Hong Kong authorities are considering issuing 10,000 ride-hailing permits under a new regulatory framework for on-demand transport services , according to local media. The Uber app. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ) reported...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Felice Noelle Rodriguez KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 12 2026 (IPS) Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production,...
A Hong Kong couple who took their children storm-chasing during Super Typhoon Ragasa last year have been acquitted of child neglect, with the court issuing them a good behaviour order for three years. A marine police vessel parked near the...
The Direct Comparison of Debt to GDP This article is longer than my usual contribution, but the issue is of critical importance. Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping is taking place at a time of unprecedented economic turmoil caused by...
A woman who served as mayor of a California city has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, the Department of Justice said Monday. Eileen Wang, 58, the mayor of Arcadia, a city just north of...
Trump’s world is not rules-based globalization or full Cold War fragmentation — it’s perpetual leverage economics. This week’s summit in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will showcase that reality more clearly than any major diplomatic encounter since Trump...
The US-Israel war on Iran has acted not as a mere diversion but as a brutal accelerator of history, fundamentally rupturing the Middle East’s security architecture and accelerating the very realignment it sought to prevent. In the war’s destructive wake...
President Donald Trump warned the ceasefire in the Middle East war was on "life support" Monday after rejecting the latest counteroffer from Iran, which said its military stood ready to respond to any act of aggression. The...
The United Arab Emirates carried out attacks on Iran early last month, sources told the Wall Street Journal , revealing previously unknown participation in the war by the Gulf country. In an article Monday, the American...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Dubai Skyline, United Arab Emirates. Wikimedia Commons The next great Middle Eastern rivalry is not only between Iran and the Arab Gulf states. It is unfolding inside the Gulf itself with...
French president reaches out to new allies after setbacks in relations with his country’s former colonies in west Africa A French-African summit held every few years since 1973 is taking place in a non-francophone country for the first time on Tuesday...
One of the changes I have noticed since our last (shall we say “popular?”) District Council was replaced by a more salubrious patriots-only gathering is that we now get decorations on Sha Tin lampposts. Sha Tin. File Photo: King Ho/Pexels....
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and...
Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally...
Meta has removed a series of scam ads impersonating the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) following HKFP’s enquiries. Since-removed scam ads impersonating INTERPOL appeared on Meta platforms in recent weeks. Photo: HKFP screenshot. The ads, targeting Hongkongers, appeared for weeks...
Calls mounted late Monday for Britain's embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer to quit, despite his pledges to prove his doubters wrong after his ruling Labour party was crushed in local and regional elections . More than 70 of...
The European Commission told AFP Monday it plans to invite Taliban officials to Brussels in the near future for talks on returning migrants to Afghanistan . According to sources close to the matter, a letter is...
- - - - One of the year’s best feel-good news stories materialized late last month when Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin was forced to release more than 1,500 beagles who had been bred by the corporation to...
The United States on Monday issued sanctions against 12 individuals and entities that it said facilitated the sale and shipment of Iranian oil to China , days ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing. In a...
Syria said two soldiers were killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in the country's northeast on Monday, while a military source told AFP investigations were underway to identify the perpetrators. In recent months, Syria's new Islamist government...
A New York Times investigation has found that Israel ran a coordinated, government-backed campaign to transform Eurovision into a soft-power tool, spending more than $1 million promoting its contestants while lobbying to remain in the contest...
The United States has sanctioned a new group of mainland China- and Hong Kong-linked companies and individuals accused of helping Iran secure drone materials and missile-related components, raising fresh tensions days before US President Donald Trump’s state visit to China....
The Los Angeles Press Club has named Truthdig a finalist in 18 categories for the Southern California Journalism Awards , with nominations spanning a broad range of reporting, criticism, visual storytelling and more. We are honored by the recognition and...
Two out of three Americans think President Donald Trump has not clearly explained why the country has gone to war with Iran , according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday that also showed his approval rating...
