Air China Ltd. will resume direct flights between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 30, according to booking information on travel platform Ctrip.com . Flight CA121, using a Boeing Co. 737-700, is scheduled to depart Beijing Capital International Airport at 8:05 a.m. local time and arrive at Pyongyang International Airport at 11 a.m. A return departs Pyongyang at midday the same day. Similar services...
Air China Ltd. will resume direct flights between Beijing and Pyongyang on March 30, according to booking information on travel platform Ctrip.com . Flight CA121, using a Boeing Co. 737-700, is scheduled to depart Beijing Capital International Airport at 8:05 a.m. local time and arrive at Pyongyang International Airport at 11 a.m. A return departs Pyongyang at midday the same day. Similar services are listed for following Mondays. A one-way flight from Beijing was listed at $485 on Ctrip early Sunday afternoon. Only business-class was available for the March 30 Pyongyang-Beijing flight, for $990. The route was suspended in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. International passenger train services linking Beijing and Dandong in China with Pyongyang were restored in both directions on March 12. Read More: China’s Train to North Korea Lacks Passengers on Maiden Voyage The restoration of air and rail links marks a strengthening of diplomatic and economic ties between China and North Korea and builds on the momentum of Kim Jong Un ’s attendance at a military parade last year in Beijing, alongside President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
The Other Bennet Sister Sunday, 8pm, BBC One “To be poor and handsome is misfortune enough; but to be penniless and plain is a hard fate indeed.” While the current Austen-mania is in danger of creating fatigue (this is one of three big new dramas pegged to the author’s 250th anniversary), here’s a sparky reimagining of Pride & Prejudice told from studious, overlooked sister Mary’s perspective. Bas...
The Other Bennet Sister Sunday, 8pm, BBC One “To be poor and handsome is misfortune enough; but to be penniless and plain is a hard fate indeed.” While the current Austen-mania is in danger of creating fatigue (this is one of three big new dramas pegged to the author’s 250th anniversary), here’s a sparky reimagining of Pride & Prejudice told from studious, overlooked sister Mary’s perspective. Based on Janice Hadlow’s novel of the same name, Mary (Ella Bruccoleri) falls for an optician who her mother (a very snippy Ruth Jones) deems too lowly for the Bennet family. Will Mary ever find joy away from her sisters? And the courage to find herself? Cue her journey to becoming “the intellectual one”. Hollie Richardson The Capture 9pm, BBC One Did the real gunman really just walk into the heart of the counter-terrorism unit? At the end of last week’s opener of this terrifyingly close-to-the-bone deepfake thriller, Rachel Carey (Holliday Grainger) thought the man she just saw shoot dead the home secretary was standing in front of her – but will anyone believe her? And has she got it wrong? HR Tusker: Brotherhood of Elephants 5pm, Sky Nature This charming film was shot at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro and follows a trio of elephants with disarmingly human names and oddly relatable habits. Craig, Pascal and Esau are at different stages of life and each embodies different truths about their world. From survival to breeding and playfulness, these huge beasts are surprisingly complex. Phil Harrison Gone 9pm, ITV1 To further fox us as we try to guess whether Michael (David Morrissey), the chief suspect and husband of the deceased, is actually guilty, the febrile crime drama introduces a second, arrogantly unhelpful middle-aged man who might have done it. Then convenient CCTV and some inexplicable supporting-character behaviour keep the pot stirred. Jack Seale Boarders 10pm, BBC Three View image in fullscreen Class comedy … Boarders on BBC Three. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Jon...
Australian households are likely to face increased cost-of-living pressures, with the inflation rate set to rise above 4.5% as the oil price climbs, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday. “We’ve run a couple of scenarios which make it clear on some realistic assumptions about global oil prices and how that would potentially flow through to inflation, and for how long,” Chalmers said in an intervie...
