... ’s in New York on Dec. 4. The medal had been given a pre-auction estimate US$2.5 million to US$3.5 million, the auction house said. Watson, 86, plans to give the proceeds to Cold Spring Harbor Laborat ...More
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... in at New York's JFK airport Friday when a flight attendant served her an unopened bag of macadamia nuts. The executive said she should have first been asked if she wanted the nuts and then had them s ...More
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... r the New York-based Mingjing News Group. In the report, Chen Xiaoping, the media group's editor-in-chief, told Radio France Internationale in an interview that Li is suffering from diabetes, which ha ...More
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There's always something about a royal visit that inspires comparisons. The latest is by the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton and Prince William who arrived in New York on Sunday night for a three- ...More
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... ng in New York on Sunday. If they saw it, the Empire State building was awash in the royal colors on the night they hit town, perhaps reminding the royal couple about their whirlwind tour. Prince Geor ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
Edward Snowden was the target of a Kremlin honey trap, the New York Post reported. A former KGB agent said sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman was sent to seduce the US whistleblower. Defector Boris Karpich ...More
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Authorities were bracing for a fifth day of nationwide protests against police violence on Sunday after a New York grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who put an unarmed black man ...More
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... n the New York Stock Exchange Friday at US$225,640 apiece. Buffett’s fortune is now worth US$73.7 billion, US$300 million more than Slim's. The stock of America Movil, the mobile-phone company Slim co ...More
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... n the New York Stock Exchange where its initial public offering raised a record-shattering US$25 billion in September. According to the chamber, regulators should be given the discretion to allow the ...More
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... ndon, New York and Tokyo because the city's chief executive is authorized by the central government in Beijing. He declined to say if the government will launch major policies once the current politic ...More
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A New York court has ruled that chimpanzees cannot be granted legal personality because they are incapable of bearing the responsibilities that come with having legal rights. In a first case of its ki ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-05
... n the New York Stock Exchange, the venue of Alibaba's record-shattering US$25 billion offering, as well as the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. -- Contact the r ...More
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... o the New York Times. As your therapist may say, it brings up a whole lot of abandonment issues. In a study published this year, Pew Research found that 25 percent of cellphone users in a relationshi ...More
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New York is bracing for further unrest after a grand jury decided not to charge a white police officer who choked an unarmed black man to death. The decision sparked outrage and protests on Wednesday ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
... er in New York. Taxi medallion price in the megacity has slumped 13 percent to US$872,000, from a record high of US$1 million in June last year. Pressure from the popular app Uber has been a key reaso ...More
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... t the New York-based investment management firm. So for Hong Kong, the company recommends non-interest rate sensitive stocks and those that offer unique growth exposure, he said. Swan sees Asian compa ...More
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... ed by New York-based human rights group The Voice Project to show international backing for the pro-democracy protests. Hunter Heaney, Voice Project's founder, said the purpose was to let the proteste ...More
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... nk of New York – one of 12 regional banks in the Fed System which also has a board of governors in Washington, D.C. This regional structure is the result of legislative compromise in 1913 when the Fed ...More
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... o the New York Times. For the next two weeks, thousands of diplomats from around the globe will gather in the desert metropolis of Lima, Peru, to draft an agreement intended to stop the global rise of ...More
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... o the New York Times. “When I step back and think about what will get people off a couch, in a car, down the road and into a theater, the answer is not postage stamp-sized screens and old seats,” said ...More
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