Federated Hermes has announced plans to open an office in Hong Kong to capitalize on the region's growing wealth market. Deborah Cunningham, the firm's Global Liquidity Markets CIO, spoke with Bloomberg’s David Ingles and Yvonne Man at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong. (Source: Bloomberg)
Federated Hermes has announced plans to open an office in Hong Kong to capitalize on the region's growing wealth market. Deborah Cunningham, the firm's Global Liquidity Markets CIO, spoke with Bloomberg’s David Ingles and Yvonne Man at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tearful goodbyes as Japan returns pandas to China amid worsening ties 3 hours ago Share Save Kelly Ng and Shaimaa Khalil , Tokyo correspondent Share Save EPA Twin cubs Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei will return to China on Tuesday Thousands of people flocked to a zoo in Japan on Sunday to say farewell to the country's last two giant pandas, who are set to return to China on Tuesday. Emotions ran high at th...
Tearful goodbyes as Japan returns pandas to China amid worsening ties 3 hours ago Share Save Kelly Ng and Shaimaa Khalil , Tokyo correspondent Share Save EPA Twin cubs Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei will return to China on Tuesday Thousands of people flocked to a zoo in Japan on Sunday to say farewell to the country's last two giant pandas, who are set to return to China on Tuesday. Emotions ran high at the Ueno zoo in Tokyo as people stood in line – some for as long as three-and-a-half hours – to see twin cubs Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei one last time. This comes at a very tense moment in relations between Tokyo and Beijing. Ties have sharply deteriorated after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Tokyo would get involved militarily if China attacked Taiwan. The twins' departure will leave Japan without any pandas for the first time since 1972, the year the two countries normalised diplomatic ties. The People's Republic of China has used giant pandas as a gesture of goodwill towards its international allies and competitors since it was founded in 1949. But China retains ownership of all pandas it loans to foreign countries, including cubs born abroad. In return, host countries pay an annual fee of about $1m (£790,000) per pair of pandas. According to Tokyo's metropolitan government, some 108,000 people vied to get one of the 4,400 slots available for one last look at the zoo's beloved pandas. "I have been bringing my son here since he was a baby, so I hope it becomes a good memory for him. I'm glad we could come today to remember them," one woman told the BBC. Xinhua Emotions ran high at the Ueno zoo in Tokyo as fans bade the twin cubs farewell Another woman recalled witnessing the pandas' growth journey. "Witnessing their growth, especially since they were so small, has been such a joy," she said. Some visitors were pictured sobbing as they bade the bears goodbye. Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were born in 2021 at the Ueno zoo to their mother Shin Shin and their father Ri Ri, bot...
After a brief countdown by conservationists, a young Indo-Pacific leopard shark glided into the blue waters off Maiton Island in southern Thailand , released in the country’s first efforts to “rewild” the endangered species. Once a familiar sight for snorkellers and divers, the spotted sharks have sharply declined in the wild over the past decade due to overfishing and habitat loss, even as they f...
After a brief countdown by conservationists, a young Indo-Pacific leopard shark glided into the blue waters off Maiton Island in southern Thailand , released in the country’s first efforts to “rewild” the endangered species. Once a familiar sight for snorkellers and divers, the spotted sharks have sharply declined in the wild over the past decade due to overfishing and habitat loss, even as they flourished in private aquariums. “Why not take the breeding population that is doing well in the aquariums and release them back into the wild so that the wild population can recover?” said Metavee Chuangcharoendee, project manager of the StAR Project Thailand, a partnership launched last year between the government, NGOs and aquariums. Advertisement The latest release in December included the sharks Maiton, Hope, Spot and Toty, each nearly two years old. A shark nanny feeds a juvenile Indo-Pacific leopard shark inside a sea pen ahead of its release into the wild on December 6, 2025. Photo: Reuters They were among seven pups released so far, after being bred and raised in an aquarium for about a year. Advertisement All spent months being taught behaviours they will need in the wild, including in the sea pen off the pier at Maiton Resort, where they adjust to natural conditions.
外交部提醒農曆新年期間避免前往日本 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】外交部提醒中國公民在農曆新年期間應避免前往日本。 當局透過「領事直通車」微信公眾號發布提醒,指近期日本社會治安不靖,針對中國公民的...
外交部提醒農曆新年期間避免前往日本 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】外交部提醒中國公民在農曆新年期間應避免前往日本。 當局透過「領事直通車」微信公眾號發布提醒,指近期日本社會治安不靖,針對中國公民的罪案多發,部分地區連續發生地震,造成人員受傷,日本政府已就後續地震發出警告。中國公民在日本面臨嚴重安全威脅,近期應避免前往日本,已在日本的中國公民應密切關注當地治安形勢,及地震和次生災害預警信息,如遇緊急情況應及時報警並聯繫駐日使領館尋求協助。
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction When we talk about our inability to pay attention, to concentrate, we often mean and blame our phones. It’s easy, it’s meant to be easy. One flick of our index finger transports us from disaster to disaster, from crisis to crisis, from maddening lie to maddening lie. Each new unauthorized a...
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction When we talk about our inability to pay attention, to concentrate, we often mean and blame our phones. It’s easy, it’s meant to be easy. One flick of our index finger transports us from disaster to disaster, from crisis to crisis, from maddening lie to maddening lie. Each new unauthorized attack and threatened invasion grabs the headlines, until something else takes its place, and meanwhile the government’s attempts to terrorize and silence the people of our country continue. So let me break it down. There is one story: our country is on the brink of an authoritarian take-over. In Minneapolis an innocent poet and an ER nurse at a VA hospital were both killed in cold blood by federal agents. It is happening now. Toddlers are being sent to detention centers; videos of their gyms for kids recall the youth choruses that the Nazis so proudly showed off at the Terezin concentration camp. Intimidation and violence are being weaponized against the citizens of Minneapolis, some of whom are afraid to leave their houses for fear of being beaten, arrested and shackled, regardless of whether they are US citizens or asylum seekers or people from another country peacefully living and working here for decades. Francine Prose is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Continue reading...