Australian households are likely to face increased cost-of-living pressures, with the inflation rate set to rise above 4.5% as the oil price climbs, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said on Sunday. “We’ve run a couple of scenarios which make it clear on some realistic assumptions about global oil prices and how that would potentially flow through to inflation, and for how long,” Chalmers said in an interview on Sky News. “If we were putting pencils down on those forecasts today, we’d have inflation peaking somewhere between the mid-to-high fours.” From Washington to London and Sydney, central banks are set to deliver their first readings on the economic toll of the Iran conflict after over two weeks of hostilities. The Reserve Bank of Australia will announce its decision on interest rates on Tuesday, and is expected to fully reverse last year’s short and shallow easing cycle. Economists at Australia’s four major lenders forecast the central bank will raise rates by 25 basis points on Tuesday and follow that up with another increase in May to 4.35%. Australia’s current inflation rate is about 3.8%. Chalmers said the government was not “anticipating or expecting” a recession. Read More: Trump’s War Jolts Global Central Banks From Fed to ECB: Eco Week
Some trains were misaligned with the platform screen doors on the MTR’s Tsuen Wan line on the first day it implemented a new signalling system in Hong Kong, but such teething problems were rare in a launch that went largely according to plan. The MTR Corporation said on Sunday overall operations had been “smooth” following the departure of the first train at 6am, despite some “isolated” glitches. ...
Some trains were misaligned with the platform screen doors on the MTR’s Tsuen Wan line on the first day it implemented a new signalling system in Hong Kong, but such teething problems were rare in a launch that went largely according to plan. The MTR Corporation said on Sunday overall operations had been “smooth” following the departure of the first train at 6am, despite some “isolated” glitches. Some 200 staff were deployed to ensure that the line ran normally. “This morning we saw a few instances where the trains were not parked properly, requiring the drivers to manually move them a little to align with the platform screen doors,” said Cheris Lee Yuen-ling, deputy director of the MTR Corporation ’s operating and metro segment. Advertisement “But since we have deployed more colleagues to help out along the line, the impact on passengers should be minimal.” Monday would mark the first weekday after the new signalling system commenced operation. Lee advised passengers to check train service updates, while the MTR would continue to deploy additional staff at stations to handle any contingencies. Advertisement The Tsuen Wan line is a vital train route in Hong Kong, connecting Central on Hong Kong Island to Tsuen Wan in the New Territories via Kowloon. The new signalling system was installed to improve automation and enhance the reliability of the city’s ageing rail network.
Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh raised the firm's price target on AMD to $280 from $275 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The company announced an expanded partnership with Meta to ramp Instinct deployments, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Mizuho estimates 600 basis points of gross margin dilution from the warrants, but says AMD noted the deal is accretive to revenue and ea...
Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh raised the firm's price target on AMD to $280 from $275 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The company announced an expanded partnership with Meta to ramp Instinct deployments, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Mizuho estimates 600 basis points of gross margin dilution from the warrants, but says AMD noted the deal is accretive to revenue and earnings. It sees AMD benefiting from the "incremental cornerstone customer," with some offset with lower margins.
Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Closure of the Strait of Hormuz is raising the risk of disruptions to liquefied natural gas supplies critical for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s advanced chip production. Taiwan faces an estimated 11 day LNG supply gap if disruptions persist, which cou...
Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Closure of the Strait of Hormuz is raising the risk of disruptions to liquefied natural gas supplies critical for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s advanced chip production. Taiwan faces an estimated 11 day LNG supply gap if disruptions persist, which could affect power stability and production continuity for NYSE:TSM. Delayed oil refining is also feeding into expected shortages of sulfuric acid, a key material in chipmaking, creating a second pressure point for the company’s supply chain. For investors watching NYSE:TSM at a share price of $338.31, the new LNG and sulfuric acid risks land on top of an already closely watched operational set up. The stock has very large 3 year and 1 year gains, with a return of 290.6% over three years and 96.4% over the past year, and is up 5.9% year to date, so any threat to production inputs can quickly become part of the risk discussion. Short term pullbacks of 0.2% over the past week and 7.7% over the past month highlight how sensitive sentiment can be to fresh headlines. This development gives you another angle to consider when assessing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s risk profile, beyond headlines about end demand or capital spending. Questions around energy security, chemical supply resilience and contingency planning for events like a Strait of Hormuz closure may become more central to how the market frames operational risk for NYSE:TSM and for other chipmakers tied into similar supply chains. Stay updated on the most important news stories for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing by adding it to your watchlist or portfolio. Alternatively, explore our Community to discover new perspectives on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. NYSE:TSM Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Mar 2026 We've flagged 1 risk for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. See which could impact your investment. Th...
