Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under security law
CNBC - 48 min 13 sec ago
Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the publisher's headquarters Monday in the highest-profile use yet of the new national security law Beijing imposed on the city in June.
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Trump's big power move leaves workers in limbo
CNN - 1 hour 6 min ago
President Donald Trump's big executive power move ostensibly meant to support laid-off workers and stimulate the economy is already mired in confusion that threatens to leave millions of jobless Americans waiting in vain for help from Washington.
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Twitter 'looking' at a possible TikTok tie-up
BBC - 1 hour 6 min ago
The messaging platform has approached under-fire TikTok about a possible deal, according to sources.
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The latest on the coronavirus pandemic
CNN - 1 hour 6 min ago
The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. In many places, as countries reopen, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. Follow here for the latest.
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Decision time: who will Joe Biden pick as his VP?
SCMP - 2 hours 17 min ago
The week Joe Biden will announce his running mate has finally arrived.Senator Kamala Harris and Susan Rice, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, have emerged as the top contenders. Either one would make history as the first black woman to be a running mate.Biden, who has made it clear earlier he’ll choose a woman as his running mate, was also considering Congresswoman Karen Bass of California, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Congresswoman Val Demings of Florid ...
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Beirut Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters Pelting Stones Near Parliament
NDTV - 2 hours 24 min ago
Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last...
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Aramco Still Aims for $15 Billion Investment in India's Reliance - BNN
Bloomberg - 2 hours 28 min ago
Aramco Still Aims for $15 Billion Investment in India's Reliance BNN
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China inflation rose 2.7 per cent in July, driven by higher food costs
SCMP - 3 hours 26 min ago
China’s inflation rate rose 2.7 per cent in July, up from the 2.5 per cent gain in June, data released on Monday showed.The rising consumer price index (CPI) was slightly worse than the inflation rate of 2.6 per cent expected by analysts.Pressure on China’s manufacturing sector following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, meanwhile, eased slightly in July as the producer price index (PPI), reflecting the prices that factories charge wholesalers for their products, fell 2.4 per cent year ...
Trump says he's open to allowing unemployed to get enhanced benefits without states paying part of the cost
CNN - 4 hours 18 min ago
President Donald Trump opened the door on Sunday to allowing some unemployed Americans to get enhanced unemployment benefits even if the states in which they live won't pay part of the costs.
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Hong Kong national security law: media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on suspicion of collusion, fraud
SCMP - 4 hours 36 min ago
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was arrested early on Monday on suspicion of breaching the city’s new national security law, the Post has learned.Sources said Lai was detained by officers from the new police unit enforcing the security legislation at his residence in Kadoorie Avenue, Ho Man Tin shortly after daybreak.“He was arrested for collusion with a foreign country, uttering seditious words and conspiracy to defraud,” one source told the Post about the founder of the tabloid ...
As coronavirus batters Singapore’s economy, lost jobs loom as long-term headache
SCMP - 5 hours 6 min ago
Philip Leong gets out of bed at 3am every morning to open his food stall in Singapore’s Jurong district. He stands for hours over a sizzling wok, whipping up more than 100 plates of fried vegetarian bee hoon, or vermicelli. The 68-year-old has been doing this back-breaking work for nearly two decades, yet his life as a hawker was not borne of a particular passion for cooking but rather sheer necessity. In 2002, Leong lost his job as a senior engineering assistant at Singapore Technologies…
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Coronavirus: hopes high for a Covid-19 vaccine in early 2021, but that’s only the start of the story, experts say
SCMP - 5 hours 6 min ago
With six Covid-19 vaccine candidates undergoing final clinical trials, initial data about whether they can protect people from the disease is expected to be available in the next two to three months, assuming all goes well.That gives hope to the possibility that a vaccine could hit the market by early next year.A possible concern is that most of the candidates, although using different technologies, have adopted a similar immunology strategy to express the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in the…
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Amid travel standstill, newcomer Greater Bay Airlines seeks Hong Kong approval to take off
SCMP - 5 hours 6 min ago
A new mainland China-backed carrier has applied to Hong Kong’s civil aviation authority to become the city’s fifth passenger airline, in an attempt to loosen the Cathay Pacific Group’s dominance.Greater Bay Airlines is a rare newcomer in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic which has brought international air travel to a standstill, crippling the aviation industry across the world.The Civil Aviation Department confirmed that Greater Bay Airlines Company Limited’s application for an air ope ...
