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Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal with his Oscar on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Academy Awards

Academy apologises for not backing Palestinian Oscar winner, ‘condemns violence’

The apology came after over 600 members criticised the academy’s response to Hamdan Ballal’s claim that he was attacked by Israelis.

Climate change

Opinion | Asia can’t afford to wait for the US to wake up to its climate duty

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Myanmar

Trump pledges to help quake-ravaged Myanmar, says disaster ‘a real bad one’

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X (formerly Twitter)

Elon Musk sells X social media platform to his own xAI for US$33 billion

The tech billionaire plans to combine the ‘data, models, compute, distribution and talent’ from the app and start-up.

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk wears a ‘Trump Was Right About Everything!’ hat while attending a cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Fame and celebrity

Meet Kimberly Woodruff, married to rapper Ice Cube for 32 years

Woodruff started dating the Boyz n the Hood star in 1989 and put a ring on him in 1992; of their 4 children, 2 shun the spotlight, but the others are making their way in the entertainment industry.

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Opinion | Trump’s Maga ambition may be more audacious than we think

Outrageous? Yes. But a United States of all Americas and including Greenland would be the first truly planetary North-South superpower.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Molly Miller, the coach who took the Grand Canyon Antelopes to victory

After catching the basketball bug at the tender age of 8, Miller went on to a successful high-school and college athletic career; she now replaces Natasha Adair as head coach of the ASU Sun Devils.

Meet Molly Miller, the coach who led the Grand Canyon Antelopes to victory. Photo: @marchmadnesswbb/Instagram
Robert F. Kennedy

Utah bans fluoride in drinking water, becoming first US state to do so

The move is opposed by dentists and health organisations, who warn it will lead to medical problems.

Taiwan

Bill to increase travel and trade with Taiwan introduced in US House

‘Strengthening economic engagement is a win-win for our Taiwanese friends and for American jobs and national security,’ a sponsor says.

Icons and Influencers

Who is Bernie Sanders’ backer and wife of 37 years, Jane O’Meara Sanders?

Despite Sanders’ recent ‘anti-oligarchy’ rallies with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he says he has no plans to run for president because he’s ‘tired’ – but who is his political adviser wife, Jane?

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Bernie Sanders with wife Jane O’Meara Sanders at the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Photo: Getty Images
China economy

Editorial | China’s austerity is very different to that in US

Beijing is targeting wasteful spending on projects and misuse of public money by officials, not savings to finance tax cuts.

President Xi Jinping, seen on Friday at a meeting of global business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, spearheaded an austerity drive aimed at cutting out government spending on lavish gatherings, among other such waste. Photo: Kyodo
Greenland

Vance slams Denmark for not keeping Greenland safe from China and Russia

As his vice-president visited a base in the territory, Trump told reporters the US needed Greenland to ensure ‘peace of the entire world’.

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Trump and Canada’s PM Carney ease tensions with ‘productive’ call

The US president says the two leaders have agreed to meet soon after Canada’s general election in April.

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Greenland forms new government hours before US VP Vance’s visit

The new majority government will be headed by pro-business Democrats leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen.

Leader of the Democrats (Demokraatit) party and Greenland’s Prime Minister-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen at a ceremony to sign a coalition agreement, in Nuuk on Friday. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

My Take | How Western classics are now weaponised against the West

Since the Tiananmen crackdown, a generation of mainland public intellectuals and scholars have turned classical study on its head.

Students gather outside the library building in Tsinghua University in Beijing. Photo: Shutterstock
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Outside In | Outraged by Trump, Canada scrambles to define what makes a nation

Threatened with annexation, Canadians reluctant to be absorbed nevertheless find it hard to say what distinguishes them from Americans.

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Banking & finance

Venture-capital club expands to Hong Kong, plans US$250m fund

London Technology Club opens in the city with a focus on fast-scaling companies in AI, fintech.

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China economy

Opinion | Trump’s executive orders will be no match for markets in grip of fear

Investors’ behaviour promises to thwart Trump’s economic agenda, just as they have forced past administrations to scramble for rescues.

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US-China relations

US Air Force nominee wants total drones approach to counter mainland China

Troy Meink tells confirmation hearing that the Pentagon needs to shorten acquisition timelines or PLA will continue to close the gap.

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Ukraine war

US sidelines Europe, demands ‘right of first offer’ on Ukraine investments

Kyiv’s EU membership bid could be undermined if the US has control over investment decisions covering large areas of Ukraine’s economy.

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US-China relations

Will Trump’s retreat spur a grand bargain with China?

The US president seems to want to move closer to Beijing, Carlos Gutierrez tells the Boao Forum.

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Carlos Gutierrez, former US secretary of commerce, speaks during the panel discussion at the Boao Forum for Asia in southern China’s Hainan province. Photo: Xinhua
The Philippines

US bolsters Philippines defence with ‘game-changer’ missiles to deter China threat

During a visit to the Philippines, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth stressed alliance, deterring Beijing’s ‘aggression’ in the South China Sea.

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr (left) with US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in Manila on Friday. Photo: AFP
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Trump tells Vance to wipe out ‘divisive ideology’ from Smithsonian museums

The US president’s executive order singled out the National Museum of African-American History and Culture as problematic.

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The Philippines

Trump’s immigration crackdown hits Filipino green card holder, sparking fears

The detention of a Filipino who has lived in the US for 50 years shows the huge shift in immigration enforcement under Trump, observers say.

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Israel-Gaza war

Rubio says he stripped visas from 300 ‘lunatics’ over university Gaza protests

The Trump administration has moved aggressively against foreign students over on-campus demonstrations, leading to some high-profile arrests.

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Activists hold a demonstration in New York on March 20 against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

Trump, some Republicans differ on TikTok ahead of sell-or-ban deadline

‘If ByteDance stays involved in any way, the deal is illegal – plain and simple,’ said one senior Republican lawmaker.

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A woman poses with her smartphone displaying the @realdonaldtrump TikTok page, in Washington in January 2025. Photo: Reuters
Canada

Era of close ties with US ‘over’, Canada PM says, as Trump asks to talk

Mark Carney says he expects to speak to the US president in ‘a day or two’, and that Canada will retaliate against planned US car tariffs.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Bobby Flay’s new girlfriend, Brooke Williamson – a fellow Food Network chef

Brooke Williamson won Top Chef in 2014 and went on to appear in Bobby Flay’s show Bobby’s Triple Threat – now she’s dating him.

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