The trial of five former NHL players accused of sexually assaulting a woman after a party for the Canadian national junior hockey team began Tuesday, more than six years after the alleged attack occurred. The case has sent shockwaves across Canadian hockey, raising questions about toxic culture in the nation’s beloved sport and bringing scrutiny on …
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The Volkswagen group on Tuesday unveiled a series of new vehicles and a driver assistance system built “in China for China”, which it hopes will help reverse its declining fortunes in the world’s largest car market.Though it is still the leading foreign group operating in the country, Volkswagen has seen its sales droop as local …
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The IMF said Tuesday it now believed China’s economy will only grow by four percent this year, well below Beijing’s official target as it fights a mounting trade war with the United States that threatens to hammer the global economy.China and the United States — the world’s two largest economies — are engaged in a …
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The first US official to visit Southeast Asia since Washington announced punitive tariffs on the region’s countries on Tuesday issued a robust defence of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy approach.Sean O’Neill, the United States’ senior bureau official for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, is in Cambodia this week, co-chairing the 37th ASEAN-US Dialogue.The two-day meeting …
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The United States on Monday announced its intention to impose tariffs of up to 3,521 percent on solar panels from Southeast Asia, a move aimed at countering alleged Chinese subsidies and dumping in the sector.The tariffs on companies from Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam will still need to be ratified at a meeting of the …
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The world’s biggest auto show opens Wednesday in Shanghai, with foreign carmakers raring to show they can compete against the ultra-competitive Chinese firms that dominate the sector’s new electric frontier.As the petrol engine’s primacy stutters, traditional industry expos like Paris and Detroit are scrambling to re-invent themselves — but in Shanghai the era of cleaner engines …
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An Indonesian soldier gives a thumbs up as he crosses a rice field on a combine harvester in remote Papua, where a government food security mega-project has raised fears of mass deforestation.Keen to end its reliance on rice imports, Indonesia wants to plant vast tracts of the crop, along with sugar cane for biofuel, in …
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Bullion hit another record Tuesday while the dollar steadied and equities mostly fell as Donald Trump’s latest salvo against Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell added fuel to fears about the central bank’s independence.With the US tariff blitz still causing ructions on global trading floors, investors are now dealing with the added worry that the US …
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The humble pinata has become one of the latest targets to take a whacking in US President Donald Trump’s trade war.Party store owner Patricia Loperena said she has supplied fewer parties this year than last, which means she is selling fewer of the colorful candy-filled papier mache favors at her southern California establishment.Another blow to …
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With his storm of tariffs on Chinese goods, US President Donald Trump has torched ties with Beijing and likely wrecked any hope of meeting his counterpart Xi Jinping in the near term, analysts say.Since taking office in January, Trump’s maelstrom of import duties against friend and foe alike has rattled diplomats and pushed global markets …
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