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It has been quite a birthday celebration. Ahead of the fifth anniversary of M+ on November 12, the directors of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Paris’ Centre Pompidou touched down in Hong Kong to finalise a tripartite alliance with the young museum. The formal pact will see two of the world’s pre-eminent modern art museums share collections and programming with M+ on equal footing. On October 31, it was signed, sealed and toasted with high-wattage glamour at the museum’s fundraising...

New data shows Americans’ credit card balances are mounting, as some Democratic lawmakers push for capping interest rates. Credit card balances increased by $22 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 1.7 percent relative to the second quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday. Credit card debt for this year topped...

Three children across NSW have been hospitalised after separate e-bike crashes, with one in a serious condition.

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On tote bags distributed by Asian-owned businesses in the US state of Georgia, three Asian-American women appeared in a design inspired by the Three Ladies rice brand. The bags were part of a campaign that put a voting twist on the online “Asian baby girl” meme. “We had an ‘Asian Ballot Girls’ campaign,” said Chany Chea, programme director of the Asian-American Advocacy Fund. “We had merch which went viral.” As Democrats won races in Republican strongholds across the southern United States in...

The River City is in for a week of humid, rainy weather with a chance of storms.

The River City is in for a week of humid, rainy weather with a chance of storms.

Nvidia announced Tuesday that it has hired a former acting U.S. attorney to investigate its CEO, Jensen Huang, following reports of his alleged intimate relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence officials believe was spying for China. “The independent members of the NVIDIA Board have retained former acting U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New...

Nvidia announced Tuesday that it has hired a former acting U.S. attorney to investigate its CEO, Jensen Huang, following reports of his alleged intimate relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence officials believe was spying for China. “The independent members of the NVIDIA Board have retained former acting U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New...

A leading cybersecurity scientist in the Chinese military, Guo Shize, has been removed from the website of the country’s top national research institute. Guo, 57, a researcher at the Information Technology Security Research Centre of the People’s Liberation Army, was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2023. It is not known when his page was removed from the academy’s website, but Chinese media reports noted the change on Monday. Neither the academy nor Beijing’s defence ministry...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other Trump administration officials to end new tariffs and issue grocery reimbursements for Michigan residents being hit with rising prices. “The unpredictable federal tariff policy has left Michiganders with the highest tariff burden in the nation,” Whitmer wrote in a letter to Bessent....