Saudi Arabia's $500 billion mega-project NEOM just wrapped up a two-day charm offensive in Hong Kong to seek investors and partners—but top executives did not address reports of the initiative being scaled back.

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Under mulberry trees at a #bee farm in Taipei's suburbs, students watched intently as instructor Tsai Ming-hsien wafted smoke over a hive box, explaining to aspiring apiarists how to keep the insects happy in an urban setting. #Taiwan
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Graphic charting Hong Kong and Taiwan respondents to PEW survey on preferred method of governance.

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Graphic: Nicholas Shearman/AFP.

Horse racing in Macau will soon be history.

But instead of a dignified send-off, racing participants say they are 'depressed' and 'in shock', blaming poor management that—in the words of veteran trainer Joe Lau—left 'the whole house on fire'.

Feature: u.afp.com/5g23🧵

Images from yesterday when Hong Kong lawmakers passed the city's national security law, after a fast-tracked legislative process

📸 by Peter Parks

Pigeons fly over Liberty Square outside the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall on the 77th anniversary of the '228 Incident' in Taipei on Feb. 28, 2024.
#Taiwan

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VIDEO: 🇹🇼 Taiwan firecracker ceremony marks end of Lunar New Year

People throw firecrackers at an effigy of a god in north-western Taiwan, in a ritual intended to bring wealth and good fortune on the final day of #LunarNewYear celebrations

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Lovely photos by I-Hwa Cheng of the Pingxi Lantern Festival in New Taipei City. #Taiwan 🇹🇼

1/ A group of elderly spectators have spent much of their retirement listening to countless bail hearings, trials, verdicts and appeals – many of them related to mass demonstrations in 2019 and the ensuing fallout.

In full: hongkongfp.com/2024/02/13/i-g…

'Our way of life'

Taiwan will vote for a new president on Saturday in an election closely watched across the world, as the new leader will set the course for the democratic island facing growing aggression from China

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VIDEO: 🇹🇼 Taiwan island scarred by China war prepares for key vote

Kinmen residents are preparing to vote in a crucial presidential election that is being watched closely from Beijing to Washington, and whose winner will set democratic Taiwan's course over the next four years