Hong Kong just won back 'Asia's biggest' tech conference
CNN
Hong Kong has reclaimed its status as the host of a marquee Asian tech conference it lost to Malaysia last year, as organizers cite the city's success in battling the Covid pandemic.
Rise, an annual tech conference whose recent speakers have included executives from Uber (UBER), Alibaba (BABA) and Stripe, said Thursday that it would return to the city next year, with plans to stay for the next five years. Organizers had announced in late 2020 that they would move the event to the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur, saying they wanted to seek opportunities in Southeast Asia's fast-growing tech scene.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
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