Hong Kong hasn’t posted back-to-back annual contractions in data going back to at least 1962. The biggest contraction in GDP over that period was a 5.9% decline in 1998.
Recommendation puts Pfizer vaccine on track for approval, the first in Hong Kong, which likely means vulnerable groups like healthcare workers & the elderly will receive this shot.
Arresting pro-democracy politicians erases all opposition, effectively turning Hong Kong’s legislature into a rubber stamp akin to China’s National People’s Congress.
China’s unprecedented arrests of opposition figures illustrates depth of Biden’s challenge. By the time he is president, there may not be much democracy left to save in Hong Kong.
The mass arrests of largely moderate pro-democracy campaigners and opposition leaders accelerate an ongoing political crackdown in the Asian financial hub.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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