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The former deputy prime minister will lay an amendment on Wednesday to speed up the workers rights’ bill, after “considerable anger” that unelected Lords forced the watering down of day-one rights, Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar report.
Twelve more prisoners have been mistakenly freed in the past month and two are still at large, David Lammy has said.
I’m not going to give details of those cases, because these are operational decisions made by the police, and you’ll understand if they’re about to arrest somebody they don’t want me to blow the cover.

After the fatal shooting of a professor at UNC in 2023, a group of Chinese international students said they struggled to find culturally competent mental health resources. So they organized to provide ...

She ran in a newly drawn, northwest district with the county's largest Asian American population in her first bid for political office. She knew it would be a challenge to knock off the Republican ...

Independent inquiry into fire and media questions to leader would not happen in mainland China, but crackdown on dissent has begun
As Hong Kong mourns the victims of its , the response to the disaster reveals the ways in which the semi-autonomous city retains differences from mainland China – and how some of those differences are being eroded.
Hong Kong’s leader, John Lee, announced on Tuesday the creation of an “independent committee” to investigate the blaze, which killed 151 people at the Wang Fuk Court apartment complex in Hong Kong’s New Territories.

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies.

Each side claims to have fended off an incursion in the disputed waters near Taiwan.

AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.

The fire is the deadliest the city has seen in more than 70 years.

Fernilee, Derbyshire: You could hardly blame them for flaunting their spectacular plumage, and that’s what the males do in their glittering mating display
It’s funny to think that the 80 ducks present on this reservoir before me would have been unthinkable in my childhood. Even stranger is that we now get the birds on our garden pond. Yet all the known sites in the 1970s were in southern England and were often inflected towards landed privilege and material wealth. Windsor Great Park was one of their more prestigious addresses, but the other stronghold for the country’s entire population was at Virginia Water in Surrey (where the average house price today is £1.4m).
Even the name of this hole-nesting waterfowl – mandarin duck – arose because the people bringing them back from China wanted to conjure both their exoticism as well as their elite status. In those days, the idea was further backed by hard cash. In 1864, the Zoological Society of London had to pay £70 for just two pairs. At that price in today’s values, my 80 Fernilee birds would be worth £158,820.

Panda Express is pairing up with Los Angeles chocolatiers, Compartés, for a unique and limited American Chinese twist on chocolate. Read our review, here.

Panda Express is pairing up with Los Angeles chocolatiers, Compartés, for a unique and limited American Chinese twist on chocolate. Read our review, here.

Chinese diners across the U.S. say these five restaurants serve exceptionally authentic regional dishes, from Sichuan classics to perfect Peking duck.