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Are the latest Communist Party promotions a sign of a new political trend in China?

Beijing promoted 10 officials to full membership of the Communist Party’s Central Committee at a major political gathering this week, where the normally routine process of filling vacancies took on new significance. The names of the officials who have filled the vacant slots were included in a communique released at the end of the fifth plenum of the party’s 20th Central Committee on Thursday. The event, which focused on party discipline and the fight against corruption, confirmed that 24 full...

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Cops intercept P17.65-M illegal cigarettes in Zamboanga City

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur  – Police operations across the Zamboanga Peninsula netted some P17.65 million worth of suspected smuggled cigarettes in separate interdictions Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Police Regional Office 9 (PRO-9) reported. Police Lt. Col. Shellamie Chang, chief of the PRO 9 Regional Public Information Office, said the anti-smuggling drive yielded a total

Newborn found abandoned in Bohol town

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — A newborn baby boy was found early Friday morning, Oct. 30, abandoned inside a residential property in Panglao, Bohol, just four days after another was discovered near a school. The newborn was found at around 3 a.m. on top of a small table outside the house of 53-year-old Myrna Ayup in Purok

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New Everest film hopes to nudge US-China relations into a higher altitude

The film Everest: The Other Side, a collaborative US-China project that opened on Friday in 515 US cinemas and that will premiere at 700 IMAX theatres in China on November 6, starts with a majestic shot of the world’s tallest mountain. Then the music builds and more challenging weather rolls in, foreshadowing what is at stake. The film invokes a well-trod narrative for fans of the mountaineering genre: a mix of the grit and sacrifice driving world-class climbers, along with no small amount of...

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Indian Premier League great Krunal Pandya savouring Hong Kong anonymity, lauds Virat Kohli

As one of the Indian Premier League’s greatest, and most innovative and recognisable bowlers, Krunal Pandya is appreciating an unusual opportunity to “live a normal life” during his whistle-stop visit to Hong Kong for this weekend’s cricket sixes. “I went for a walk outside after we arrived and it was pretty good,” Pandya told the South China Morning Post. “It’s a different experience, but India is India. I know how it is.” In cricketing terms, that reality is a level of competitiveness that has...

‘I’m terrified’: AI comes for Southeast Asia’s graduate jobs

Nafeesa Azman has applied for hundreds of jobs over the past two months, yet the 24-year-old Malaysian marketing graduate is yet to find a permanent role that pays what she needs or uses the skills she spent years, and a good deal of money, developing. Natthanicha Intawong, a final-year media arts student in Bangkok, describes the terror many of her peers feel as they prepare to enter a jobs market that artificial intelligence is already beginning to scythe through. For Joshua Nai, a Singaporean...

Vietnam set to overtake Southeast Asia's largest economy in GDP per capita this year

Vietnam's GDP per capita is projected to reach US$5,259 this year, overtaking Indonesia's $5,153, according to the International Monetary Fund.