Chinese President Xi Jinping told Blinken that the two countries should be “partners, not rivals”, but that there were a “number of issues” to be resolved in their relations. Meeting Blinken in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Xi said the two countries had “made some positive progress” since he…

SINGAPORE: The year was 1978 and it was a day former private driving instructor Sunny Kang remembers vividly: One of his students stepped into his car for a lesson – wearing a wet swimsuit.  “She came to learn driving while wearing her swimsuit. The moment she stepped in, the whole car seat was wet,” said Mr Kang, 75, in Mandarin.  “I grumbled a bit and told her off, but she said that there was no…

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SINGAPORE: Four men in their twenties were arrested in the early hours of Thursday (Apr 25) after a fight involving weapons along Prinsep Street.  Police were alerted to the incident at 12.40am and upon arriving at the scene, officers spotted two injured men.  Preliminary investigations revealed that the two men,…

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SAN FRANCISCO/AUSTIN, Texas : Elon Musk’s new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles — rather than springing for all-new models — follows the playbook of Tesla’s old-school Detroit rivals, as some Tesla investors and analysts see it.The shift toward incremental improvement, mirroring a…

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