席習近平會見英國首相施紀賢，習近平表示，中方同英方發展長期穩定的戰略夥伴關係，將造福兩國人民、惠及世界。施紀賢表示，希望與中國建立更成熟的關係。 訪華的英國首相施紀賢上午到北京人民大會堂，同國家主席習近平會面。習近平對施紀賢的到訪表示熱烈歡迎，並表示中英在當前國際形勢下，更需加強對話和合作。 國家主席習近表示：「前些年，中英關係曾經有過波折，這不符合兩國的利益。當前國際形勢變亂交織，中英兩國作為聯合國安理會常任理事國，和世界主要經濟體，無論是維護世界和平穩定，還是促進兩國的經濟、民生，都需要加強對話和合作。只要我們秉持大歷史觀，超越分歧相互尊重，就能交得出經得起歷史檢驗的答卷。」 習近平指出中方同英方發展長期穩定的戰略夥伴關係，勢將造福兩國人民也惠及世界。施紀賢則強調，希望與中國建立「更成熟」的關係。 英國首相施紀賢表示：「我今天來這裡是為了英國人民，18個月前我們當選政府時，我就承諾要讓英國再次面向世界。中國是全球舞台上的重要角色，建立更成熟的關係至關重要。」 施紀賢亦與人大委員長趙樂際會面，下午將會見國務院總理李強，預計將簽署一系列協議，包括一項截斷發動機供應的協議，目的是打擊英倫海峽偷渡活動。有調查指這些偷渡船隻中有六成發動機由中國製造。 根據協議，英國當局將與中方展開聯合執法行動，共享非法出口船用零部件供應鏈的有關情報，並與發動機製造商進行接觸。雙方亦同意深化兩國在打擊有組織犯罪方面的合作。

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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet about 146 light-years away which is Earth-sized and has conditions similar to Mars. The candidate planet, named HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be 6% larger than Earth. An international team of scientists in Australia, the UK, the US and Denmark identified the planet using data captured in 2017 by the Nasa Kepler space telescope’s extended mission, known as K2. Dr Chelsea Huang, a researcher at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in Australia, said the planet has an orbit similar to Earth’s, of about 355 days. The researchers believe the planet has “about a 50% chance of residing in the habitable zone” of the star it orbits. “What’s very exciting about this particular Earth-sized planet is that its star is only [about] 150 light-years away from our solar system,” said Huang, one of the co-authors of the research. “The next best planet around a sun-like star, in a habitable zone, [Kepler-186f] is about four times farther away and 20 times fainter.” View image in fullscreen Dr Alexander Venner led the international team who discovered HD 137010 b. Photograph: UniSQ/University of Southern Queensland HD 137010 b was spotted when it briefly crossed in front of its star, resulting in a minute dimming event. That faint signal was initially detected by a team of citizen scientists – including the study’s first author, Dr Alexander Venner, when he was still a high school student. “I contributed to this citizen science project called Planet Hunters back when I was in secondary school, and it was a big part of how I got into research,” said Venner, who went on to complete a PhD at USQ. “It was an amazing experience to go back to this work and dig up such an important discovery.” The team’s first reaction to the discovery was “that this cannot possibly be true”, Huang said. “But we double checked and triple checked everything and … it’s a textbook example of a transit of a planet.” Th...

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美國會議員審查福特與寧德時代的技術合作 更新 2026-01-29 1:00 PM 【大紀元2026年01月29日訊】（大紀元記者高杉編譯報導）美國「眾議院對中共特別委員會」（Select Committee on the CCP）正在審查福特（Ford）公司與寧德時代（CATL）的電池合作協議。該協議涉及福特使用寧德時代許可技術，在美國電池製造設施生產磷酸鐵鋰電池和儲能系統電池。 審查現有合作協議 據路透社報導，眾議院「美國對中共戰略競爭特別委員會」（Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party）主席約翰·穆萊納爾（John Moolenaar）週三（1月28日）致信「福特汽車」首席執行官吉姆·法利（Jim Farley），對福特使用中國公司「寧德時代」的技術建造數據中心電池，以及進入美國儲能業務的合作協議表示關切。 這位密歇根州（Michigan）共和黨議員在信中要求福特回答一系列關於其與寧德時代之間合作協議的問題，其中包括：自去年通過一項針對新資格實施限制的法律以來，福特與「寧德時代」之間的技術許可和合作生產協議是否已被更新、擴展或以其它方式修改。 與中國企業合作「是嚴重漏洞」 福特在去年12月宣布提列195億美元減值（writedown）準備，並取消幾款電動車型生產。該公司表示，將利用位於肯塔基州（Kentucky）和密歇根州的電池工廠生產儲能系統電池，並計劃在18個月內使初始產能上線。 福特當時指出，「擴大在美國的磷酸鐵鋰電池生產，不僅僅是對能源安全的投資，而且也是對美國工人的投資。每個新設施意味著數千個高技能製造崗位和更強勁的地方經濟。」 穆萊納爾還要求福特澄清，它是否計劃與中國汽車製造商比亞迪（BYD）成立合資企業。 他表示：「最近幾個月的情況顯示，中國（中共）已將汽車供應鏈武器化。這項合作協議是一個嚴重漏洞，如果福特與比亞迪建立新的合作關係，情況只會更糟。」 福特2023年宣布將在密歇根州投資30億美元建造電池工廠，使用「寧德時代」技術生產電池單元。該工廠位於密歇根州馬歇爾（Marshall, Michigan），預計今年開始生產，並將為福特出產的3萬美元的中型電動皮卡生產電池。 福特與中國企業合作...