What makes a leader successful? Learn from people at the top. Join Bloomberg Television award-winning anchor and editor-at-large Francine Lacqua as she speaks with CEOs and other industry leaders to discover what drives them, their definition of success and how they are shaping their companies amid a fast-changing world. Publishes every other Monday. (Source: Bloomberg)
What makes a leader successful? Learn from people at the top. Join Bloomberg Television award-winning anchor and editor-at-large Francine Lacqua as she speaks with CEOs and other industry leaders to discover what drives them, their definition of success and how they are shaping their companies amid a fast-changing world. Publishes every other Monday. (Source: Bloomberg)
Industry indicators suggest AMD is gaining traction. It may take considerable time for AMD to challenge the current market leader's dominance, but its recent commercial agreements and financial results point to growth potential. AMD reported annual revenue showing substantial growth over the prior year, with earnings per share also increasing. The company's net margin, while lower than Nvidia's, r...
Industry indicators suggest AMD is gaining traction. It may take considerable time for AMD to challenge the current market leader's dominance, but its recent commercial agreements and financial results point to growth potential. AMD reported annual revenue showing substantial growth over the prior year, with earnings per share also increasing. The company's net margin, while lower than Nvidia's, remains solid, potentially influenced by pricing strategies. Microsoft and Oracle have also announced intentions to purchase hardware from AMD. These developments are expected to help AMD increase its market presence, though companies are likely to continue sourcing from multiple suppliers. Recently, AMD signed an agreement with OpenAI to supply hundreds of thousands of chips, with an option for OpenAI to acquire a stake in AMD. This agreement is projected to generate significant revenue for AMD. In February, AMD also reached a deal to supply Meta Platforms with a quantity of its Instinct GPUs. Advanced Micro Devices currently holds a 4% share of the data center GPU market, which is double the share of the next-largest competitor. This places AMD in a secondary position behind Nvidia. Companies including OpenAI and Anthropic require these products, contributing to Nvidia's status as the world's most valuable company by market capitalization. However, competitors exist, such as Alphabet and Advanced Micro Devices . According to a report from Yahoo Finance, Nvidia holds an estimated 92% share of the data center computing hardware market. This position makes major artificial intelligence model developers heavily reliant on Nvidia's graphics processing units . This report provides a comprehensive view of the global memories industry, tracking demand, supply, and trade flows across the worldwide value chain. It explains how demand across key channels and end-use segments shapes consumption patterns, while also mapping the role of input availability, production efficiency, and reg...
The day after Lord Rothermere was gazumped in his pursuit of the Telegraph by Axel Springer’s £575m knockout offer, the Daily Mail owner was pictured beaming at Rupert Murdoch’s 95th birthday party in New York. As guests at the star-studded black tie celebration at The Grill in Manhattan listened to Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman sing numbers such as Fly Me to the Moon, the 58-year-old media mogul m...
