Shenzhen. Photo: VCG Shao Gang, chairman of Shenzhen HTI Group Co. Ltd., died unexpectedly in late February, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. He was 54. Shao had been on medical leave for a few weeks and was hospitalized for treatment for depression, the people told Caixin. Surveillance footage from the day of the incident showed him remaining inside his residential compl...
Shenzhen. Photo: VCG Shao Gang, chairman of Shenzhen HTI Group Co. Ltd., died unexpectedly in late February, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. He was 54. Shao had been on medical leave for a few weeks and was hospitalized for treatment for depression, the people told Caixin. Surveillance footage from the day of the incident showed him remaining inside his residential complex for roughly two hours starting after 4 a.m., before falling from an 18th-floor platform at around 6 a.m., sources familiar with the matter said.
簡樸房｜收約340申請涉110單位 何永賢：15個工作天內完成處理 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】簡樸房制度實施首三天，截至下午5時，房屋局收到約340個簡樸房登記申請，涉及110個樓宇單位。 房...
簡樸房｜收約340申請涉110單位 何永賢：15個工作天內完成處理 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 【有線新聞】簡樸房制度實施首三天，截至下午5時，房屋局收到約340個簡樸房登記申請，涉及110個樓宇單位。 房屋局局長何永賢表示在周日制度實施首天，政府已循電子途徑收到登記申請，周一起亦陸續有市民親身交表。專責小組會檢查所須資料和文件是否齊備，收齊後於15個工作天內完成處理，之後會向申請人書面告知結果，成功登記的單位地址將會上載至簡樸房專題網站。
We have selected seven stories from the SCMP’s coverage of Asia over the past week that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Will Iran collapse without Khamenei or can its regime endure? 2. Why US strikes on Iran just made North Korea less likely to play ball 3. Viral video of child being shoved...
We have selected seven stories from the SCMP’s coverage of Asia over the past week that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Will Iran collapse without Khamenei or can its regime endure? 2. Why US strikes on Iran just made North Korea less likely to play ball 3. Viral video of child being shoved at Tokyo’s iconic Shibuya Crossing stokes anger 4. Indonesia is getting an aircraft carrier. The...
Rising tensions in the Middle East following attacks on Iran are having an impact on the trade corridors and investment plans of Chinese exporters and investors, who had seen Iran and the broader region as crucial growth markets. Joint strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel since Saturday have left shipments stalled, payments delayed and clients unreachable, Chinese businesspeople said. F...
Rising tensions in the Middle East following attacks on Iran are having an impact on the trade corridors and investment plans of Chinese exporters and investors, who had seen Iran and the broader region as crucial growth markets. Joint strikes on Iran by the United States and Israel since Saturday have left shipments stalled, payments delayed and clients unreachable, Chinese businesspeople said. For many of them, the disruption has been direct and immediate. David Xie, an executive at a...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: After one day for markets to react to the news from Iran : The dollar is up , sharply. Brent crude rose “only” 7%; European natural gas up 35%. Emerging markets stocks had their worst day in 11 months. But US equities are unscathed — the Nasdaq even rose slightly. Safe havens — both Treasuries and gold...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Today’s Points: After one day for markets to react to the news from Iran : The dollar is up , sharply. Brent crude rose “only” 7%; European natural gas up 35%. Emerging markets stocks had their worst day in 11 months. But US equities are unscathed — the Nasdaq even rose slightly. Safe havens — both Treasuries and gold — lost you money. AND: Some inspiration from a much earlier Persian war . Headless Decapitation is not the end. A rattlesnake thrashes around for minutes after losing its head. The guillotined showed signs of sensation and responded to stimuli in macabre 19th century experiments. Anne Boleyn’s lips moved as her head was displayed to the crowd after her execution. All of this gruesome detail is to demonstrate that killing the top leaders doesn’t mean that the Iranian regime is over. It may well yet be able to acquire a new head (not an option for flailing chickens). Even if not, its death throes could be violent and unpredictable. And if these images are distasteful, there is also something rather distasteful — as always — about the many market notes of the last 24 hours explaining that carnage and loss of life will probably not cost investors much money. Oil supply is highly unlikely to be disrupted in the way that it was in the 1970s, and other factors, such as strong earnings growth and likely lenient fiscal and monetary policy, are more important. This analysis is historically correct, but it’s still unpleasant. And the facts remain that Iran is determined to inflict pain on its attackers (even if it cannot win a conventional war). This is not how it reacted last summer when the US bombed its nuclear facilities, and there have been no significant military reprisals in any of the other Trump 2.0 geopolitical events to date. Even though beheaded, the Islamic Republic is unpredictable and dangerous. Bearing all this in mind, the market reaction to a war that has suddenly e...
Box-Cutter Thug Gets 16.5 Years In Prison After Framing Immigrant With Fake Trump Death Threats A Milwaukee man who slashed a bicyclist with a box cutter and then tried to frame his own victim with fake death threats against President Trump - hoping immigration authorities would deport him before trial - was sentenced Friday to 16½ years in prison . Demetric DeShawn Scott, 52, was convicted in Jan...
Box-Cutter Thug Gets 16.5 Years In Prison After Framing Immigrant With Fake Trump Death Threats A Milwaukee man who slashed a bicyclist with a box cutter and then tried to frame his own victim with fake death threats against President Trump - hoping immigration authorities would deport him before trial - was sentenced Friday to 16½ years in prison . Demetric DeShawn Scott, 52, was convicted in January of felony identity theft, witness intimidation, reckless endangerment and bail jumping after a Milwaukee County jury concluded he impersonated the man he attacked and sent threatening letters to state and federal officials. On Friday, Judge Kristy Yang stacked the penalties: 18 months for identity theft, five years for intimidating a witness and 10 years for reckless endangerment. He received credit for 882 days already served on the bail-jumping charge. The attack The case began in September 2023 , when Ramón Morales Reyes was riding his bike in Milwaukee. Scott approached him, kicked him off the bicycle, cut him with a box cutter and rode away on the stolen bike, according to court records. Police arrested Scott within hours. He was out on bail in a separate burglary case at the time. That burglary case was dismissed Friday. The deportation ploy While jailed, Scott carried out a scheme prosecutors described as calculated and cynical. He wrote multiple letters posing as Morales Reyes and sent them to state and federal officials threatening to kill Trump at a rally. The goal: trigger federal immigration enforcement and remove Morales Reyes from the country before he could testify. We are tired of this president messing with us mexicans - we have done more for this country than you white people - you have been deporting my family and I think it is time Donald J. Trump get what he has coming to him. I will self deport myself back to mexico but Not before I use my 30 yard 6 to shoot your precious president The plan briefly succeeded in dragging the victim into federal cus...
Given the broader market's recent volatility, many investors are hunting for oversold stocks. One name that has sold off aggressively over the last month and looks like an interesting opportunity to consider today is ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) . Not only has the digital workflow specialist recently completed a 5-for-1 stock split, making its shares more affordable, but it has also been a prominent ben...
Given the broader market's recent volatility, many investors are hunting for oversold stocks. One name that has sold off aggressively over the last month and looks like an interesting opportunity to consider today is ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) . Not only has the digital workflow specialist recently completed a 5-for-1 stock split, making its shares more affordable, but it has also been a prominent beneficiary of enterprise investments in artificial intelligence (AI) -- and its revenue is surging. Yet shares have been crushed, falling about 28% year to date. Is this a buying opportunity, or are shares still too expensive to call the stock a buy today? Continue reading