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格隆汇1月29日｜现货钯金向上触及2100美元/盎司，日内涨2.56%。

(RTTNews) - Kia Corp. (KIMTF.PK, 000270.KS), a South Korean automaker, reported weak profit in its fourth quarter, despite higher sales. In South Korea, Kia shares were gaining around 2.5 percent, trading at 153,500.00 won. In the quarter, net income attributable to shareholders of parent company dropped 15.4 percent to 1.47 trillion Korean won from last year's 1.74 trillion won. Pre-tax profit from continuing operation was 2.11 trillion won, down 13.6 percent from 2.44 trillion won. Operating income fell 32.2 percent to 1.84 trillion won from prior year's 2.72 trillion won. Sales for the fourth quarter were 28.09 trillion won, up 3.5 percent from 27.15 trillion won a year ago. For more earnings news, earnings calendar, and earnings for stocks, visit rttnews.com The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

格隆汇1月29日｜丰田汽车公司连续第六年保持全球最大汽车制造商的地位，尽管面临贸易动荡和日益激烈的竞争，其创纪录的销量进一步拉大了与大众汽车集团的领先优势。该公司周四公布的数据显示，2025年全球销量（包括子公司大发汽车和日野汽车）同比增长4.6%，达到1130万辆。产量增长5.7%，达到1120万辆。数据表明，尽管面临美国总统特朗普发起的贸易战以及其他汽车制造商的崛起，丰田依然能够保持稳步前行。全球汽车制造商一直警告称，由于关税影响，它们面临数十亿美元的损失，它们正通过提高价格、将生产转移到美国或削减产量来应对。新能源汽车方面，丰田去年仅售出不到20万辆纯电动汽车。其中只有4227辆交付给了日本客户，纯电动汽车在日本市场尚未像在其他主要市场那样深入普及。

花旗（C）发表研究报告指出，新东方-s（HK9901）管理层已确认第二季度业绩超出预期，利润率扩张300个基点(不包括东方甄选（HK1797）)，并对超额完成全年目标表达高度信心。报告指出，K12业务在第三季度加速增长，其中高中业务指引增长18%，K9业务指引增长23%(以美元计)。此强劲表现足以抵销全年海外业务的疲软(0%至-5%)，但这仍然受到向非美国咨询领域多元化经营的限制。另外，新东方（EDU）将海外考试准备业务与留学咨询业务合并，旨在降低客户获取成本并打破部门隔阂，是一项关键战略转变。全年展望方面，管理层表示收入和利润肯定将超越预期，对达成目标具信心。花旗（C）认为高中业务指引上调至18%，反映了OMO模式的扩张及人工智能（885728）职场系统驱动的效率提升；K9保留率改善支持全年20%以上的增长。该行续予新东方（EDU）“买入”评级，目标价59港元。

joegolby/iStock via Getty Images T1 Energy Inc. ( TE ) is a company that has popped up a few times for me while researching companies. I recognize that I am a little late to the game on the stock, as it is already up over 300% over the past year. It has come up as it has positioned itself in the middle of two areas in which I have been looking to invest: electricity generation to meet demand (mostly driven by AI and data centers), and the reshoring of manufacturing back to the United States. If you have read any of my previous articles these are two areas that I think are good for my money. Power demand is growing at a faster pace than we can generate it; solar provides the fastest deployable form of power generation. I think manufacturing in the US is a strong investment. A big part of this investment thesis is driven by the fact that US policy is increasingly favoring domestic manufacturing. It is not just by providing tax incentives like Section 45X tax credits and domestic content bonuses, but also through limitations through tariffs or outright bans, like those seen within the drone industry. There are some questions on whether or not T1 Energy is actually a US manufacturer or is controlled by Trina Solar, a Chinese company. This would disqualify T1 and its customers from the tax credits. The question on T1 is not a matter of the strategy but more so with the execution and valuation. T1 is still building out its manufacturing capabilities and also the economics that come with that. It operates one manufacturing facility and is in the process of building out another to become a vertically integrated solar manufacturer. It is a process that requires a lot of capital and therefore requires a lot of future demand to justify the expense. There are also operational concerns of operating the facilities profitably once the build out is complete. There is also the fact that the stock has already run up 300% in the past year, meaning the valuation is not as cheap as it o...