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U.S. Sanctions Hong Kong Chief Lam Over Crackdown - Bloomberg
Bloomberg - 5 hours 52 min ago
U.S. Sanctions Hong Kong Chief Lam Over Crackdown Bloomberg
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China remains a 'bright spark,' says major real estate developer CapitaLand
CNBC - 5 hours 58 min ago
There are "very encouraging signs" in CapitaLand's residential business and retail operations in China, said Andrew Lim, the company's group chief financial officer.
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Life after coronavirus lockdown in Nigeria’s Chinatown
SCMP - 7 hours 6 min ago
Nigerian and Chinese flags flutter in the morning breeze atop of the rampart of Chinatown in the city of Lagos. It’s a tall wall, modelled after the medieval Great Wall of China, painted red and fortified by bricks.Its gate is half open, with three security officers with handheld thermometers checking temperatures of traders and customers coming in. Beside the gate, a water bucket, a bottle of hand sanitiser and liquid soap serve for routine handwashing while a few Chinese mingle in a terrace ...
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Israeli jeweller claims to be working on ‘world’s most expensive’ coronavirus mask for Chinese buyer in the US
SCMP - 7 hours 44 min ago
An Israeli jewellery company is working on what it says will be the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million.The 18-karat white gold mask will be decorated with 3,600 white and black diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters at the request of the buyer, said designer Isaac Levy.Levy, owner of the Yvel company, said the buyer had two other demands: that it be completed by the end of the year, and that it would be the ...
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Amazon reportedly discussing using former J.C. Penney and Sears stores as fulfillment centers
CNBC - 10 hours 32 min ago
The Sears and J.C. Penney locations could give Amazon more fulfillment center space, closer to customers, where delivery drivers could come unload and pick up packages.
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Tata Consumer’s shares re-rate after Jun qtr; valuations match Britannia’s - Livemint
Bloomberg - 12 hours 48 min ago
Tata Consumer’s shares re-rate after Jun qtr; valuations match Britannia’s Livemint
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US Crosses 5-Million Coronavirus Cases: Report
NDTV - 13 hours 42 min ago
The United States has registered over five million cases in the coronavirus pandemic, Johns Hopkins University's real-time tally showed Sunday, as well as over 162,000 deaths as the country struggles...
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Three Risks Weighing on Emerging Markets All Start With T - BloombergQuint
Bloomberg - 14 hours 18 min ago
Three Risks Weighing on Emerging Markets All Start With T BloombergQuint
Netflix should buy TikTok if Microsoft can't close a deal
CNBC - 15 hours 38 min ago
Why Netflix should try to buy TikTok, especially it can buy its global operations, if Microsoft can't close a deal with the U.S. government.
Housing market skirts coronavirus crisis as sellers use 3D virtual tours to find eager buyers
CNBC - 16 hours 6 min ago
Even with widespread economic shutdowns, Zillow and Redfin are trading at record highs and Matterport is seeing surging growth as technology powers home sales.
Wall Street's top analysts are betting on stocks like GoDaddy and Carvana to beat the market
CNBC - 16 hours 9 min ago
CNBC used TipRanks analyst ranking service to pinpoint Wall Street's best-performing stocks, like GoDaddy and Carvana.
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Saudi Aramco profit drops 50% for first half of the year as pandemic batters oil price
CNBC - 21 hours 48 min ago
The financial results for the second quarter reflect the biggest shock to global energy markets in decades.
