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A Thai restaurant in California, is back in operation after being wrongfully accused of abusing a dog to turn it into meat.

World Snooker and PDC World Darts owner Matchroom weighs up India and south-east Asia amid feared overreliance on China
The owner of the Masters snooker tournament is plotting an expansion trail across Asia after the pandemic exposed the company’s reliance on China, its chair has revealed.
Steve Dawson, the chief executive of World Snooker Ltd, told the Guardian it was considering staging tournaments in India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Thailand, after its business was held back by .

Corruption and the economic crisis have trumped any fears about a belligerent neighbour in close race for the presidency
Deep in the mountains of Hsinchu county in north Taiwan, a few dozen residents of Smangus are holding their daily morning meeting in a weatherboard hut, overlooking the towering peaks nearby.
The remote Indigenous village, home to about 200 Atayal people, is preparing for . They take it very seriously, running their own polling station since 2008, and discussing candidates with all the residents.

American Born Chinese has been canceled by Disney+ after one season, likely due to low viewership numbers. The show is unlikely to be picked up by another streaming platform due to its large scale and ...

Season 2 could have expanded on the mythological origins of the story and introduced other Chinese figures, but it will not happen. The Disney Plus ...

Angel Island,” an oratorio by Huang Ruo, brings to life the stark poetry of Chinese detained on the California island in the first part of the 20th century.

Alibaba, Tencent, Baudi, and ByteDance indicated that they would order fewer chips from Nvidia than planned this year.

Astronomers say launch of dozens of lunar probes could jeopardise research and valuable resources such as sea ice in craters
Science and business are heading for an astronomical clash – over the future exploration of the moon and the exploitation of its resources. The celestial skirmish threatens to break out over companies’ plans to launch dozens of probes to survey the lunar landscape over the next few years. An early pioneer – Peregrine mission one – is this week.
The aim of this extraterrestrial armada – largely funded through Nasa’s $2.6bn (CLPS) initiative – is to survey the moon so that minerals, water and other resources can be extracted to build permanent, habitable bases there. These would later provide a springboard for manned missions to Mars.

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Campaigners say testing is among methods used to surveil people in the tightly controlled region
The US biotech company Thermo Fisher has halted sales of its DNA identification kits in Tibet, nearly five years after it made a similar commitment about the sale of its products in the neighbouring western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
It decided to stop sales in Tibet after months of complaints from rights groups and investors that the technology may be used in a way that abuses human rights. The company said that the decision was made in the middle of 2023, but it was only revealed to investors late last month.

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has accused China of harassment and trying to affect public morale by repeatedly sending balloons over the self-governing island ...

The outcome of a closely fought race will have repercussions beyond the island – but another contest this year is more critical
Like so many voters around the world, Taiwan’s have put the economy at the top of their agenda. Yet when they on 13 January to elect a new president and legislature, those will sit alongside the existential question of Taiwan’s future.
The island has enjoyed de facto independence since the defeated Kuomintang (KMT) fled there at the end of its civil war with the Communist party. But China claims sovereignty over it and has never ruled out using force to bring it into the fold. It has intensified its rhetoric and its since the incumbent president, Tsai Ing-wen, of the Democratic Progressive party (DPP) won power in 2016. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sharpened concerns about Taiwan’s fate. In his new year address, Xi Jinping reiterated that “reunification of the motherland is a historical inevitability”.
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