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Starbucks likely to tap board director to fill top job as Schultz exit looms

Starbucks Corp.’s hunt for a new chief executive officer has no shortage of complications: The coffee giant’s crucial China business is sputtering and its US stores are grappling with unionization efforts, potential turnoffs for plum candidates. The company lacks natural internal successors after the departure last year of two C-suite…

Tribune News Service

Harrods delays summer discount sale due to global supply chain issues

Supplies are running ‘two to three weeks’ behind, a situation the store says has been exacerbated by post-Brexit staff shortages

The Guardian - UK

‘After Yang’ Is Infused With Asian Americanness

‘After Yang’ is a sci-fi grounded in a plausible future history, conveying an uncanny sense of frisson familiar to Asian Americans, American Asians, or indeed anyone caught between two cultures in hard-to-delineate ways. The film is part of the 2022 Taipei Film Festival.

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War in Ukraine has 'shattered peace in Europe', says NATO chief before summit

Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg spoke out days before alliance leaders gather in Madrid for a major summit the crisis, more arms for Kyiv and how to deal with China

Daily Mirror

JX Luxventure Adopts $5M Stock Buyback Program; Inks $30M Sales Agreement

JX Luxventure Ltd (NASDAQ:LLL) Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program of up to $5 million shares. The funds for the repurchases under the program will be personally provided by the CEO, Sun Lei. The Board thinks the share buyback program will restore shareholder confidence in the company as the current…

Benzinga

China says Ukraine crisis has sounded alarm for humanity

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said the conflict in Ukraine has “sounded an alarm for humanity," but proposed no solutions

The Independent UK

Chinese Analyst Provokes Country To Attack Elon Musk's Popular Starlink Satellite Service

In a paper published by the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications Technology, a Chinese researcher urged the Chinese military to track and monitor every satellite in the Starlink network, Bloomberg reports. Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) chief Elon Musk’s satellite service provides internet access in over 30 countries. Ren Yuanzhen cited the pervasiveness, ability…

Benzinga

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Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly double in 20 years

New global data shows that emissions of heat-trapping gases coming from making cement have doubled in the last 20 years

The Independent UK

Defence Minister Richard Marles visits India to boost military ties, compares notes on approach to China

The Defence Minister Richard Marles says Australia and India have been drawn together because both countries are wrestling with the "difficult problem" of how to reconcile strong economic ties with China against shared anxieties over Beijing's growing military might.

ABC News

Stanley Johnson calls for parliament ban on ‘agreeable’ Chinese ambassador to be lifted

PM’s father heading to Xinjiang to make TV show about Marco Polo – but insists it is ‘not a political exercise’

The Independent UK

China Sentences Man Linked To Alibaba Employee Sexual Assault Case

A China court sentenced a man to 18 months in prison for being involved in Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) female employee sexual assault case, the Global Times reports. The court held Zhang Guo guilty of forcible indecency against a female employee surnamed Zhou of Alibaba Group during a business dinner in July…

Benzinga

Opinion: Possible Tariff Rollback Won’t Alter U.S. Strategy to Contain China

As the U.S. stares down record inflation, it plans to ‘outcompete’ China in key areas

Caixin Global

Chinese city stripped of ‘civilised’ title after attack on female diners

Tangshan loses national honorary status as police officials investigated over incident that shocked China

The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong could start quarantine-free business travel corridor with China, advisers urge

HONG KONG: Hong Kong should aim for a quarantine-free business travel corridor as a precursor to a full-scale reopening of its borders, as the city's reconnection with mainland China and other parts of the world is ranked high among Beijing's priorities, government advisers have said.

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Chinese Demand For Exotic Cures Has Donkey Population Plunging In South Africa

The rising demand in China for a gelatin called "ejiao," obtained from donkeys, has pushed South Africa's humbler creature population to plunge.

Caixin Global

TikTok’s Chinese Twin Wins Rights to Stream FIFA World Cup

China's state broadcasting behemoth has picked the short video app as a partner to deliver the tournament to Chinese fans online

Salon

A century of war, fascism and death

Billionaires won't give up on corporate rule. The angry masses embrace fascist demagogues. This won't end well

Daily Mirror

Huge 20ft sinkhole swallows road in London street causing motorbike to fall inside

Police were called to the scene in Bexleyheath, south-east London, at around 9.30pm, with dramatic pictures showing a crater spanning the width of the residential road

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The Guardian - UK

Hong Kong plunges lower in global human rights index

Region now on par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators – and coming closer to converging with China

Reuters

Hong Kong Palace Museum aims to engage city's youth with Chinese culture

Hong Kong's new Palace Museum, a gift from Beijing to marks 25th anniversary of the territory's return to Chinese rule, aims to engage the city's younger generation with Chinese culture, its director said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Two Chinese rights lawyers face trial for state subversion

Two prominent Chinese rights lawyers are set to go on trial behind closed doors this week on charges of state subversion, campaign groups said, part of a clampdown on dissent and rights activism under President Xi Jinping.

Bangkok Post

China’s Xi stresses deep affection for Hong Kong in state media

Chinese state media trumpeted President Xi Jinping’s “deep affection” for Hong Kong, as speculation builds that he’ll travel to the city for handover anniversary celebrations on July 1.

Caixin Global

Shanghai Composite Index Fell 1.2% on Wednesday

Shenzhen Component Index closed down 1.43%

Reuters

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka plans donor conference with China, India and Japan

Sri Lanka will hold a donor conference with China, India and Japan as it seeks overseas assistance to find a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

One in 10 Aussies trust China’s government - survey

Just over one in 10 Australians have faith in the Chinese government to act responsibly in international affairs, according to a new survey, amid attempts to resume diplomatic links between the nations under the country’s new Labor leadership.

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