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Ho Chi Minh City’s bustling jewellery quarter has fallen unusually quiet. Customers are not browsing for engagement rings or necklaces any more – instead they are clutching old receipts and certificates, hoping to sell diamonds they no longer trust. The discovery of what appears to be Vietnam’s biggest-ever diamond smuggling network has rippled through the industry. Investigators allege more than 30,000 stones worth over 1.5 trillion dong (US$57 million) were brought into the country over the...

Marina Julius y su esposo cuidan gatos callejeros y ferales en su vecindario, proporcionándoles atención médica, esterilización y buscando hogares adecuados para ellos. Y para ayudar a contrarrestar las elevadas facturas veterinarias que requiere esa dedicación, han encontrado una solución útil: llevar a los animales al otro lado de la frontera, a México. En lugar […]

Republican former Rep. Kay Granger of Texas has died, lawmakers announced Sunday.

Alibaba Group Holding has made its next-generation flagship artificial intelligence model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week. The move marks Alibaba’s return to open-sourcing its top-tier AI models after keeping several recent flagship releases proprietary earlier this year. It also signals the firm’s entry into a recent round of powerful releases by Chinese developers aggressively narrowing the gap with leading US labs. The massive...

Two parents in New York state who pleaded guilty to starving their baby to death will receive no jail time after a guilty plea to second-degree manslaughter. The post Parents Who Starved Their 75-Day-Old Baby to Death Will Get No Jail Time After Guilty Plea – Guess Who the Judge Is appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

A surgical procedure for Alzheimer’s disease being tested in Hong Kong has the potential to improve patients’ ability to take care of their basic needs such as getting dressed and remaining socially engaged. The ongoing clinical trial, launched by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), involves an operation that drains an abnormal build-up of two protein types in the brain. The clinical application was pioneered by a mainland Chinese doctor in Hangzhou as early as 2018 and...

A potential US ban on Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models could cost American businesses up to US$12 billion per year, according to calculations by a US-based academic, as technology firms increasingly turn to cost-efficient Chinese solutions. While the exact economic toll of a ban remains difficult to quantify, usage data from New York-based OpenRouter – a large language model (LLM) aggregator – offers a glimpse into the potential fallout, said Daniel Yue, an assistant...

Both countries have said that they will not hesitate to conduct joint interventions in the future.

While no doubt there remains room for improvement Campus Reform is reporting that  "A new study from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has found that the number of schools maintaining restrictive policies on student expression has hit an all-time low." This is good news for those of us that still believe in free speech and for conservative organizations who wish to express their views. The post Good News! Record Low Number of Schools are Restricting Free Speech appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

When Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul’s Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean college’s brightest graduates struggled to land a job. So in 2019 she launched a service to connect South Korean jobseekers with Japanese employers. “I was surprised that they couldn’t find a job because they were so smart,” the 35-year-old said in Seoul at a two-day job fair organised by KOREC, her start-up, last month. “Many could speak Japanese, ‌so I...

The strong box office performance gives a boost to Disney ahead of the much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday.

An unwelcome newcomer in the Med. The post PUFFER MENACE: Terrifying Invasive Species Silver-Cheeked Toadfish Is Spreading Throughout the Mediterranean With Its Toxic Flesh and Crushing Bite appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.