COMMENTARY: Financial Post - Oil prices rise 1% on Saudi Aramco’s upbeat demand view, Iraq output cut - 1 hour 26 min ago
Coronavirus: African nations battle corruption, profiteering linked to PPE, test kits
SCMP - 22 hours 6 min ago
African companies and individuals have been accused of profiteering during the Covid-19 pandemic, as reports emerge that health workers are being infected with the coronavirus because of a lack of suitable protective gear.African countries have received billions of dollars in fresh loans from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other nations, including China. They have also sought debt relief from the Group of 20 to help them weather the storm.But allegations of corruption are…
Saudi Arabia Turns Off America’s Oil Taps Again - Yahoo Finance
Bloomberg - 22 hours 58 min ago
Saudi Arabia Turns Off America’s Oil Taps Again Yahoo Finance
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Plastic pollution plagues Southeast Asia amid Covid-19 lockdowns
SCMP - 23 hours 6 min ago
Adam Reza is among those for whom environmental awareness took a back seat to health concerns during Malaysia’s national lockdown earlier this year to curb the spread of Covid-19. Despite making a conscious effort to be mindful, he estimates his use of plastics increased by up to 80 per cent as people were confined indoors for more than 90 days as the pandemic raged.“I’m not exactly a green conscious guy, but before the lockdown I did make a conscious effort to be mindful,” said manageme ...
CNBC - 48 min 13 sec ago
Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the publisher's headquarters Monday in the highest-profile use yet of the new national security law Beijing imposed on the city in June.
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Trump's big power move leaves workers in limbo
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Twitter 'looking' at a possible TikTok tie-up
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The latest on the coronavirus pandemic
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Decision time: who will Joe Biden pick as his VP?
SCMP - 2 hours 17 min ago
The week Joe Biden will announce his running mate has finally arrived.Senator Kamala Harris and Susan Rice, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, have emerged as the top contenders. Either one would make history as the first black woman to be a running mate.Biden, who has made it clear earlier he’ll choose a woman as his running mate, was also considering Congresswoman Karen Bass of California, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Congresswoman Val Demings of Florid ...
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Beirut Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters Pelting Stones Near Parliament
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Lebanese police fired tear gas to try to disperse rock-throwing protesters blocking a road near parliament in Beirut on Sunday in a second day of anti-government demonstrations triggered by last...
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Aramco Still Aims for $15 Billion Investment in India's Reliance - BNN
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China inflation rose 2.7 per cent in July, driven by higher food costsSCMP - 3 hours 26 min ago
China’s inflation rate rose 2.7 per cent in July, up from the 2.5 per cent gain in June, data released on Monday showed.The rising consumer price index (CPI) was slightly worse than the inflation rate of 2.6 per cent expected by analysts.Pressure on China’s manufacturing sector following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, meanwhile, eased slightly in July as the producer price index (PPI), reflecting the prices that factories charge wholesalers for their products, fell 2.4 per cent year ...
Trump says he's open to allowing unemployed to get enhanced benefits without states paying part of the cost
CNN - 4 hours 18 min ago
President Donald Trump opened the door on Sunday to allowing some unemployed Americans to get enhanced unemployment benefits even if the states in which they live won't pay part of the costs.
Hong Kong national security law: media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on suspicion of collusion, fraud
SCMP - 4 hours 36 min ago
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was arrested early on Monday on suspicion of breaching the city’s new national security law, the Post has learned.Sources said Lai was detained by officers from the new police unit enforcing the security legislation at his residence in Kadoorie Avenue, Ho Man Tin shortly after daybreak.“He was arrested for collusion with a foreign country, uttering seditious words and conspiracy to defraud,” one source told the Post about the founder of the tabloid ...
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As coronavirus batters Singapore’s economy, lost jobs loom as long-term headacheSCMP - 5 hours 6 min ago
Philip Leong gets out of bed at 3am every morning to open his food stall in Singapore’s Jurong district. He stands for hours over a sizzling wok, whipping up more than 100 plates of fried vegetarian bee hoon, or vermicelli. The 68-year-old has been doing this back-breaking work for nearly two decades, yet his life as a hawker was not borne of a particular passion for cooking but rather sheer necessity. In 2002, Leong lost his job as a senior engineering assistant at Singapore Technologies…
Coronavirus: hopes high for a Covid-19 vaccine in early 2021, but that’s only the start of the story, experts say
SCMP - 5 hours 6 min ago
With six Covid-19 vaccine candidates undergoing final clinical trials, initial data about whether they can protect people from the disease is expected to be available in the next two to three months, assuming all goes well.That gives hope to the possibility that a vaccine could hit the market by early next year.A possible concern is that most of the candidates, although using different technologies, have adopted a similar immunology strategy to express the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in the…
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A new mainland China-backed carrier has applied to Hong Kong’s civil aviation authority to become the city’s fifth passenger airline, in an attempt to loosen the Cathay Pacific Group’s dominance.Greater Bay Airlines is a rare newcomer in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic which has brought international air travel to a standstill, crippling the aviation industry across the world.The Civil Aviation Department confirmed that Greater Bay Airlines Company Limited’s application for an air ope ...