【有線新聞】中頭獎你會如何處理？佛山一名男子日前就中獎800多萬元，接受傳媒訪問時就直言全數交給妻子打理，自己則會繼續努力工作。報道指事主臉上洋溢著幸福笑容，又指家庭和睦、幸福遠比金錢更為重要，因此獲網民大讚「愛老婆會發達」。 公司飛奔回家分享喜訊 冷靜後返回守夜更 據內地傳媒報道，涉事後1月14日超級大樂透第26006期開獎，中彩者通過5+12覆式票中出一等獎1注667萬元、二等獎20注及三等獎45注，單票收獲獎金836萬元。而開獎當晚，事主王先生在交班間隙去吃晚飯隨手對開獎號碼，發現自己中獎後即心跳加速，立刻撥通妻子電話，迫不及待地將喜訊分享給她。 聽到丈夫說自己中了大獎，妻子第一反應是不敢相信，脫口而出：「假的吧？」王先生理解妻子的懷疑，於是匆匆趕回家，將中獎票交到妻子手中。妻子接過票幾經確認，終於相信好運降臨。激動過後，王先生不忘還在值守夜班，平靜下來後又趕回公司。而妻子則驚喜激動得一夜未眠。 稱會繼續努力工作 也會繼續理性購彩 第二天一早，王先生和妻子便開車往佛山體彩兌獎，王先生笑言是用家人生日數字進行隨機組合。王先生又感慨地說自2013年以來，便每期都會購買，始終保持著「不中獎就當支持公益」的理性心態。談到獎金的安排，「王先生臉上洋溢著幸福的笑容，他毫不猶豫地說：『全部上交給老婆打理！我繼續努力工作，未來也會繼續理性購彩。』」 報道指在王先生看來，家庭的和睦與幸福遠比金錢更為重要。將獎金交給妻子，是對她的信任和依賴，也是對家庭責任的一種擔當。據了解，在繳納20%個人所得稅，即167.2萬元後，最終到手金額約為668.8萬元。有網民立即留言：「接好運！畢竟我也是愛老婆寵老婆的人！」

格隆汇1月29日｜柬泰地区边界委员会秘书处会议未达成共识。

格隆汇1月29日｜国际顶级学术期刊《自然》发布了一项复旦大学物理学研究团队题为《斯通纳-沃尔法思反铁磁体的铁磁型双稳态翻转》的研究成果。该研究成果首次发现一类特殊的低维反铁磁材料能在磁场作用下整齐划一地整体翻转，研究人员形象地称之为“集体舞蹈”。这项突破让一种“有潜力但难用”的材料变得“可读可写”。反铁磁材料理论上比现在常用的铁磁翻转更快、更省电，有望用于制造性能更强的存储和运算芯片。过去科学家很难精确控制和探测它的内部状态，此次团队利用自主研发的高清晰观测技术，首次直接“看”到了一种材料能像整体翻牌一样，在两种稳定状态间可靠切换。

资金在担心什么？ 1月29日上午交易时段，伦敦金现货价格继续高歌猛进，一度逼近5600美元/盎司，但A股和港股的金矿股却出现冲高回落的走势，港股的部分个股甚至出现了下跌。 早上，招金矿业（01818.HK）、紫金黄金国际（02259.HK）跌幅一度超过2%。A股金矿股冲高回落，中午收盘龙头股山东黄金（600547.SH）上涨3.89%，报收61.98元，赤峰黄金（600988.SH）上涨4.55%，报收48.99元。 指数直通车数据显示，1月29日上午，黄金股ETF（517520）冲高回落，半日成交26.18亿元，超越28日全天成交额的20.19亿元（28日净流入4.43亿元），其跟踪的黄金股票指数（931238）过去一年收益率近172%（截至1月28日）。29日上午，黄金ETF易方达（159934）上涨5.13%，成交28.38亿元，逼近1月28日36.24亿元的成交额（28日净流入10.83亿元），过去一年收益率83.14%（截至1月28日）。 在第一财经记者采访的业内人士看来，资金面和市场预期差，造成了29日上午金矿股没有跟金价上涨同步，而接下来黄金波动幅度可能加大，金矿股的波动幅度就会更大一些，目前追高风险较大，也可以考虑等金价有明显回调再买入。 光大证券国际策略师伍礼贤向第一财经分析，当前黄金价格继续创出新高，但金矿股表现未能同步跟随，反映出市场预期当前高位金价并不具备持续性特征。近期外部市场波动性较大，特别是美元指数回落推动金价上行。但对于金矿股而言，市场通常以年度平均金价水平作为评估基准，进而判断全年业绩增长预期，因此尽管当前金价处于高位，金矿股表现也未必完全跟随黄金价格走势。股价短线累计涨幅较大，金价同样如此，部分技术指标已严重超买，短期可能出现回落，若金价从高位回落约10%，投资者可以再考虑买入。 港股100研究中心顾问余丰慧认为，当前金价维持高位，而金矿股出现冲高回落的现象，主要可以从资金面和市场预期两个角度来解读：从资金面来看，投资者在面对不确定性的宏观经济环境时，更倾向于直接投资于实物黄金或黄金ETF等产品，而非金矿公司的股票。这是因为直接持有黄金可以避免企业特有的风险，如运营成本上升、生产效率低下等，在市场预期方面，尽管金价上涨反映了避险需求的增加，但金矿股的表现还受到公司自身经营状况、未来盈利预期等因素的影响。 “市场上任何出现爆炒过的交...