Learning Chinese Is Easy

Ms. Ong Appears On Asia In Review With Bill Sharp To Discuss Different Strategies Of Learning Chinese In A Relaxing, Productive Manner. And Yes Learning Chinese Is Easy! And, Given That She Is A Native Of Singapore, Ms. Ong And Bill Discuss The Road Ahead For Singapore In The Post-Lee Kuan-Yew Era. ThinkTech Hawaii streams […]

One Belt, One Road

One of the biggest stories today in Asia and as well globally is China’s initiative, One Belt, One Road. It is an economic and diplomatic initiative which will involve over 60 countries, 60% of the world’s population and 33% of the world’s GDP. It will connect China with Europe over the historic land route known […]

Legislature Updates

As The 2017 Hawaii Legislature Winds To A Close, It Is Clear That Tax-And-Spend Policies May Be The Ultimate Winner. In This Episode Of E Hana Kakou, Grassroot Institute Staff Will Report On A Range Of Activity From Tax Increases To Attempts To Keep The Public Out Of The Government’s Business. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live […]

The Golden Goose

Quinn Vittum is President of Reuse Hawaii. Quinn appears on Code Green with Howard Wiig to share how Reuse Hawaii, a local non-profit, is deconstructing homes to reduce construction waste in Hawaii’s landfill, lower the cost of building supplies and recycle high quality materials. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to […]

Astronomy in Antarctica

Casey Honniball Is A Graduate Student At The University Of Hawai’i At Manoa’s Hawai’i Institute Of Geophysics And Planetology. Casey Joins Pete Mouginis Mark On Research In Manoa To Discuss Her Work That Involves Flying A Research Balloon In Antarctica. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday […]

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Gag Order Hearing Is Heated as Judge Considers Citing Trump for Contempt

Justice Juan M. Merchan, overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, warned the former president’s lawyer that he was losing credibility. [...]

National Enquirer’s Help for Trump Broke Norms Even in the Tabloid World

The tabloid’s parent company was fined for breaking federal election laws after spending money to buy and bury stories that could have harmed Donald J. Trump’s campaign. [...]

Trump Flips Script in Election Case to Justify Immunity Defense

The former president’s claim ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court hearing that he was protecting the election system rather than subverting it is part of a pattern of shaping his [...]

FTC Bans Worker Noncompete Clauses

The rule would prohibit companies from limiting their employees’ ability to work for rivals, a change that could increase competition and boost wages. [...]

Columbia University Protests: Inside a Week of Unrest on Campus

In a Washington war room, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, decided to call police officers to arrest protesting students. The backlash now threatens her leadership. [...]

'Show respect', Nottingham victim's mum urges police over graphic WhatsApp

Emma Webber has urged the author of a graphic post in a police Whatsapp group to contact her. [...]

Former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81

The crossbench peer spent 40 years as MP for Birkenhead and was a leading voice on welfare reform. [...]

US Congress approves $95bn aid package for Ukraine and Israel

President Biden is expected to sign the package, which includes a potential TikTok ban, into law. [...]

TikTok faces US ban as bill set to be signed by Biden

The app's owner, ByteDance, has nine months to sell its stake or face being blocked in the US. [...]

Warning over 30 hours' free childcare rollout

The National Audit Office says a £35m pilot to test the expansion of free childcare in a few areas was cancelled. [...]

Australian police arrested seven people in connection with an investigation into a 16-year-old accused of stabbing a priest in western Sydney. Officials said those arrested represented an "unacceptable risk and [...]

Germany will reestablish cooperation with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the government said. Meanwhile, Israel has thanked the US Senate for approving billions in miliary aid. Follow [...]

Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, who was once accused by the team of the late Alexei Navalny of living a lavish lifestyle, is suspected to have taken bribes. [...]

A North Korean Cabinet minister who led a delegation visit to Moscow earlier this month is in Iran, according to Pyongyang state media. [...]

The move comes a year after three children and three staff were killed in a school shooting in Nashville. The bill will now be sent to Republican Governor Bill Lee [...]

Senate overwhelmingly passes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with bipartisan vote

The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late Tuesday after the House had approved the package Saturday. Biden is expected to quickly sign the legislation. [...]

Tesla profits have plummeted. Elon Musk remains all-in on robotaxis

Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk remains bullish on a future that's self-driving and battery-powered. [...]

Trump to score additional $1.2 billion windfall thanks to his Truth Social app

Trump is getting additional shares in his social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group, as part of his current agreement. He still can't cash in yet though. [...]

Scrambled GPS: the New Electronic Fog of War

Two stories of how our reliance on GPS becomes problematic in regions experiencing war. In Ukraine, the power grid's use of GPS becomes a liability. And in the Middle East [...]

A hunk of space junk crashed through a Florida man's roof. Who should pay to fix it?

"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been [...]

Transcript: 118th Congress: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) [...]

New reports claim that hundreds of bodies have been recovered from a site in Khan Younis. The IDF denies creating graves at the Nasser medical complex. [...]

Range Resources: Q1 Earnings Snapshot [...]

A unique book club at one of the nation’s largest jails brings together college students and inmates [...]

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