A Hong Kong appellate court has quashed Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s fraud conviction for operating a consultancy office from his now-defunct tabloid-style newspaper, Apple Daily, finding that the prosecution failed to prove the jailed former media boss had made a “false representation”. In a judgment delivered on Thursday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the prosecution…
Add VegOut to your Google News feed. “So you just… swipe through pictures of strangers?” my mother asked, peering at my phone with the same suspicious expression she reserves for self-checkout machines. I’d been trying to explain Tinder to her for the past ten minutes, and we’d barely scratched the surface. “But honey,” she said,…
Manchester: Keir Starmer faces a big test on Thursday when voters in Manchester cast their ballots for a new lawmaker in an election polls say is too close to call between the British leader’s Labour Party, populist Reform UK and the left-leaning Greens. The vote in Gorton and Denton, in northwestern England’s Greater Manchester, is…
This company’s growth opportunity could be huge. Palantir Technologies (PLTR +4.11%) posted another blockbuster earnings report in early February. Its fourth-quarter revenue surged 70% year over year, accelerating from the 63% growth in the previous quarter. The main dilemma for investors considering the stock is valuation. It’s expensive, trading at a forward price-to-sales ratio (P/S)…
1 Serie A giants Juventus suffered a heartbreaking knockout from the Champions League in the playoffs against Galatasaray, despite being 3-0 up at the start of extra time while being down to ten men. Lloyd Kelly was controversially sent off when the Bianconeri were only 1-0 up. They two dramatic second-half goals to level the…
Hong Kong will cancel the two-decade-old “A Symphony of Lights” within the year, with the South China Morning Post learning that the fixture will be replaced with immersive projections across various districts to upgrade the city’s offerings. The revamp is among a raft of new tourism measures announced in finance chief Paul Chan Mo-pop’s latest…
Feb. 25, 2026, 8:28 p.m. ET Once again, a “Love is Blind” cast member has waded into political waters. Alex Henderson, a 31-year-old whose soccer career ended after several knee surgeries and now does day trading and podcasting, hinted at his political leanings in several scenes in Season 10 (see: his desire to move to…
Czech tourists and business travellers heading to the United Kingdom will soon need to complete an online application before they board the plane. On 25 February the British government confirmed that its new Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system is now being rolled out to EU nationals, with Czechs in the next wave. The ETA is…
I have a habit of re-watching movies during festive times. As we entered the Year of the Horse, one movie that I watched again during Chinese New Year was Marriage Story, a legal drama released on streaming platforms in 2019. The story centres on the divorce of the two lead characters and the resulting legal…
On Feb. 25, 2026, streaming’s standout dealmaker faces a high-stakes Warner Bros. bidding war and rising antitrust scrutiny. Today’s Change (5.99%) $4.67 Current Price $82.72 Key Data Points Market Cap $329B Day’s Range $79.35 – $83.11 52wk Range $75.01 – $134.12 Volume 3.4M Avg Vol 46M Gross Margin 48.59% Netflix (NFLX +5.99%), a provider of…