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U.S. President Donald Trump indicated late Thursday that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has reached out about a trade deal, boosting hopes that the tensions between Washington and Beijing could ...

Demand for a small Sydney patisserie’s chocolate mousse creation leapt from 100 a week to 150 a day after a vlogger struck up a conversation on a train
When Paul Adam sees a long queue forming in front of his patisserie in the northern suburbs of Sydney, “That’s when I know I’m going to start working hard,” he says. In the weeks since one of his cakes went viral across several Chinese social media platforms, that has been nearly every day.
The gluten-free hazelnut, meringue and chocolate mousse cake, with lorikeets stencilled in icing sugar on top, is, by Adam’s estimation, “only a cake” but it seems to mean much more to the customers queuing for it, some of whom have travelled from interstate, or overseas.

The U.S. trade representative plans to charge ships for each voyage, not for each U.S. port call.

Ambitious economies like Vietnam and Indonesia are stuck between China and the US as the trade war escalates.

The US president separately said he is confident of making "a very good deal" with China.

Satellite group linked to People’s Liberation Army has supplied images to Iran-backed group in Yemen, say officials ...

The shift to cleaner power needs resources from China. An export ban just cut off some supplies.

Beijing is using a mix of carrots and sticks to try to prevent other countries from siding with the United States in isolating China.

The U.S. trade representative plans to charge ships for each voyage, not for each U.S. port call.

The U.S. is moving forward with a plan to impose fees on Chinese ships calling at American ports. The fees will be charged for each U.S. voyage rather than each call at an American port, the U.S.

Orforglipron also reduced blood sugar levels in participants with type 2 diabetes
A significant trial of a daily weight-loss pill has found that it helped people to shed the pounds and reduce their blood sugar levels, making it a contender to join the new wave of drugs that combat obesity and diabetes.
People who took a 36mg pill of orforglipron lost an average of 7.3kg (16lbs) over nine months, according to results from a phase 3 clinical trial reported by the drug’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly, on Thursday.

Growth in international hotels coincides with government effort to push region as a tourism destination
Almost 200 international hotels are operating or planning to open in Xinjiang, despite calls from human rights groups for global corporations not to help “sanitise” the Chinese government’s human rights abuses in the region, a report has said.
The report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) identified 115 operational hotels which the organisation said “benefit from a presence in the Uyghur region”. At least another 74 were in various stages of construction or planning, the report said. The UHRP said some of the hotels also had exposure or links of concern to forced labour and labour transfer programmes.