A Chinese research ship arrived in the Maldives on Thursday, global ship-tracking data showed, just three months after a similar vessel visited the Indian Ocean and sparked New Delhi’s security concerns.The visit follows January comments by a US think tank that China’s navy could “leverage the insights gained from these missions” for deployment of naval forces, a claim Beijing calls part of a concocted image-smearing “China threat” narrative.
Xiang Yang Hong 03, owned by a research institute that reports to China’s natural resources ministry, made a port call in the Maldives capital of Male, data from MarineTraffic showed, more than a month after leaving its southeastern home port of Xiamen. Read More...
Nordic Dragon, the star graduate of the 2022 Hong Kong International Sale, could give a timely boost to the Jockey Club’s promotion of this year’s catalogue by completing a Happy Valley hat-trick on Wednesday.
With permit holders soon able to inspect the 18 lots ahead of the June 30 sale at Sha Tin, Nordic Dragon lines up in Wednesday’s Class Two The Cricket Club Valley Stakes (1,200m) at the city circuit, seeking his first win in the grade, third victory on the bounce and fifth success in eight career starts. Read More...
As a teenager in Austin, Texas, Leitzes interned at a software start-up where the CEO encouraged her to try to start a company at least once in her life. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school, she worked on Wall Street with beauty and fashion clients for a few years before packing her bags for China in 2010.
“This was back when there was a financial crisis and I was sitting in Shanghai and [the upscale shopping neighbourhood] Xintiandi, the energy was here,” she said. Read More...
