Day: February 3, 2024

New Amazon TV Series Filmed in Hong Kong but Unavailable There

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Hong Kong  — Frustrated Hong Kong residents say they have been unable to watch the online TV series Expats, starring Hollywood star Nicole Kidman, which was launched globally on Amazon Prime Video late last week and focuses on the former British colony. The six-part show, directed by Chinese-born American filmmaker Lulu Wang, is based on a novel by Korean American author Janice Y. K. Lee. The plot revolves around the lives of three women in Hong Kong in 2014, and the scenes include numerous Hong Kong elements. In addition to settings…

Bank of Japan grows more confident about imminent exit from negative rates

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Officials in the Bank of Japan have grown increasingly confident that the economy is robust enough to attempt an imminent exit from the world’s remaining negative interest rates. The central bank has become more bullish on its inflation outlook due to rising momentum for wage increases and growth in service sector prices, strengthening the view that it could end negative interest rates — a pillar of its ultra-loose monetary policy…

Prominent Australians Urge Government to Do More to Defuse US-China Tensions

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SYDNEY — A group of prominent Australians including former politicians, diplomats and academics have called on the government to adopt “an activist middle power role” to avert U.S.-China conflict. A group of high-profile Australians Wednesday called for the government to take action to head off conflict between the United States and China. The group, led by former Australian foreign affairs ministers Bob Carr and Gareth Evans, said in a statement that without a “comprehensive new détente,” tensions between the United States and China could escalate into a conflict that could involve…