U.S. Sanctions Hong Kong Chief Lam Over Crackdown - Bloomberg
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Life after coronavirus lockdown in Nigeria’s Chinatown
SCMP - 7 hours 6 min ago
Nigerian and Chinese flags flutter in the morning breeze atop of the rampart of Chinatown in the city of Lagos. It’s a tall wall, modelled after the medieval Great Wall of China, painted red and fortified by bricks.Its gate is half open, with three security officers with handheld thermometers checking temperatures of traders and customers coming in. Beside the gate, a water bucket, a bottle of hand sanitiser and liquid soap serve for routine handwashing while a few Chinese mingle in a terrace ...
Israeli jeweller claims to be working on ‘world’s most expensive’ coronavirus mask for Chinese buyer in the US
SCMP - 7 hours 44 min ago
An Israeli jewellery company is working on what it says will be the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million.The 18-karat white gold mask will be decorated with 3,600 white and black diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters at the request of the buyer, said designer Isaac Levy.Levy, owner of the Yvel company, said the buyer had two other demands: that it be completed by the end of the year, and that it would be the ...
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Amazon reportedly discussing using former J.C. Penney and Sears stores as fulfillment centers
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The Sears and J.C. Penney locations could give Amazon more fulfillment center space, closer to customers, where delivery drivers could come unload and pick up packages.
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Tata Consumer’s shares re-rate after Jun qtr; valuations match Britannia’s - Livemint
Bloomberg - 12 hours 48 min ago
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US Crosses 5-Million Coronavirus Cases: Report
NDTV - 13 hours 42 min ago
The United States has registered over five million cases in the coronavirus pandemic, Johns Hopkins University's real-time tally showed Sunday, as well as over 162,000 deaths as the country struggles...
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Netflix should buy TikTok if Microsoft can't close a deal
CNBC - 15 hours 38 min ago
Why Netflix should try to buy TikTok, especially it can buy its global operations, if Microsoft can't close a deal with the U.S. government.
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Saudi Aramco profit drops 50% for first half of the year as pandemic batters oil priceCNBC - 21 hours 48 min ago
The financial results for the second quarter reflect the biggest shock to global energy markets in decades.
Coronavirus: African nations battle corruption, profiteering linked to PPE, test kits
SCMP - 22 hours 6 min ago
African companies and individuals have been accused of profiteering during the Covid-19 pandemic, as reports emerge that health workers are being infected with the coronavirus because of a lack of suitable protective gear.African countries have received billions of dollars in fresh loans from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other nations, including China. They have also sought debt relief from the Group of 20 to help them weather the storm.But allegations of corruption are…
Saudi Arabia Turns Off America’s Oil Taps Again - Yahoo Finance
Bloomberg - 22 hours 58 min ago
Saudi Arabia Turns Off America’s Oil Taps Again Yahoo Finance
Plastic pollution plagues Southeast Asia amid Covid-19 lockdowns
SCMP - 23 hours 6 min ago
Adam Reza is among those for whom environmental awareness took a back seat to health concerns during Malaysia’s national lockdown earlier this year to curb the spread of Covid-19. Despite making a conscious effort to be mindful, he estimates his use of plastics increased by up to 80 per cent as people were confined indoors for more than 90 days as the pandemic raged.“I’m not exactly a green conscious guy, but before the lockdown I did make a conscious effort to be mindful,” said manageme ...