Pictured here are residential buildings developed by Country Garden Holdings Co. in Baoding, Hebei province, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Two years after Evergrande’s debt troubles, worries about China’s real estate sector are coming to the forefront again. Country Garden, one of the largest non-state-owned
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The Will Rogers Picture Pioneers Foundation is holding a screening of Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back on Aug. 30, 7PM at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood to raise funds for its charity. The non-profit provides support to a multitude of national health and social service programs, as well as financial assistance to members of
by Regina Avalos, August 4, 2023 (Photo: NBC) Stanley Hudson from The Office isn’t getting a spin-off after all. In 2020, actor Leslie David Baker started a Kickstarter campaign for the spin-off series and raised $336,451 from 1,640 donations. Baker played Stanley Hudson, the grumpy and disgruntled paper salesman, on all nine seasons of the
TAMPA, Fla. — Small satellite operator Lynk Global has started initial direct-to-device services in a small part of the Cook Islands in its second commercial launch with a local telco. Phones on mobile operator Vodafone Cook Islands’ network can now periodically send and receive text messages via Lynk’s satellites around Manuae, an uninhabited island in
Vivo Pad Air has been officially introduced in China by the company’s vice president Jia Jingdong on Weibo. The tablet has been announced to arrive in three colour options. The device’s specifications and other details have also been confirmed. It weighs only 530 grams and packs an 8,500mAh battery with 44W fast charging support. The
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at Arcosa, a wind tower manufacturing facility, in Belen, New Mexico, August 9, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Joe Biden visited a former Solo cup factory that has been renovated into a wind tower plant in Belen, New Mexico on Wednesday, where he hailed his
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild walk the picket line outside of Disney Studios in Burbank, California, on July 18, 2023. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images When the markets close Wednesday, all eyes will be on Bob
Robbie Robertson, songwriter and lead guitarist for legendary rock group The Band, is dead … TMZ has confirmed. Sources close to Robbie tell us he died Wednesday in Los Angeles after battling prostate cancer for about a year. We’re told he’d been doing ok, recently, but on Tuesday he told his wife he wasn’t feeling
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivers remarks at the 2023 Christians United for Israel summit on July 17, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Attorneys for Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the Florida governor “welcomes Disney‘s surrender” on key allegations
To promote the new maternity line from her intimates brand Savage X Fenty, Rihanna enlisted the help of her one-year-old son. New campaign photos captured the superstar—who is pregnant with her second child with boyfriend A$AP Rocky—cradling baby RZA in her arms while wearing a black triangle bralette from the maternity line. The bra comes
When For All Mankind Season 4 gets underway on Apple TV+, viewers will see less of one of its most popular stars. TV Line reports that Jodi Balfour is bowing out of the alt-history drama as a series regular. Balfour, who plays Ellen, is expected to appear in some capacity. The series has said goodbye
Wondering how to make a lasting impression? For many, broadening charisma can be a challenge, leaving them in search of innovative solutions — this is where pheromone perfumes come into play, often promising to unlock heightened attraction. So, do pheromone perfumes work? While they have garnered attention as a potential aid in interpersonal relations, science
Sinéad O’Connor Was Right All Along The Shape of Progress O Sinéad—you are dead & the headlines beside you are all interest rate increases & thermal hellscapes. I am new to the prairie but even the New York Times thinks Duluth is the place to be in the Anthropocene; climate-proof, they dubbed it: ample freshwater
Good vibrations: the new sensing system uses interactions between photons and phonons to determine several properties of an optical fibre. (Courtesy: iStock/Gregory DUBUS) Researchers in China have shown how measurements of strain, temperature and vibration can be made simultaneously on a single optical fibre. This could be used to create a fibre-based system to monitor
In the following tribute, Yousef Khanfar pens a letter to the eminent scholar Salma Khadra Jayyusi, laureate of the 2021 Palestine Prize for Literature, who passed away on April 20, 2023. Dear Salma, From a native son of Palestine to a native daughter of Palestine, I am writing to you this letter on May 15,
In this article LYFT PENN AXON DKNG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Rick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprises. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Wednesday. WeWork — The stock plunged 25.7% after WeWork said in an SEC filing that there’s doubt about the company’s ability to keep
AMC Entertainment’s CEO Adam Aron warned that the chain risks financial peril if it can’t raise fresh cash as needed while exhibition continues its post-Covid recovery amid Hollywood strikes. The world’s biggest move chain saw second-quarter earnings surge, sales jump and things looked great in movieland with the three months ended in June and the
LOGAN, Utah – The National Reconnaissance Office is eager to work with partners who are developing advanced technology for satellites and ground systems. “We’re eager to collaborate with industry and academia in advancing these capabilities and expanding our future architecture,” U.S. Space Force Col. Matt Allen, NRO Advanced Systems and Technology (AS&T) deputy director, said