Monthly Archives: February 2019
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Musk says USD500m enough to get Shanghai production running
40 Elon Musk told investors Tesla Inc. won’t incur a heavy financial burden to get production up and running in its first overseas factory, seeking to ... -
Samsung quarterly operating profit fell on slower demand
Samsung Electronics Co. has posted a near-30 percent drop in operating profit for the last quarter after seeing slowing global demand for its memory chips and ... -
Spain’s economy remains bright spot amid Euro-area slowdown
Spain remained an economic bright spot in the euro zone in late 2018 even though the country, like the rest of the region, faces a weaker ... -
Dire Strait | Xi’s tough talk on Taiwan backfires, as Tsai support surges
Chinese President Xi Jinping sought to push Taiwanese closer to unification with a new year speech mixing carrots and sticks. That hasn’t panned out. Instead, his ... -
Chinese leader says 2022 Winter Games will be green, inclusive, open
Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country is well on track to deliver a “spectacular” 2022 Winter Olympic Games. China’s government was firmly committed to staging ... -
Economy | Manufacturing improves but activity sluggish
China’s manufacturing improved in January but activity was sluggish, a survey showed yesterday, as U.S. and Chinese negotiators wrangled in Washington over a tariff war. A ... -
Australian rugby league team proud of Huawei sponsorship
An Australian rugby league team wants to continue Huawei’s longest-ever sports sponsorship despite the Chinese communication giant’s ban from Australia’s 5G networks and legal wrangle with ... -
Beijing appeals to US to accept its technology progress
China urged Washington yesterday to accept its industrial development after U.S. intelligence officials said Beijing steals or copies foreign technology, as the two sides prepared for ... -
Bangladesh | Thousands fired after garment industry protest
More than 5,000 Bangladesh workers who demanded higher wages have been fired by factory owners, and hundreds face police charges in the world’s second-largest garment export ... -
Thailand | Bangkok flies drones, warns of hardships in bad air battle
A fleet of drones, trucks and small planes sprayed water to try to reduce air pollution around Bangkok yesterday while the city’s governor invited critics to brainstorm ... -
Middle East | Mariah Carey shakes off boycott calls for her Saudi concert
Mariah Carey, one of the world’s most celebrated artists, is performing in Saudi Arabia today [Macau time] for the first time, but there’s a growing chorus ... -
Italy | Country slides into recession, darkening outlook for Europe
Italy has fallen back into recession, intensifying concerns about the 19-country eurozone economy and a possible flare-up in the debt market jitters that have haunted the ... -
This Day in History | 2003 Columbia shuttle disintegrates killing seven
The US space shuttle Columbia has broken up as it re- entered the Earth’s atmosphere killing all seven astronauts on board. This is the first time ... -
Offbeat | Canada condemns Netflix for using rail disaster images
Canada’s Parliament passed a motion this week saying Netflix should compensate the people of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, for using footage of the 2013 rail disaster in the post-apocalyptic survival ... -
Football | Asian Cup organizers review UAE complaint on Qatar players
Throwing Qatar’s appearance in the Asian Cup final in doubt, organizers are investigating a complaint by the United Arab Emirates about the eligibility of two Qatar ... -
Rugby | Ntamack & Williams to make 6N debuts in France vs Wales
Saturday, 04:00am France v Wales H 2.05, D 26, A 2.1 Two players with unpredictability and flair will make their Six Nations debuts for France and ... -
The Buzz | Private jet carrying comedian makes emergency landing at RDU
A private jet carrying a comedian who had just performed in North Carolina had to make an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. News outlets cite ... -
USA | Deep freeze kills eight, disruptions persist
The painfully cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze was expected to ease yesterday, though temperatures could still tumble ... -
World Briefs
INDONESIA’s volatile Mount Merapi volcano on the island of Java has unleashed a river of lava that flowed 1,400 meters down its slopes. BANGLADESH More than 5,000 ... -
Bizcuits | Ethnocentrism clouds analysis
Although flagged in gaming analyst reports back in February 2018, the public announcement of a reshuffling of the control of the Stanley Ho family gaming empire ... -
Friday, February 1, 2019 – edition no. 3222
* Unlawful assembly accusation | Chiang wins appeal, may be absolved * Xi’s tough talk on Taiwan backfires, as Tsai support surges * ‘Secret meetings’ in ... -
The Old Man and the Play
• More than 60 years after the film adaptation, a stage version of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ premieres today in Pittsburgh as promised to Hemingway, ... -
‘Arctic’ is a solid, and solitary, survival tale
The premise for “Arctic” is so simple it’s almost silly to describe: Stranded man tries to survive. It’s also been done more than a few times ... -
Ruffin’s debut novel is challenging, thought-provoking
A fear-driven, racially charged world is the land in which the narrator of “We Cast a Shadow” lives. Half the black community — and eight out ... -
Frances Cone delivers dreampop with a purpose
Frances Cone’s new album “Late Riser” is a brilliant work of modern melancholia that finds the sweet spot between soothing and soaring. Call it dreampop with ... -
News of the World | Old friend keeps word to Hemingway
When the 1958 film adaptation of “The Old Man and the Sea” hit theaters, Ernest Hemingway happened to be in New York City to watch the ... -
The Stateside Spirit IV
(Continued from “The Stateside Spirit III” on 25 January 2019) Tennessee whiskey is, in a nutshell, a regional style of Bourbon whiskey. Tennessee whiskey is subject ... -
Travelog | Weird Paris debut of immersive Stalinist reality show DAU
Imagine setting aside two years of your life to work, sleep and procreate in a fake Stalinist physics lab. A place where secret police or hidden ...
