3 d. ago Survivors of US strike on ‘drug vessel’ to be sent back to Ecuador, Colombia

The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday. The military rescued the pair after striking a submersible vessel on Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such attack since early September. “It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking...

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4 d. ago Top US and China envoys set trade talks after ‘constructive’ phone call

Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a phone call on Saturday morning and stated that trade negotiators from their countries would meet next week. “This evening, Vice-Premier He Lifeng and I engaged in frank and detailed discussions regarding trade between the United States and China,” Bessent wrote on social media on Friday evening in Washington. “We will meet in person next week to continue our discussions.” In a separate read-out, China described He’s...

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4 d. ago Top US and China trade envoys set trade talks after ‘constructive’ phone call

Top US and China trade envoys set trade talks after ‘constructive’ phone call  South China Morning Post

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4 d. ago Top US and China envoys set trade talks after ‘constructive’ video call

Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a video call on Saturday morning and stated that trade negotiators from their countries would meet next week. “This evening, Vice-Premier He Lifeng and I engaged in frank and detailed discussions regarding trade between the United States and China,” Bessent wrote on social media on Friday evening in Washington. “We will meet in person next week to continue our discussions.” In a separate read-out, China described He’s...

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4 d. ago Top US and China trade envoys set for talks after ‘constructive’ video call

China and the United States are set to hold fresh trade talks next week, following a video call between Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Saturday morning Beijing time. “Vice-Premier He Lifeng and I engaged in frank and detailed discussions regarding trade between the United States and China,” Bessent wrote on social media after their call. “We will meet in person next week to continue our discussions.” In its readout, China described He’s discussions with...

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5 d. ago US phones allies over rare earths, China’s food security: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. ‘This is China versus the world’: US calls allies over Beijing rare earth curbs US President Donald Trump’s administration vowed on Wednesday to work with its allies and other countries to get an upper hand in its trade talks with China, claiming Beijing’s recent rare earth control as a sign of being an “unreliable partner” that threatens global supply...

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6 d. ago China’s Honor teases ‘Robot Phone’, a new AI handset with gimbal

Honor, the Chinese smartphone maker spun off from Huawei Technologies, on Wednesday teased a concept artificial intelligence-enabled handset featuring a fold-out gimbal-attached camera, as the firm looks to differentiate itself from rival Android device makers in the global market. The “Robot Phone” was unveiled by Honor online in a promotional video that showed the gimbal-stabilised camera unfurl from the back camera module and appear to pivot while tracking its subject’s movement. Honor...

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6 d. ago China’s Honor teases ‘Robot Phone’, new AI handset with gimbal

Honor, the Chinese smartphone maker spun off from Huawei Technologies, on Wednesday teased a concept artificial intelligence-enabled handset featuring a fold-out gimbal-attached camera, as the firm looks to differentiate itself from rival Android device makers in the global market. The “Robot Phone” was unveiled by Honor online in a promotional video that showed the gimbal-stabilised camera unfurl from the back camera module and appear to pivot while tracking its subject’s movement. Honor...

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9 d. ago USTR says China 'deferred' when US reached out for phone call after export controls expansion

USTR says China 'deferred' when US reached out for phone call after export controls expansion  Reuters

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9 d. ago US trade envoy says China ‘deferred’ when US tried to discuss export controls

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Sunday that the US reached out to China for a phone call following an announcement that it was expanding its rare earths export controls but Beijing deferred. “I can tell you that we were not notified, and quickly, as soon as we found out from public sources, we reached out to the Chinese to have a phone call, and they deferred,” Greer told Fox News’ Sunday Briefing, while calling China’s move “a power grab”. US President Donald Trump responded on...

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2 w. ago North Korean attackers steal crypto. Who's sending UK phones to China? Avnet confirms data breach

North Korean attackers steal crypto. Who's sending UK phones to China? Avnet confirms data breach  CISO Series

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2 w. ago London gang dismantled as raid uncovers 1,000 stolen phones bound for Hong Kong

London police have dismantled a criminal gang responsible for almost half of all phone thefts in the city in its largest operation targeting stolen phones after discovering a thousand of such devices bound for Hong Kong. The Metropolitan Police (Met) on Tuesday said that after an almost years-long operation it had arrested at least 17 people involved in a criminal network suspected of having smuggled over 40,000 stolen phones from the United Kingdom to China. The syndicate was believed to have...

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2 w. ago Find My iPhone enabled police to catch gang smuggling 40,000 phones to China

Find My iPhone enabled police to catch gang smuggling 40,000 phones to China  9to5Mac

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2 w. ago One iPhone led police to gang suspected of sending up to 40,000 stolen UK phones to China

One iPhone led police to gang suspected of sending up to 40,000 stolen UK phones to China  BBC

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2 w. ago One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China

One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China  BBC

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2 w. ago Gunman in Australia fires up to 100 bullets, wounds 20 in ‘terrifying’ shooting

A man is in custody after allegedly shooting up to a hundred bullets into a busy Sydney street, wounding 20 people, with Australian police on Monday ruling out links to terrorism or gang activity. Police were called on Sunday evening to a street in the city’s Inner West, where the alleged gunman was firing at random at passing cars and police. Office worker Joe Azar said he was working across the road when he heard what he thought were fireworks or rocks being thrown at the windows. “Some guy’s...

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2 w. ago More than HK$210,000 in jewellery and cash stolen from Hong Kong luxury villa

A luxury villa in Hong Kong’s Sha Tin district has been targeted in a pre-dawn burglary, with thieves making off with more than HK$210,000 (US$26,985) in valuables. A 53-year-old man reported to police at 6am on Sunday that his standalone house at Greenland Villas on Ma Yeung Path in Kau To Shan had been broken into. Officers found a damaged window and signs of ransacking. The resident said jewellery worth about HK$45,000 and HK$170,000 in cash were missing from the premises. The case is being...

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3 w. ago Number of 5G mobile phone users in China surpasses 1.15 billion

Number of 5G mobile phone users in China surpasses 1.15 billion  ecns.cn

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