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Abortion Ruling Could Undermine the F.D.A.’s Drug-Approval Authority

New York Times Legal scholars say the ruling by a Texas judge, if upheld, could spur disputes over many medications and upend the drug industry’s reliance on the agency. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/health/abortion-pill-fda.html

Aspiring ethnic minority medical students in Hong Kong face many hurdles, marginalisation among them

Hong Kong Free Press By Maggie Holmes Kaushiki Chaturvedi spent a Saturday morning in late March inspecting human body parts in a dissection lab. “It was kind of gory, but it didn’t smell that bad,” she said. Secondary school students attend a two-day medical school immersion programme in Hong Kong, in March. 2023. Photo: Asian…

China jails two prominent human rights lawyers for over ten years

Hong Kong Free Press Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, including one who had called for leader Xi Jinping to resign, have been jailed for over a decade, an advocacy group and one of the men’s wives said Monday. Chinese civil right lawyers Xu Zhiyong (left) and Ding Jiaxi (right). File photo: Yaxue Cao, via…

Tesla to open battery factory in Shanghai as China seeks foreign investment

Washington Post Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, said the factory will supplement another in California. The batteries are touted as a solution to avoid outages and stabilize power grids. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/10/tesla-shanghai-megapack-battery-factory/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Tesla to open battery factory in Shanghai as China seeks foreign investment

TSMC Posts First Revenue Drop in Nearly Four Years

Wall Street Journal Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said its revenue fell 15% in March from a year earlier, marking the first drop in nearly four years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tsmc-posts-first-revenue-drop-in-nearly-four-years-395380c6

Dine in or fly out? Sluggish Easter for Hong Kong’s eateries as most travel overseas, outflow dwarfs tourist arrivals

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Catering sector still clawing way back to pre-pandemic levels, with mainland customers not playing big role over long weekend. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3216536/dine-or-fly-out-sluggish-easter-hong-kongs-eateries-most-travel-overseas-outflow-dwarfs-tourist?utm_source=rss_feed

North Korea cuts communication link with ‘puppet traitor’ South amid US drills

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Seoul said on Monday that the North could have ‘unilaterally cut-off’ a communications link between the two Koreas after it failed to respond for a fourth straight day to regularly held calls. https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3216535/north-korea-cuts-communication-link-puppet-traitor-south-amid-us-drills?utm_source=rss_feed

Israel’s Karaites celebrate Passover amid interest in alternative Judaism

Jerusalem Post The ancient Jewish movement rejects rabbinic authority, relying instead on Hebrew Bible for religious law. https://www.jpost.com/judaism/jewish-holidays/article-738847

Lebanon still proxy battleground, 50 years after Israel raid

Washington Post It was a cold night 50 years ago when an Israeli commando team led by a man disguised as a woman infiltrated a posh Beirut neighborhood and shot and killed three top officials from the Palestine Liberation Organization in their apartments https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/lebanon-israel-plo-beirut-ehud-barak/0e00166c-d767-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world