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China Tracks Vessel with Satellite; Hong Kong Faces Soaring Fuel Prices

4/17/2026

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China released radar images of the vessel Towa Maru, marking the first long-term tracking of a maritime target by a geosynchronous orbit satellite.
A team from Peking University announced that their artificial intelligence framework solved a decade-old mathematical problem.
Hong Kong faces the highest petrol and diesel prices globally, driven by the Middle East war, which is expected to trigger imported inflation and raise prices of goods and services.

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China released radar images of the vessel Towa Maru, marking the first long-term tracking of a maritime target by a geosynchronous orbit satellite.
A team from Peking University announced that their artificial intelligence framework solved a decade-old mathematical problem.
Hong Kong faces the highest petrol and diesel prices globally, driven by the Middle East war, which is expected to trigger imported inflation and raise prices of goods and services.