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<h1>i/news</h1>
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<b>Bitcoin ETFs Win SEC Approval, Broadening Crypto Access</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/01/10/bitcoin-etfs-win-sec-approval-bringing-easier-access-to-biggest-cryptocurrency/">coindesk.com</a> ,
11 January 2024</i><br>
The asset management industry has tried launching a spot bitcoin ETF for over a decade. Hopes are high they will lure more investors into crypto.<br><br>
<i>** 11/1/2024 : okchai & lspei 20th wedding anniversary, 最重要一家人身心健康！**</i>
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<b>Singapore crosses record 3 billion gross tonnage mark in ship arrivals</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/singapore-port-record-3-billion-gross-tonnage-ship-arrivals-2023-mpa-4011006">channelnewsasia.com</a> ,
26 December 2023</i><br>
The Port of Singapore reached 1 billion GT in 2004 and 2 billion GT in 2011.
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<b>Li Keqiang 李克強 : 3 July 1955 - 27 October 2023, aged 68.</b><br>
<a target="_top" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang"><img border="0" src="/likeqiang"></a><br>
<font size="1"><a target="_tab" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Chinese_Premier_Li_Keqiang_Nov_2014.jpg/330px-Chinese_Premier_Li_Keqiang_Nov_2014.jpg"> Wikipedia</a> / file photo</font><br>
2023年10月27日訊：李克強突然去世，被心髒病，享年68。
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<b>Why are bed bugs so difficult to deal with?</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231018-why-are-bed-bugs-so-difficult-to-deal-with">BBC</a> ,
20 October 2023</i><br>
Bed bugs have recently been found in the seats of Eurostar trains between France and England, amid a high-profile infestation in Paris.
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<b>Ukraine’s special forces use daring raids and distraction tactics in bid to free Crimea</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/europe/crimea-ukraine-raids-jet-skis-intl-cmd/index.html">CNN</a> ,
18 October 2023</i><br>
A swarm of Ukrainian jet skis races across the ocean under pitch black skies, visible only from the infra-red camera of a drone watching from above. They slow down as they approach the shore to avoid detection and hurry onto dry land.<br><br>
“Crimea will be Ukrainian,” one of the men says in video footage seen by CNN after landing, holding a Ukrainian flag.
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<b>Israel-Hamas war: What you need to know in wake of deadly Gaza hospital strike</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-hospital-conflict-palestinians-3854411">ChannelNewsAsia</a> ,
18 October 2023</i><br>
Palestinian officials say the cause was an Israeli air strike, but Israelis Defense Forces blame a misfired rocket by the Palestinian militant group known as Islamic Jihad - which has denied responsibility.
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<b>Asian Games 2023: questions raised over picture of athletes wearing lane numbers 6 and 4</b><br>
<a target="_top" href="https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1200x800/public/d8/images/canvas/2023/10/04/e52b55e7-55be-4953-a9c8-7a55e7d84242_4e385204.jpg"><img border="0" src="/64.jpg"></a><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3236758/asian-games-2023-china-appears-censor-tiananmen-picture-athletes-wearing-6/4-numbers">South China Morning Post</a> ,
4 October 2023</i><br>
Wu Yanni and Lin Yuwei’s lane numbers inadvertently match the dates of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.<br>
Pair pictured hugging after 100m hurdles final, with overseas media claiming it was deleted.
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<b>Marina Ovsyannikova: Anti-war Russian journalist sentenced in absentia</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67003463">BBC</a> ,
5 October 2023</i><br>
Moscow's court has sentenced journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested live on air against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to 8.5 years in jail.
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<b>Is China's economy a 'ticking time bomb'?</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66636403">BBC</a> ,
31 August 2023</i><br>
The past six months has brought a stream of bad news for China's economy: slow growth, record youth unemployment, low foreign investment, weak exports and currency, and a property sector in crisis.<br>
點評：沒有遠見的領導人斷送了經濟持續成長的機遇，到處樹敵短期不利國家但有助獨裁政權倒台，真正以民為本的政體改革是必然的。
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<b>Fukushima: Japan asks China to stop citizens making abusive calls</b><br>
<i><a target="_top" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66632237">BBC</a> ,
28 August 2023</i><br>
Japan has complained to China after local businesses and institutions were inundated with abusive phone calls over the Fukushima plant discharge.<br>
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<b>Milan Kundera: 1 April 1929 - 11 July 2023, aged 94.</b><br>
<a target="_top" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kundera"><img border="0" src="/milankundera"></a><br>
<font size="1"><a target="_tab" href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Milan_Kundera_redux.jpg/330px-Milan_Kundera_redux.jpg"> Wikipedia</a> / file photo</font><br>
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