Tag: the buzz
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The Buzz | Chinese fintech could shatter records with $35B share offer
The world’s largest fintech company, China’s Ant Group, will try to raise nearly $35 billion in a massive public offering of stock that would shatter records. ... -
The Buzz | Banksy artwork sells for almost $10 million at auction
Banksy’s playful take on a famous Impressionist painting has sold at auction for 7.6 million pounds ($9.8 million), the second-highest price ever paid for a work ... -
The Buzz | Pope endorses same-sex civil unions in new documentary film
Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which premiered yesterday at the Rome ... -
The Buzz | Nokia to build moon’s first 4G cell network for NASA program
Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon. The Finnish telecommunications equipment maker said yesterday [Macau ... -
Plan to retrieve Titanic radio spurs debate on human remains
People have been diving to the Titanic’s wreck for 35 years. No one has found human remains, according to the company that owns the salvage rights. ... -
The Buzz | Record avalanche of early votes transforms the 2020 election
More than 22 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a ... -
The Buzz | China tracks US Navy ship’s passage through Taiwan Strait
China says it tracked a U.S. Navy warship as it passed through the Taiwan Strait and has its forces in the area on high alert, as ... -
The Buzz | Beijing is buying up record chunks of Japan’s debt mountain
China went on a record-buying spree of Japanese bonds over the summer months, snapping up $20.9 billion of the low-yielding debt to spur talk that it’s ... -
The Buzz | Detained Canadians in China get rare consular access
The Canadian government said Saturday that China granted consular access to two detained Canadians in China for the first time since January. The Global Affairs department ... -
The Buzz | Jazz festival at D2 Club kicks off tonight
A two-night jazz festival will kick off tonight at D2 Club featuring over 20 artists that will perform an eclectic musical selection ranging from well-known jazz ... -
The Buzz | Amid rising infections, Israeli ultra-Orthodox defy lockdown
After a revered ultra-Orthodox rabbi died this week from COVID-19, Israeli police thought they had worked out an arrangement with his followers to allow a small, ... -
The Buzz | Three win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton won the Nobel Prize for medicine yesterday for their discovery of the hepatitis ... -
The Buzz | Thailand prepares to receive first group of foreign tourists from China, Scandinavia
Preparations have begun for Thailand to receive its first group of foreign tourists since scheduled commercial passenger flights into the country were halted in April due ... -
The Buzz | Majority of Hong Kong democrats plan to remain in office
A majority of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers plan to remain in office after China’s decision to extend their terms without a planned election. Sixteen of 23 ... -
The Buzz | Amazon to kick off holiday shopping with October Prime Day
Amazon is aiming to kickstart the holiday shopping season early this year. The company is holding its annual Prime Day over two days in October this ... -
The Buzz | China blasts US House bill, denies forced labor in Xinjiang
China lashed out at the passage of a bill by the U.S. House of Representatives that threatens sanctions over the alleged use of forced labor in ... -
The Buzz | China: Former SOE chairman Ren sentenced to 18 years in graft case
The former chairman of a state-owned real estate company was sentenced to 18 years in prison yesterday on corruption charges, a court announced. Ren Zhiqiang, who ... -
The Buzz | UK science advisers warn of darker Covid-19 days ahead
Britain’s top medical advisers yesterday painted a grim picture of exponential growth in illness and death if nothing is done to control the second wave of ... -
The Buzz | Coronavirus-wary Bavarians kick off toned-down Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest celebrations got underway yesterday in Munich with the traditional tapping of a keg and the cry of “O’zapft is!” — “It’s tapped!” — but this ... -
The Buzz | WHO leader in Europe warns of virus spread again
The European head for the World Health Organization is warning of “alarming rates of transmission” of the coronavirus in parts of the continent. Dr. Hans Kluge ... -
The Buzz | Report finds global economic outlook not as bad as expected
The global economy is not doing as bad as previously expected, especially in the United States and China, but has still suffered an unprecedented drop due ... -
The Buzz | World isn’t meeting biodiversity goals, UN report finds
A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats like coral reefs and tropical forests in more ... -
The Buzz | Major economies shrink amid Covid-19 pandemic
A global development agency said the world’s 20 major industrialized nations have seen their economies shrink in an unprecedented manner between April and June amid the ... -
The Buzz | Twitter to label or remove misleading claims on vote results
Twitter said that starting this week it will label or remove misleading claims that try to undermine public confidence in elections. The policy will apply to ... -
The Buzz | Official claims pressure to alter US Homeland Security intel
A Department of Homeland Security official said in a whistleblower complaint that he was pressured by more senior officials to suppress facts in intelligence reports that ... -
The Buzz | Key European Union leaders to hold videoconference with Xi Jinping
Key European Union leaders have a video conference scheduled with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week to discuss issues ranging from climate change to the coronavirus ... -
The Buzz | China tension may hit half of Australia’s benchmark stock index
The ongoing deterioration of Australia’s relationship with its largest trading partner is seen impacting banks, consumer firms and tourism-related stocks that make up almost half the ... -
The Buzz | Hospital: Russia’s Alexei Navalny out of coma, is responsive
Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma, the German hospital treating him said yesterday. ... -
The Buzz | Typhoon unleashes rain, strong winds in southern Japan
The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week unleashed fierce winds and rain on southern islands yesterday, blowing off rooftops and leaving homes without ... -
The Buzz | Australia’s economy takes sharpest dive since the 1930s
Australia’s economy suffered its sharpest economic contraction since the Great Depression due to the pandemic, with data released yesterday confirming the country is in its first ... -
The Buzz | Portugal Communist Party gets OK for 16,500 people at event
Health authorities in Portugal are allowing the country’s Communist Party to let 16,500 people into its annual open-air festival next weekend – an unusually high number ... -
The Buzz | Nearly 500K register for free tests in Hong Kong
Hong Kong authorities say nearly half a million people have registered for a free universal coronavirus testing program that is due to begin today. Residents registering ... -
The Buzz | Zimbabwe investigates mysterious deaths of 11 elephants
Zimbabwe’s parks authorities are investigating the death of 11 elephants in a forest in the west of the country, a parks spokesman said yesterday. The carcasses ... -
The Buzz | Report: China fires ‘carrier killer’ missile in disputed sea
China’s military test-fired two missiles into the South China Sea, including a “carrier killer” military analysts suggest might have been developed to attack U.S. forces, a ... -
The Buzz | Jacob Blake: Two shot dead in third night of Wisconsin unrest
Two people have been killed and one injured during a third night of unrest in the US city of Kenosha, sparked by the police shooting of ...
