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On Feb. 22, the Wall Street Journal quoted insiders who said that China’s Boyu Capital, a private equity firm founded by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin’s grandson, Jiang Zhicheng, has moved part of its business from its Hong Kong headquarters to Singapore. Two co-founders of the company have also relocated to Singapore. The transition was […]

Two parents have been charged for allegedly attempting to smuggle over 100 kilograms of drugs in their luggage and one of their children’s suitcases at Toronto Pearson International Airport. On Feb. 7, Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) officers searched the family—two adults and two children, aged 10 and 12—after they arrived from Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Two more provincial police officers have been charged over allegations of corruption related to the province’s tow truck industry. Inspector Steve Grosjean, 62, of the Ontario Provincial Police’s highway safety division in Mississauga, is facing a breach of trust charge. The OPP also arrested 57-year old Const. Bindo Showan on charges of secret commissions and

My sanity was questioned when friends and family found out I was leaving sunny Florida for a quick trip to the cold Colorado mountains during one of the harshest weeks of winter—the same week much of Texas was battling unprecedented snowfall and the resulting chaos, and the same week Snowmass had just received a grand

Commentary You may find it instructive, as I did, to look at the headlines, with their subheads, from two different and apparently unrelated stories in Thursday’s New York Times. Here’s the first, in its on-line version: “Behind the Nashville Bombing, a Conspiracy Theorist Stewing About the Government: Anthony Warner, who was obsessed with an outlandish

Noticing that an elderly woman on her delivery route hadn’t collected her mail for three days, a USPS worker grew increasingly concerned. However, the phone call she made next has been credited with saving the senior citizen’s life. Shonda Lemon, 34, has worked as a USPS mail carrier in Chicago, Illinois, for eight years. She

After braving two years of relentless torture in a communist forced-labor camp in China, a woman was safely rescued to Australia by her fiancé nearly 20 years ago. The couple, now in their 50s, recounted to The Epoch Times their soul-stirring journey through the darkest days of life, exposing the injustices happening behind the closed

BAGHDAD—A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of their militiamen and wounding a number of others, an Iraqi militia official said Friday. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded

An Ohio officer has died in the line of duty while trying to rescue two teenagers who fell into a frozen lake earlier this week, authorities confirmed. The drowning incident happened on Tuesday around 6:00 p.m. at Rocky Fork State Park in Hillsboro—a city in Highland County, WCPO reported. One of the teenagers, identified as

LONDON—The parent company of British Airways and Iberia on Friday said it lost €6.9 billion ($8.3 billion) last year as the pandemic caused a near-total collapse in international air traffic, and called for digital passes to help revive travel. IAG’s after-tax loss compared with a profit of €1.7 billion the year before. Its revenue slumped