The top economic planner said Thursday that it had approved 12 fixed-asset investment projects with total investment reaching 141.6 billion yuan (about 20.56 billion U.S. dollars) in April. Chinese museums receive 900 mln visitors each year Chinese museums held a total of 30,000 exhibitions each...
It’s not simply a “British” accent — it’s RP or “Received Pronunciation.” In Britain, accent is tied very closely to class, and RP is generally associated with highly privileged individuals. Indeed, Hasan attended a public school (what Americans call a private school) and Christ...
The measure was passed as part of a larger $95 billion package that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel. The package also includes a provision that makes it illegal for data brokers to sell or rent “personally identifiable sensitive data” to North Korea, China, Russia,...
The bonuses that some bankers are getting are flat or down from what they received a year earlier, bank employees and recruiters said. Investment-banking bonuses have fallen as much as 25% so far, according to Johnson Associates, a Wall Street compensation consultant. And those payments ar...
United States president Joe Biden has led the “unequivocal condemnation” of Iran’s air missile attack on Israel as western leaders vowed to work to avoid further destabilisation in the Middle East. In a statement issued after an emergency meeting on Sunday...
Citadel’s Ken Griffin Has Remade the Hedge-Fund Industry, With Himself on Top; His firm’s performance is helping win a war of styles in its corner of professional investing Peter Rudegeair – The Wall Street Journal Ken Griffin wants visitors to the offices of his $63 billion hedge-fund...
Johnson has received about $223,000 in direct donations from the gun lobby since he won office in 2016. But the gun lobby has actually spent much more on the senator, tallying more than $1 million. That includes spending against Johnson opponents. That money wasn;t given di...
Consumer electronics are a good example. You can get a new, perfectly serviceable smart phone that puts the world at your fingertips – something you couldn’t buy for a billion dollars a generation ago – for $300. That’s about what a house-call by a plumber to fix a toilet cost you...
“Putinis not just grabbing them [minerals] along with the land, he is already thinking about how to get other partners in his alliance –North Korea, Iran… and he will give them access,” Mr Zelenskyy said. “This is very rich land. This does not mean that we are giving...
Amid increasing public outcry over Israel’s bombardments in Gaza, lawmakers have specifically asked the administration for information about the degree to which Israel is using U.S. intelligence or weapons to target Hamas and whether those attacks have killed civilians. ...