Tag: the buzz
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The Buzz | China human rights campaigner Harry Wu dies
Harry Wu, a former political prisoner who dedicated his later life to exposing abuses in China’s brutal prison labor camp system, has died. He was 79. Wu died yesterday (Macau time) ... -
The Buzz | Walt Disney cruise ship rescues fugitives off coast of Cuba
A Walt Disney Co. cruise ship has rescued three fugitives off the coast of Cuba who were wanted in New Orleans. U.S. Marshal Amos Rojas Jr. ... -
The Buzz | Painting looted by Nazis is coming to auction in NYC
A 17th century Dutch painting looted by the Nazis and recovered by the Monuments Men is going to auction. Sotheby’s is offering Gabriel Metsu’s “An Officer ... -
The Buzz | China warns citizens of risks tied to buying Hong Kong insurance
China warned residents of risks connected with buying insurance products in Hong Kong after previously tightening restrictions on such purchases as part of efforts to control ... -
The Buzz | Leibovitz images mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday
Queen Elizabeth II is surrounded by young grandchildren and great- grandchildren in 90th birthday portraits by photographer Annie Leibovitz. One of the images, released yesterday by ... -
The Buzz | Museum gets only known film of Louis Armstrong in studio
The Louis Armstrong House Museum has acquired the only known film of the jazz great in a recording studio after it was discovered in a storage ... -
The Buzz | Taiwan protests ejection from OECD steel talks
Taiwan says its delegation was ejected from a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s steel committee after China complained, part of an apparent hardening ... -
The Buzz | Brazil: Rousseff loses lower house impeachment vote
Parliament in Brazil yesterday has voted to start impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff over charges of manipulating government accounts. The “yes” camp comfortably won the ... -
The Buzz | Kenya shocks Fiji to win Singapore Sevens
Kenya shocked Fiji 30-7 in the final of the Singapore Rugby Sevens yesterday to claim its first World Series title. Collins Injera scored two of six ... -
The Buzz | China pulls license of prominent rights lawyer
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been disbarred, a further step in what rights groups call a relentless crackdown by Beijing on efforts to ... -
The Buzz | US troops, Philippine police in bar brawl face sanctions
American troops involved in a bar brawl with Filipino policemen face possible disciplinary sanctions in an incident earlier this month that the Philippine military says has ... -
The Buzz | Turtle smuggler from Canada faces sentence in US court
Prosecutors in Michigan are seeking a five-year prison sentence for a Canadian man who says he smuggled more than 1,000 turtles to China to help pay for his ... -
The Buzz | Harry Potter: GCHQ ‘intervened over ‘Half-Blood Prince’ leak’
GCHQ, the UK’s surveillance agency, intervened to help prevent the sixth Harry Potter installment leaking online, the book’s publisher has said. Bloomsbury’s Nigel Newton said GCHQ ... -
The Buzz | Hong Kong teen democracy activist forms new political party
Hong Kong teen activist Joshua Wong yesterday unveiled a new political party that plans to field candidates in upcoming elections, marking the next step in the ... -
The Buzz | Chinese writer Cao wins international children’s book prize
Chinese author Cao Wenxuan and German illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner have been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize for children’s literature. The biennial awards were announced ... -
The Buzz | Panama Papers: Leak firm Mossack Fonseca files hacking complaint
A partner at Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm at the heart of a huge leak of confidential financial data, says it was the victim of ... -
The Buzz | Thailand seizes 87 African ivory tusks worth USD800,000
Officials in Thailand say they seized 315 kilograms of African elephant tusks worth an estimated USD800,000 at Bangkok’s international airport. Thai Customs said that the haul ... -
The Buzz | ATM not crazy: April’s fooling around
As our readers might know by now, the news we published on the back page of our Friday edition (April 1, “ATM gone crazy, people pocket ... -
The Buzz | ATM gone crazy, people pocket thousands
A street ATM machine downtown started to spit out HKD1,000 bills last night after a customer used it to withdraw three thousand Hong Kong dollars. Bystanders, ... -
The Buzz | Rockets, Pelicans to play two preseason games in China
The Houston Rockets will return to China next fall to play two preseason games against the New Orleans Pelicans. The teams will play Oct. 9 in ... -
The Buzz | Archaeologists digging at Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston
Archeologists in Boston are digging at a boyhood home of Malcolm X in an effort to uncover more about the slain black rights activist’s early life. ... -
The Buzz | Gongbei Customs auctions off smuggled gold
Gongbei Customs will hold an auction for 30 kg of smuggled gold today. There will be 30 gold items up for bidding. Two years ago, Gongbei ... -
The Buzz | USD2.8 billion bank rescue hurts Portuguese budget deficit
Rescuing a bank has proved costly for Portugal’s efforts to balance its books, with the National Statistics Institute estimating the country’s 2015 budget deficit at 4.4 ... -
The Buzz | US elections: Cruz tries to entice Kasich to drop out of race
Ted Cruz is suggesting he’d find a place for Republican rival John Kasich in his future administration if Kasich agrees to drop out of the presidential ... -
The Buzz | Boardwalk despair: Atlantic City mayor warns of shutdown amid push for state rescue
Atlantic City’s mayor said workers won’t be paid and non-essential services will be shut down for about a month beginning April 8 as the distressed gaming ... -
The Buzz | Marriott wins over Starwood with revised buyout bid
Starwood is taking a revised buyout bid from Marriott, three days after the hotel called off their deal in favor of an offer from a group ... -
The Buzz | Online lodging service Airbnb opens Cuba listings to world
The Obama administration has given San Francisco-based online lodging service Airbnb a special license allowing travelers from around the world to book stays in private homes ... -
The Buzz | Trump campaign challenging comics to think outside the box
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is far from ordinary, and late-night television humorists are pushing boundaries in order to keep up. The most memorable Trump-inspired comedy of ... -
The Buzz | Denmark’s TV2 channel opens office in Syrian capital
Denmark’s TV2 broadcaster says it has opened an office in Damascus, claiming to be the only western media to do so. Mikkel Hertz, news director of ... -
The Buzz | Chinese company to resume work on Sri Lankan port city
A Chinese company said yesterday it will resume construction of a USD1.5 billion port city project in Sri Lanka, about a year after it was suspended because ... -
The Buzz | Wrong character: Official media typo calls President Xi Jinping the ‘last leader’
China’s state news agency has had to issue a correction after it referred to President Xi Jinping as “China’s last leader”, an apparent copyediting error, BBC ... -
The Buzz | Polls: New Spain election wouldn’t resolve stalemate
Polls suggest that if Spain were to hold new elections no party would obtain a majority and negotiations for a coalition government would continue as now ... -
The Buzz | Swiss arrest 15 suspected members of Italian crime syndicate
Swiss authorities have arrested 15 people sought by neighboring Italy as suspected members of the ‘ndrangheta organized crime syndicate. The Federal Office of Justice said the ... -
The Buzz | American company bungled Ebola response
An Associated Press investigation has found that an American company that bills itself as a pioneer in identifying emerging epidemics made a series of costly mistakes ... -
The Buzz | Woman dies in elevator with power improperly cut off
The discovery of a woman’s corpse in an elevator in the Chinese city of Xi’an has led to the detention of an elevator maintenance crew who ...