The day after Lord Rothermere was gazumped in his pursuit of the Telegraph by Axel Springer’s £575m knockout offer, the Daily Mail owner was pictured beaming at Rupert Murdoch’s 95th birthday party in New York. As guests at the star-studded black tie celebration at The Grill in Manhattan listened to Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman sing numbers such as Fly Me to the Moon, the 58-year-old media mogul may have been wondering how his almost three-decade dream to unite the titles within one right-leaning stable had fallen at the final hurdle. Rothermere, who took over running the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) group in 1998 at the age of 30 after the death of his father, first looked at acquiring the Telegraph in 2004, when the Barclay family prevailed with a then eye-watering £665m takeover. And by Friday 6 March, after three prospective buyers had been thwarted – Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI which was forced to resell, a consortium led by New York Sun owner Dovid Efune and another led by Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital – Rothermere’s lawyers and financiers had been poised to sign the final papers to push his £500m deal to fruition, bar a lengthy regulatory process. Instead, Germany’s Axel Springer swooped in at the last minute to complete its own equally long pursuit of a British crown jewel to bolster its transatlantic media empire, having also lost out to the Barclays in 2004 and to Nikkei in a battle for the Financial Times a decade later. The ink may barely have dried on the deal, but the chief executive of the new owner has already paid multiple visits to the Telegraph’s London office espousing his mission to make it the “leading centre-right media outlet in the English-speaking world”. At 6ft 7in, Mathias Döpfner cut an imposing figure in the newsroom as he visited management and staff, including editor Chris Evans, keen to allay any fears. The 63-year-old has promised editorial independence, although this has not stemmed speculation that he may be considerin...
Nazar Daletskyi was declared dead in May 2023. The DNA match left no room for doubt, officials told his mother, Nataliia. A Ukrainian soldier who volunteered for the front in the early weeks of the war, Nazar had become one more casualty of Russia’s invasion. Nazar’s remains were laid to rest in the cemetery of his home village. In the months after the funeral, Nataliia visited the grave at least ...
Nazar Daletskyi was declared dead in May 2023. The DNA match left no room for doubt, officials told his mother, Nataliia. A Ukrainian soldier who volunteered for the front in the early weeks of the war, Nazar had become one more casualty of Russia’s invasion. Nazar’s remains were laid to rest in the cemetery of his home village. In the months after the funeral, Nataliia visited the grave at least once a week, at first to cry and later to stand in quiet contemplation, remembering her only son. A few weeks ago, almost three years after the funeral, Nazar was freed from a Russian jail as part of a prisoner exchange. Soon after stepping off the bus and into Ukrainian territory, he was handed a mobile phone. 1:34 Nataliia Daletska speaks to her son Nazar for the first time since captivity – video The moment Nataliia heard her son’s voice again was captured by a village official, in a grainy mobile-phone video of raw emotional power. “My God, how long I’ve waited for you, my precious child,” she said, wailing with a mix of shock and joy. “Do you have arms, legs; is everything in place?” The video went viral in Ukraine, the unexpected happy ending touching a nerve in a country starved of good news. But the positive outcome came after a traumatic journey for both mother and son. A month after that phone call, Nataliia welcomed the Guardian to her neat cottage in the village of Velykyi Doroshiv, close to the western city of Lviv. The walls were decorated with brightly coloured religious paintings; in the living room, a large headshot of Nazar, printed after the funeral, hung in pride of place. Over cups of cardamon-infused coffee, she recounted the story from the beginning. View image in fullscreen A photograph of Nazar Daletskyi hanging on his mother’s wall Born in 1979, she said, Nazar was a sweet boy who liked cuddles. But the “1990s were hard”, and he left school without qualifications. He married and had a daughter, but the relationship did not last and he returned to l...
Britain should have a completely independent nuclear deterrent as it can no longer rely on the US, Ed Davey is expected to say on Sunday. In a speech at the Liberal Democrats spring conference, the party leader will argue that the UK should manufacture and maintain its nuclear weapons in Britain, a move that Davey acknowledges will cost billions. Davey’s speech will come amid his claims that the U...
