The Year of the Horse is set to bring volatility for the investments of Hong Kong’s 4.8 million Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) members, following a record-breaking Year of the Snake that ended on Monday, according to analysts. The next zodiac year, which begins on Tuesday, is the seventh in the Chinese lunar calendar’s 12-year cycle, each represented by an animal. The Year of the Snake delivered e...
The Year of the Horse is set to bring volatility for the investments of Hong Kong’s 4.8 million Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) members, following a record-breaking Year of the Snake that ended on Monday, according to analysts. The next zodiac year, which begins on Tuesday, is the seventh in the Chinese lunar calendar’s 12-year cycle, each represented by an animal. The Year of the Snake delivered estimated earnings of HK$251.6 billion (US$32 billion), the highest on record since the MPF was...
After Years Of Border Crisis, Small Texas Town 'Back To Mayberry' Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), BRACKETTVILLE, Texas— The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town. Samira Bouaou; Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times The constant high-speed chases, ...
After Years Of Border Crisis, Small Texas Town 'Back To Mayberry' Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), BRACKETTVILLE, Texas— The chaos caused by millions of illegal immigrants flooding across the southwest border under the Biden administration left scars on this border town. Samira Bouaou; Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times The constant high-speed chases, buzzing helicopters, screaming emergency sirens, hurried school lockdowns, torn barbed-wire fences, and decomposing bodies on ranches and along the Rio Grande all took their toll on Texas towns near the Mexican border. The border crisis drained resources and changed the lifestyle of Brackettville, a little town with two traffic light intersections in Kinney County. Residents of the county and beyond said the madness stopped almost overnight after President Donald Trump took office. Now they say the chaos of illegal immigration has just moved into the country’s interior to places that include Minnesota. Illegal border crossings plummeted to record lows after Trump took office. In fiscal year 2025, Customs and Border Protection reported 443,000 encounters at the southwest border with Mexico. In 2024, that number stood at a little less than 2.5 million. ‘Back to Mayberry’ Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe estimated that 30,000 to 40,000 people per year moved through the county in 2022 and 2023. Images of illegal immigrants were caught on game cameras meant to give ranchers photos of deer and wildlife on their property, which allowed Coe to estimate the traffic. “ If we hadn’t stepped up when we did in the way we did—I think it would totally destroy the county, had the wave of illegal immigrants continued, ” he told The Epoch Times. Brackettville sits north of the Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Route 57 past Eagle Pass and west of the Uvalde checkpoint, making it an ideal location for gotaways, or illegal immigrants who evade capture. “ It’s really a geographical thing wi...
Gus went missing on 27 September from Oak Park Station, where South Australia police have begun a two-day search for clues Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Police have returned to the home of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont to search for new evidence after identifying a suspect in his disappearance . Gus (short for...
Gus went missing on 27 September from Oak Park Station, where South Australia police have begun a two-day search for clues Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Police have returned to the home of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont to search for new evidence after identifying a suspect in his disappearance . Gus (short for August) went missing on 27 September 2025 from his family’s remote sheep station, sparking one of the biggest and most intense searches in South Australia’s history. Continue reading...
Warner Bros Discovery Inc. is considering reopening sale talks with Paramount Skydance Corp. after receiving its amended offer, people with knowledge of the matter said. Bloomberg's Tony Czuczka reports on the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
Warner Bros Discovery Inc. is considering reopening sale talks with Paramount Skydance Corp. after receiving its amended offer, people with knowledge of the matter said. Bloomberg's Tony Czuczka reports on the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)
Hong Kong stocks fell on Monday, led by major tech heavyweights, as investors trimmed positions and locked in profits while trading turned muted ahead of the Lunar New Year break. The Hang Seng Index slid 0.3 per cent to 26,501.20 at the open. The Hang Seng Tech Index dropped 0.2 per cent. E-commerce major Alibaba Group Holding slumped 1.8 per cent to HK$152.60, and peer JD.com dropped 0.7 per cen...
Hong Kong stocks fell on Monday, led by major tech heavyweights, as investors trimmed positions and locked in profits while trading turned muted ahead of the Lunar New Year break. The Hang Seng Index slid 0.3 per cent to 26,501.20 at the open. The Hang Seng Tech Index dropped 0.2 per cent. E-commerce major Alibaba Group Holding slumped 1.8 per cent to HK$152.60, and peer JD.com dropped 0.7 per cent to HK$105.50. Search-engine operator Baidu fell 1.5 per cent to HK$133.80, and food-delivery...
Facilities damaged at Taman port while power and water disrupted in Odesa as new round of trilateral talks to begin on Tuesday. What we know on day 1,454 A Ukrainian drone strike ignited fires at one of Russia’s Black Sea ports, officials said on Sunday, ahead of fresh talks aimed at ending the war . Two people were wounded in the attack on the port of Taman in the Krasnodar region, which damaged ...
Facilities damaged at Taman port while power and water disrupted in Odesa as new round of trilateral talks to begin on Tuesday. What we know on day 1,454 A Ukrainian drone strike ignited fires at one of Russia’s Black Sea ports, officials said on Sunday, ahead of fresh talks aimed at ending the war . Two people were wounded in the attack on the port of Taman in the Krasnodar region, which damaged an oil storage tank, warehouse and terminals, according to regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev. Falling debris from Russian drones, meanwhile, damaged civilian and transport infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region, officials said, disrupting power and water supplies. The attacks came ahead of another round of US-brokered talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. Ukraine has agreed with European allies on “specific packages” of new energy and military support for Kyiv by 24 February, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. He had said earlier after a meeting of the so-called Berlin Format of about a dozen European leaders in Munich that he had hoped for new support, including air-defence missiles. “I am grateful to our partners for their readiness to help, and we count on all deliveries arriving promptly,” Zelenskyy said, adding that Russia had launched about 1,300 attack drones, 1,200 guided aerial bombs and dozens of ballistic missiles at Ukraine over the past week alone. European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Russia was hoping to win diplomatically what it had failed to achieve on the battlefield, and was banking on the US to deliver concessions at the negotiating table. But Kallas told the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Sunday that key Russian demands – including the lifting of sanctions and unfreezing of assets – were decisions for Europe. “If we want a sustainable peace then we need concessions also from t...