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The route, restored in June last year, will be ‘paused’ amid rising costs due to need to avoid Russian airspace
British Airways is to axe its direct flights between London Heathrow and Beijing.
The UK national carrier announced that the service to the Chinese capital would end on 26 October.

The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences ...

Tsung Dao Lee, who became the second youngest person to win a Nobel Prize in 1957 for overturning the law of conservation of parity, died on Sunday at 97 in San Francisco. Lee, a Columbia University professor emeritus,

Just one percent of broadcasters are Asian American men; one in four TV stations in top 20 markets have no Asian American women on air

Never before in our nation’s history have South Asian-American women played such prominent roles in presidential politics. To me, that's powerful.

On an epic trip, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken tried to reassure Asian leaders about American commitments. But China remains the enduring backyard behemoth.

Donald Trump could appoint the first Asian American or Pacific Islander to serve on the US Supreme Court, though that’s unlikely to be the motivating factor should he make the historic selection.

Beijing says ‘no strings attached’ to the complex unveiled last month amid wider concerns over loans the Pacific country owes to China
Perched atop Port Vila, Vanuatu’s seaside capital, sits a gleaming red and white building, gifted to the Pacific country by China last month. The new presidential palace has a coveted position in town, high on a hill and overlooking the prime minister’s office, a building which was similarly renovated thanks to a hefty Chinese donation almost a decade ago.
The multimillion dollar complex is the latest in a long line of gifts and infrastructure projects offered to Vanuatu by Beijing, transforming several towns and villages in the small island nation of just over 300,000 people. They include a suite of new government ministry buildings, the country’s parliament house, road construction projects on several islands, the rebuilding of a sports stadium, a new wharf, and the donation of a massive convention centre that often sits empty in the middle of town.

A young skater’s emergence signals a pivot in the way an Olympic power defines success. But its handling of the table tennis competition suggests old expectations may persist, too.

A young skater’s emergence signals a pivot in the way an Olympic power defines success. But its handling of the table tennis competition suggests old expectations may persist, too.