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HONG KONG: One of China’s top officials overseeing Hong Kong affairs, Xia Baolong, said on Tuesday (Apr 15) that the United States’ tariff war was “extremely shameless” and aims to “take away Hong Kong’s life”. Xia, the director of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office under the State Council, said bullying had never worked on Chinese people, including those from Hong Kong. Xia said that “let those peasants in the United States wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation”. “The Chinese people do not cause trouble, nor are they afraid of trouble. Pressure, threats and blackmail…

Yet “John Proctor” is not an anti-“Crucible” tract. (Substantial excerpts from “The Crucible” have been authorized by the Arthur Miller trust.) Though Belflower argues, straightforwardly and successfully, that the older play fails to take seriously the misogyny behind the witch hunts, she essentially admits its dramaturgical power, in part by imitation. Her own characters and situations take more than a page from Miller’s. She borrows but reframes the idea of a crucible as the kind of hothouse you might find in any high school. And in ways that feel perfectly natural, her girls fall into paroxysms of laughter, screaming and…

In the decades since the first Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival took place in Southern California in 1999, its cultural footprint has grown to encompass way more than music. This year’s event, which kicked off over the weekend, reflected that evolution: It was a days-long concert, but also a “White Lotus” reunion, a political rally and, as in years past, a fashion spectacle.Sets by Jennie and Lisa, the Blackpink members turned solo acts, and Lady Gaga had people buzzing about the singers’ outfits almost as much as their musical performances. Lisa’s set also had people talking about its crowd,…

In baseball’s Age of Collaboration, the hot seat for managers should be viewed more as an oversized sofa, with front-office executives and statistical analysts all squeezing in. Firing the manager when others bear responsibility for shaping rosters and influencing decisions often amounts to blatant scapegoating. Perhaps that is one reason early dismissals are becoming less common.Only three managers have been dumped before the All-Star break since 2018, all in 2022. The Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies went on to reach the postseason after making changes that year, but the trend did not last. Teams take pride in removing emotion…

Visitors look at the display of SK Hynix Inc. 12-layer HBM3E memory chips at the Semiconductor Exhibition (SEDEX) in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korea announced Tuesday a support package of 33 trillion won ($23.25 billion) for its vital semiconductor industry, as heightened uncertainty over U.S. tariffs threatens domestic companies.This comes after U.S. president Donald Trump reportedly said he would be announcing the tariff rate on imported semiconductors soon, after exempting them from his steep “reciprocal” tariffs last Friday.In a social media post Monday, Trump vowed to investigate the “whole electronics…

Anthony Denier, CEO fo Webull, speaks during an interview on CNBC on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 1, 2022. Brendan McDermid | ReutersShares of Webull soared nearly 375% on Monday, the second day on the market for the stock-trading app, which completed its merger last week with SK Growth Opportunities Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).The rally gives Webull a market cap of almost $30 billion. Webull competes with Robinhood, Charles Schwab and E-Trade. The app lets investors buy and sell shares and options in individual securities, exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies,…

These are the key events on day 1,146 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Monday, April 14 : Fighting Ukraine’s Air Force said that Russian missiles and guided bombs have once more struck the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine. Local officials said the attack struck the city’s outskirts and reported no casualties, a day after a missile strike in the city killed 35 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking in a nightly video address, said the toll from Sunday’s attack in Sumy had risen to 35 dead and 119 injured. Forty people remain in hospital,…

Vice President JD Vance dropped the College Football Playoff national championship trophy during an event on the White House South Lawn on Monday, an ill-timed fumble that he laughed about later after it had spread across social media.As the ceremony honoring the champion Ohio State Buckeyes came to an end, Mr. Vance — a former senator from Ohio who graduated from Ohio State — tried to lift the trophy, which was on a table onstage.TreVeyon Henderson, a Buckeyes running back, stepped in to help, grabbing the top of the trophy as Mr. Vance lifted the base. As the men hoisted…

A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Monday from ending a signature Biden-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants from four troubled countries to enter the country and work legally.The administration moved in late March to shut down the program by April 24, which offered migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti temporary legal status in the United States. Judge Indira Talwani, of the Federal District Court in Boston, said the program’s termination put thousands of immigrants at imminent risk of deportation hearings once their legal status expires in less than two weeks.Judge Talwani…

A woman who has been tending what she calls a “sacred fire” in Stanley Park is pushing back against a local First Nations leader who has questioned her claim to the area. Brenda Silvey calls herself a matriarch of the land, and her supporters say they’ve been holding ceremony with support from hereditary leaders.She has kept the fire alight near the park’s totem poles for more than a month to protest the Vancouver Park Board’s operation to remove dead and dying looper moth-affected trees. 1:55 Musqueam chief questioning claims by Stanley Park logging protester Over the weekend, Musqueam Chief Wayne…