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3 killed including baby as high winds topple tree during Easter egg hunt in Germany
Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed on Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany during an Easter egg hunt, police said. Around 50 people from a nearby residential facility for new mo...
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Signal fault disrupts Hong Kong MTR’s Airport Express, Tung Chung line services
Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has extended the time needed for its in-town check-in service to 120 minutes from 90 minutes after a signal equipment malfunction disrupted travel on the Airport Express and Tung Chung lines T...
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Chinese firms trail US peers in AI adoption due to corporate culture: ex-OpenAI executive
Traditional corporate culture and hierarchies are slowing down artificial intelligence adoption in Chinese enterprises, leaving them trailing their US peers, even as China’s savvy consumers embrace AI agents at a breakne...
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Chinese man, 90, cycles across country after tragic losses of wife, son, daughter-in-law, grandson
After losing his entire family, a 90-year-old from central China took to the road on a decades-long cycling odyssey in search of solace. The sprightly Zhang Zhongyi, from Kaifeng in Henan province, remains sharp-witted,...
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Growing Pains meets the ‘kill line’: a new Chinese hot take on the American dream
When the American sitcom Growing Pains was first broadcast in China in the 1990s, it was the first window for many in the country into American middle-class life. In the series, a doctor father, a journalist mother and f...
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How changes in home rental laws in England will impact Hong Kong, mainland investors
A proposed cap on the ground rents paid by leasehold homeowners in England and Wales is seen as favouring foreign property investors, including those from Hong Kong and mainland China, but another measure tightening rule...
