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Interview with David Wu (KwokTalk: Breaking Boundaries)

The Novelty Chinese American Actor HK 1990s. The host for this show is Crystal Kwok. The guest is David Wu. How Asian American actors were perceived, treated, and portrayed in films and TV during the 1990s in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k-ynFpwaXt33MGAyHzUenc Please visit our ThinkTech […]

Being a Trans Man in Hong Kong (KwokTalk: Breaking Boundaries)

Kaspar Wan. The host for this show is Crystal Kwok. The guest is Kaspar Wan. Kaspar speaks to the history of trans in Chinese societies, his sex change operation, and the importance of support in health care and family. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k-ynFpwaXt33MGAyHzUenc Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com […]

Rebranding Blackness (KwokTalk: Breaking Boundaries)

Visions from the Africa Center HK. The host for this show is Crystal Kwok. The guest is Innocent Mutanga. Confronting residues of postcolonialism and anti-Blackness in Asia, resituating the lens on racism and colorism from an transatlantic perspective. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k-ynFpwaXt33MGAyHzUenc Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and […]

Understanding Xi Jinping’s Vision and Agenda (Keeping the World Company)

What is in Store for China’s Global Expansion. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Jean Rosenfeld, historian and independent scholar, helps us understand Xi Jinping’s agenda and his autocratic, economic and territorial aspirations for the future of China, and the drivers, factors and precedents that keep him in […]

How to Become Wonder Woman (KwokTalk: Breaking Boundaries)

Kick-ass Strength for the Aging Body. The host for this show is Crystal Kwok. The guest is Beth Narain. Pushing boundaries across time in male-dominated spaces. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k-ynFpwaXt33MGAyHzUenc Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com. ThinkTech Hawaii streams from 10:00 […]

Traveling Asia (KwokTalk: Breaking Boundaries)

Through a Neo-colonial Lens. The host for this show is Crystal Kwok. The guest is Vijay Verghese. A look at how Eurocentric/western travels to colonized Asian countries impacted ideas of the East. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k-ynFpwaXt33MGAyHzUenc Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at […]

Days of Being Wild (KwokTalk: Breaking Boundaries)

Untold Adventures of Governor Abercrombie. The host for this show is Crystal Kwok. The guest is Neil Abercrombie. Governor Neil Abercrombie shares memories of youthful romps around Hong Kong’s famous night club district. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6k-ynFpwaXt33MGAyHzUenc Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories […]

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Sunak vows to hit 2.5% defence spend target by 2030

The PM says an extra £75bn over six years will put the UK's defence industry on a "war footing". [...]

BBC sees people struggling on migrant boat before five died

The BBC’s Andrew Harding witnessed a vessel leave the French coast in which five people later died. [...]

Husband of ex-Post Office boss advised on IT 'bug'

A decision to use "less emotive" words for problems with Horizon is called "Orwellian", inquiry hears. [...]

Camilla, William and Kate receive royal honours

The King awards historic honours to senior royals, in a year that has seen pressures of ill health. [...]

Petrol prices on UK forecourts hit 150p a litre

Rising oil prices have lifted the cost of filling up but it may prove short-term, claim experts. [...]

Students at several US universities have staged large protests in response to Israel's military operations in Gaza. Student arrests have sparked outrage, but demonstrators have also been accused of antisemitism. [...]

An Israeli army battalion, Netzah Yehuda, may, among other things, be excluded from receiving US financial support. The US has never imposed sanctions on the Israeli army before. [...]

Spain and France will share information from their separate investigations into the use of Pegasus software to spy on their politicians, including Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and President Emmanuel Macron. [...]

It is the latest tragedy on a route that has become popular among thousands of migrants trying to reach Gulf countries from the Horn of Africa. [...]

Six suspected spies have been arrested in quick succession. Security services see links to the war against Ukraine, economic interests and a war on democracy. [...]

Report on UNRWA concludes Israel has not provided evidence of employees' militancy

An independent review commissioned by the United Nations did not have a mandate to investigate Israel's other claim that a dozen UNRWA employees took part in the Oct. 7 Hamas-led [...]

Justice Department pays $138 million over FBI failures in Larry Nassar case

The DOJ settlement goes to 139 victims of Larry Nassar, the disgraced team doctor of USA Gymnastics who sexually assaulted elite and Olympic gymnasts, after the FBI failed to promptly [...]

Pro-Palestinian encampments and protests spread on college campuses across the U.S.

After dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Columbia, Yale and NYU, students at colleges from Massachusetts to Minnesota to California are erecting encampments in solidarity. [...]

What's at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies

The Supreme Court will consider the question: Should doctors treating pregnancy complications follow state or federal law if the laws conflict? Here's how the case could affect women and doctors. [...]

Gaza solidarity protests sweep U.S. colleges; SCOTUS tackles Starbucks union case

Tensions are high as campus protests over the war in Gaza stretch across the U.S. The Supreme Court will hear a case about pro-union Starbucks employees. [...]

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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