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 ImagesBEIJING — 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 developers by sales, has reportedly missed two coupon payments on dollar bonds that were due Sunday. Citing the firm, Reuters said the bonds in question are notes due in February 2026 and August 2030.Country Garden did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the reports.Meanwhile, Dalian…
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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 the motion picture community in times of need. A special appearance will be made by the 501st Legion, an international costuming organization comprised of and operated by Star Wars fans that are committed to supporting communities, moviegoers and charitable causes nationwide. “We’re incredibly grateful to…
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 NBC comedy series. The series, titled Uncle Stan, was to revolve around Stanley as he comes out of retirement and travels from Florida to Los Angeles to help his nephew save a fledgling motorcycle/flower shop business. COVID-19 and the current strikes have stalled the project, so…
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 the Pacific Ocean popular with tourists. Dan Dooley, Lynk’s chief commercial officer, said Aug. 9 that its service covers the stretch of water from Arutanga, the country’s most populated island, to Manuae where there is no terrestrial wireless infrastructure. With just three satellites currently 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 latest offering from the Chinese manufacturer will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 870 SoC. It will sport an 11.5-inch display with a 2.8K resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate.Vivo’s vice president Jia Jingdong has shared a note on his Weibo handle as he announced 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 | ReutersPresident 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 green energy economic plan at a groundbreaking for the new facility.”For the longest time we’ve been told to give up on American manufacturing — that it can’t happen again,” Biden said. “I’ve never believed that. As I’ve said: America used to lead the world in manufacturing. We’re…
In this articleDISFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTMembers 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 ImagesWhen the markets close Wednesday, all eyes will be on Bob Iger.The Disney CEO has a laundry list of issues to address during the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call.Linear advertising and television subscriptions are down, its movie studio has been hit-or-miss at the box office, Hollywood’s actors and writers are on strike and streaming losses continue to escalate.Iger has hinted that…
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 well, and she took him to a hospital. We’re told his wife got a call from the hospital in the early hours of Wednesday informing her Robbie had passed. Robbie’s group first formed in Canada in the late ’50s as The Hawks — including the…
In this articleDISFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTRepublican 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 ImagesAttorneys for Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the Florida governor “welcomes Disney’s surrender” on key allegations in the company’s lawsuit accusing the governor of political retaliation.Disney has accused DeSantis of working to pass legislation targeting the entertainment giant out of a “desire to punish” the company for speaking out against a controversial classroom bill dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by critics.But those alleged acts by the governor…
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 with a removable nursing clasp, which Rihanna demonstrated by breastfeeding RZA.The mogul wore little else to accessorize the lingerie look, opting for only a few chunky metallic rings, a pair of stud earrings, and a glossy dark pink lip. Meanwhile, little RZA coordinated with his mom…
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 to some fantastic people over the years, and something tells us we’ll be saying goodbye to more as the years in the narrative go on. Ellen has been a key player since For All Mankind Season 1, and her presence has been felt throughout three…
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 suggests it’s not all that simple. By making use of synthetic human pheromones, these elixirs aim to emit subconscious signals that can influence how others perceive and respond to you. When considering any sort, it’s essential to keep your expectations in check and avoid falling for…
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 & buffered from sea-level rise. Sinéad— I am listening to “Just Like U Said It Would B” on repeat & it was exactly that when you called out misogyny, excessive commercialism, sex abuse in the Catholic church, a climate scientist who says now all the…
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 a number of different physical parameters in infrastructure such as buildings, bridges and railways. The work was done by Xinyu Fan at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and colleagues and the their system uses two successive light pulses to measure three different types of light scattering…
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, 2023, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Nakba Remembrance Day. I met you, many years ago, in a large bookstore in London. You were standing up, strong in silence, and you were holding up Dostoevsky on one side and leaning against a copy of the Arabian Nights.…
In this articleLYFTPENNAXONDKNGFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTRick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprises.Adam Jeffery | CNBCCheck 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 operating amid by weaker-than-expected membership rates. WeWork warned of measures such as a potential bankruptcy or restructuring or refinancing its debt. Its share price, which was below $1 since early this year, dropped to $0.05 in premarket trading.Carvana — Online used-car retailer Carvana added 7.4% before the bell. Carvana expects adjusted EBITDA for the…
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 current month of July setting records on key metrics. But the numbers mask an AMC skirmish with shareholders that turned into a messy, ongoing Delaware Chancery Court case requiring a judge’s approval for the company to sell equity to raise cash. Yes, Aron said he’s…
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 Aug. 8 at the Small Satellite Conference here. “Industry partners are crucial to our mission. As the marketplace continues to grow and competition intensifies and innovation accelerates, AS&T strategies are designed to capitalize on that and support our mission by speeding up the technology development…