The Hong Kong Telegraph - News from Hong Kong and China in seven languages, daily around the clock

Hong Kong -

IN THE NEWS

Brook upbeat about England ODI form amid Test captaincy uncertainty

Brook upbeat about England ODI form amid Test captaincy uncertainty

Harry Brook was adamant England's white-ball cricket was "heading in the right direction" after another chastening one-day international loss saw India enjoy a six-wicket success at Edgbaston on Tuesday.

Read more
Nasdaq rebounds as cooling US inflation weighs on dollar

Nasdaq rebounds as cooling US inflation weighs on dollar

Wall Street stocks rose following strong earnings from large US banks and an unexpectedly benign inflation report that weighed on the dollar.

Read more
Record-smashing heat wave surges from West to eastern US, Canada

Record-smashing heat wave surges from West to eastern US, Canada

A record-smashing heat wave was spreading Tuesday from the Mountain West toward the eastern United States and Canada, placing more than 100 million people under heat alerts.

Read more
Hurdles record holder Tharp claims first win as professional in Budapest

Hurdles record holder Tharp claims first win as professional in Budapest

New world record holder Ja’Kobe Tharp impressed on Tuesday by blazing to a 12.85sec clocking in the 110m hurdles at the Budapest meet, even though he eased up in the final metres.

Read more
Wildfires that ravaged historic forest outside Paris contained

Wildfires that ravaged historic forest outside Paris contained

Hundreds of French firefighters on Tuesday managed to contain two fires that have burned over 2,000 hectares of the historic Fontainebleau forest near Paris over the last two days.

Read more
McIlroy and Scheffler unconcerned by their place in golf history

McIlroy and Scheffler unconcerned by their place in golf history

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, the world's leading two golfers, both brushed aside questions about their places in sporting history with some black humour just two days out from their respective quests to win a second British Open title.

Read more
NY state pauses new large data center projects in US first

NY state pauses new large data center projects in US first

New York became the first US state to halt construction of new large-scale data centers on Tuesday, with the governor signing an executive order pausing permits for up to one year.

Read more
Gill enjoys more Edgbaston success as India beat England in 1st ODI

Gill enjoys more Edgbaston success as India beat England in 1st ODI

India captain Shubman Gill continued his Edgbaston love-affair as his side beat England by six wickets in the first one-day international on Tuesday.

Read more
England v Argentina: World Cup battles

England v Argentina: World Cup battles

England will face Argentina in the World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday, renewing a bitter rivalry in the tournament that stretches back to the early 1960s.

Read more
IBM shares plunge as AI spending boom disrupts business

IBM shares plunge as AI spending boom disrupts business

Shares in IBM plunged 24 percent on Tuesday after the US tech giant released disappointing preliminary second-quarter results, blaming a shift in spending by customers due to expected higher prices for memory chips and other AI-related infrastructure.

Read more