The elections in the UK show beyond any doubt that the Labour party has completely lost the working class. John Westmoreland is a history teacher and UCU rep. He is an active member of the People’s Assembly and writes regularly for...
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he plans to suspend a federal gasoline tax as consumers deal with surging energy prices in the wake of the Iran war . Responding to a reporter's question at the...
Armed vessels linked to the Libyan coast guard opened fire Monday on a humanitarian rescue ship shortly after it saved about 90 migrants from an overcrowded wooden boat in the Mediterranean, the group operating the vessel...
There is nothing Israel could do which would lead Germany to question its support for Zionism. Jurgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a temporary Professor for the Structure of modern societies at...
The UN has built a vast bureaucracy in Geneva based on lavish salaries which are a long way from the reality of the lives of those they are meant to serve. In that context, the US cutting its funding to...
In a conversation with Patrik Baab, Peter Hanseler analyzes why the war in Iran is not a regional crisis, but rather part of a larger conflict that is brewing. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitica.com Peter Hanseler with Patrik Baab...
Kokuho is a colourful, lengthy epic, spanning five decades and running almost three hours, set in the world of kabuki – Japan’s most popular traditional performing art. It has been a huge hit in Japan, becoming the country’s highest-grossing live-action...
While the disastrous local election results may be the final blow that ends Keir Starmer’s premiership, his worst wound has been the continuing fallout from his disastrous decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the...
At his grandmother’s opulent riverside estate, Darius finds himself judged not for who he is, but for whose son he is. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4...
Islam Times - In today’s conditions in Iran, speaking of a “wartime government” or at least a “government in a state of war” is a strategic necessity. Countries that assume the end of direct military confrontation means the end of...
By CIVICUS May 11 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses Gen Z-led protests in the Philippines with Charles Zander, a 17-year-old climate justice activist from Bohol and youth campaigner for Greenpeace Philippines. Charles Zander The Philippines is particularly exposed to climate change, hit by...
When American and Chinese presidents meet, it is usually the upstart China that is desperate to be treated as an equal by the world’s pre-eminent superpower. Yet on May 14 when Donald Trump flies to Beijing for the first of four...
The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...
Human rights groups have warned that a new Israeli bill proposing public trials and possible death sentences for Palestinians accused of involvement in the 7 October 2023 attack could violate international law and turn court proceedings into "show...
Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved a controversial bill that will establish a military tribunal for Palestinians accused of participating in the 7 October attack . Human rights groups have warned that public trials and possible death sentences could violate international...
Agentic AI is often presented as a revolutionary shift in semiconductor manufacturing, driven by large language models and generative AI. However, this framing overlooks an important reality: today’s advances are built on decades of prior work. As Jonathan Holt of...
Despite the newfound discovery of sexual harassment and the taxpayer-funded settlements, the United States Congress has failed to implement any lasting policy reforms to protect staff from sexual misconduct. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, May 11 2026 (IPS) After...
The European Union approved a new wave of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organisations linked to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers on Monday. EU...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has accused the Israeli prison service of repressing Palestinian female detainees in Damon jail 10 times during March and April. “Israel holds 88 female prisoners in Damon jail, along with several others in interrogation and...
Britain on Monday slapped sanctions on a dozen Iran -linked individuals and entities accused of involvement in "hostile activities" by Tehran targeting the UK or other countries. Updating its official sanctions list, the Foreign Office in London imposed the...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 7 May 2026. The founder of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Prof. Kwame Karikari, has renewed calls for the imperative of a broadcasting law in Ghana, warning that the...
An Israeli charity that offered to help Brits move to the West Bank has been photographed at an event in London, despite calls for it to be sanctioned. Shivat Zion had a stall at an ‘Aliyah Fair’, held in...
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. The war on Iran waged by the US and Israel has caused multidimensional and likely irreversible tectonic shifts. At the global level, the negative effects of the war extend...
It’s been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington — or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women’s History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security...
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