For issues like a leaking roof, aging plumbing, electrical faults, or a broken heating system or water heater—repairs that can easily cost thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars—many cities with large Chinese-American populations are now offering interest-free loans, and in some cases, grants that do not need to be repaid. Starting in October, […]
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Driven by weakening demand in China, revenue for LVMH’s largest division—Fashion & Leather Goods—fell by 5% last quarter, a decline far steeper than anticipated. This setback interrupts a recovery that had only just seen its first quarter of growth in two years. While strong demand for jewelry and solid performance from the beauty retailer Sephora […]
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Public pension expenditures in California continue to rise, with some retired public servants receiving annual pensions reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to a report by The California Post, 63,107 retirees in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) receive annual pensions of at least $100,000, totaling $6.3 billion; the highest-paid recipient received $462,784 […]
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detectives opened fire in the Marble Hill neighborhood at the intersection of Bronx and Manhattan on the afternoon of 8th, injuring one person and taking two others to hospital with injuries in the incident. The injured were conscious and their injuries were reportedly not life-threatening; Governor Kathy Hochul asked the […]
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Ahead of the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Activision discussed the “multi-billion dollar market” behind video game cheating. Cheating is an issue that plagues almost all online games, and Call of Duty is particularly notorious in this regard—a reputation further cemented by its free-to-play battle royale mode, Warzone. Like other game companies, […]
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On the 16th (local time), ahead of the scheduled meeting between Trump and Xi, the Chinese Embassy in the United States held a handover ceremony for the repatriation of cultural artifacts. China received 58 items—including cultural relics, artworks, and paleontological fossils—returned by the Cultural Property, Art, and Antiquities Program of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations. Chinese […]
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According to the BBC, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appeared in person for the first time at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on the 16th regarding allegations of crimes against humanity linked to his bloody war on drugs. Although he had previously appeared only via video link since his arrest in Manila […]
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A wildfire near the town of Ross in Palo Pinto County, North Texas, has been burning for over two weeks, scorching at least 90,400 acres and becoming the second-largest wildfire in North Texas history. According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, the fire is currently 76% contained, though the area remains on high alert. CBS […]
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Kyodo News reported on August 3 that NEC has established a new, fully AI-powered, unmanned department where AIs with different roles autonomously complete a range of business processes, from task allocation to business analysis. This new department, established in early August, has four levels of AI, each assuming different responsibilities, including “department head,” “board of […]
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The Dutch central bank (DNB) confirmed on August 2nd that, due to “escalating geopolitical turmoil,” it has transferred 86 metric tons of gold, worth billions of dollars, from the United States and Canada to London, England, where it is currently held by the Bank of England for easier trading in a “crisis situation.” According to […]
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