Britain should have a completely independent nuclear deterrent as it can no longer rely on the US, Ed Davey is expected to say on Sunday. In a speech at the Liberal Democrats spring conference, the party leader will argue that the UK should manufacture and maintain its nuclear weapons in Britain, a move that Davey acknowledges will cost billions. Davey’s speech will come amid his claims that the US president, Donald Trump, has made his support for European security “conditional” on his personal whims. “While Trump is in charge, we certainly cannot rely on America as a dependable ally in the way we used to,” Davey will say. “And we can no longer bet our nation’s security on the hope that the US won’t produce new versions of Trump in the future. “So the real question is not whether we should build a sovereign British nuclear deterrent. The question is what happens if we don’t.” In theory, a British prime minister could choose to launch nuclear missiles without input from allies, including the US. However, the UK’s nuclear programme, Trident, based at Faslane, near Glasgow, on the River Clyde, is heavily dependent on US input. The weapons are manufactured in the US and have to be returned there regularly for maintenance. View image in fullscreen Ed Davey answering questions during the Liberal Democrats spring conference in York on Saturday. Photograph: James Manning/PA Davey’s speech is likely to be viewed as the latest instalment of what has been dubbed Operation Epsom Fury – a play on Trump’s Iranian mission and an attempt to attract voters disillusioned by Britain’s relationship with the president ahead of May’s local elections. “If the answer to ‘Is our nuclear deterrent working?’ depends on what Donald Trump had for breakfast, then the answer is, ‘No, it’s not’. And our deterrent is not truly independent,” Davey is expected to tell delegates in York. “This should be keeping British defence planners awake at night. Yet it’s not being asked loudly enough in our publ...
Since the Iran war began late last month, it has threatened shipping across the Middle East’s two most important maritime chokepoints – the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb – through which much of Asia’s energy imports and manufactured exports flow. For Gulf states and their major trading partners in Asia, the conflict is forcing a hard question: what, if anything, can protect supply chains ...
Since the Iran war began late last month, it has threatened shipping across the Middle East’s two most important maritime chokepoints – the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb – through which much of Asia’s energy imports and manufactured exports flow. For Gulf states and their major trading partners in Asia, the conflict is forcing a hard question: what, if anything, can protect supply chains if US security guarantees can no longer be taken for granted? Analysts say the usual answers – stockpiles, alternative transport corridors or new security arrangements – offer only limited protection against the kind of disruption now unfolding, which could persist even after the war ends. Advertisement The vulnerability is not new. Since the “tanker war” turned the Persian Gulf into a battlefield during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, it has been clear to governments in the Gulf and Asia that shared supply chains are exposed to disruption at the Strait of Hormuz, which links the Gulf to the Indian Ocean, and the Bab el-Mandeb, which connects the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. Tankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters Over the next four decades, as two-way trade boomed and economic interdependence deepened, repeated conflicts in the Middle East reinforced the need for Gulf states and Asian economies to work together to reduce that risk. Advertisement Little, however, was done. Instead, the prevailing assumption was that the US, through its vast network of military bases across the region, would prevent a belligerent nation such as Iran from imposing a stranglehold on trade passing through Hormuz.
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years. These death announcements are mostly based on two...
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years. These death announcements are mostly based on two dubious assumptions. One is that we’re at the end of the story, the point at which a verdict can be rendered and a moral extracted. In this version, 60 years on from the great 1960s surge of feminism, the process should be over, and if feminism has not won, surely it has lost. In reality, it’s naively defeatist to assume millennia of patriarchy entrenched in law, culture, social arrangements and economics could be or should have been fully disassembled in one lifetime. The other assumption is that one event can be a weathervane, a measuring stick, for the failure of feminism. Three popular recent candidates are the overturning of Roe v Wade in June 2022, #MeToo, and the Epstein files. Let’s first remember that the US is not the whole world. There have, for example, been countless obituary writers proclaiming that #MeToo is over or failed, and I’m not sure what that is based on – the assumption that all sexual abuse should have ended and, if not, feminism of the #MeToo subcategory did not succeed? Is any other human rights movement measured by such criteria? Did anyone think the civil rights movement should be judged by whether it terminated all racism for ever? The perfect is the enemy of the good, and it’s often both an impossible standard and a cudgel used to bash in what good has been achieved. Continue reading...