This article was first published on July 30, 1996. Our golden girl by Nazvi Careem and Scott McKenzie Cheers and tears swept Hong Kong yesterday (July 29, 1996) on the back of the golden victory for Olympic windsurfer Lee Lai-shan. The 25-year-old from Cheung Chau won a gold medal for herself and glory for Hong…
A wanted director of a scandal-hit Hong Kong charity who fled the city is facing a sweeping 14-count civil lawsuit in the United States over an alleged multimillion-dollar property scheme that the plaintiff described as a “shell game”. In a complaint for damages and equitable relief seen by the South China Morning Post, developer Joseph…
Hong Kong’s 21 ministerial-level officials spent more than HK$46.6 million (US$5.9 million) on trips over the past three financial years, with finance chief Paul Chan Mo-po accounting for nearly a quarter of the total. Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau Ying-wah was the most frequent traveller, making 50 trips in the past three…
Yamaha Motor Corporation’s headquarters in Cypress, Calif., on July 7, 2021. (DigitalIceAge via Wikimedia CC 4.0) Another California company has announced its decision to move all operations outside of the state. Yamaha Motor Corporation, known for creating motorized vehicles like motorcycles and WaveRunners, is set to relocate its headquarters to Kennesaw, Georgia, after more than 45…
Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways has cancelled at least four flights to the United States on Sunday ahead of the arrival of a monster winter storm, with more passengers expected to be affected on Monday. Cathay stopped short of revealing the exact number of flights affected, saying only that it was “making a…
Mega Millions winner bought ticket just 41-miles from where numbers were drawn – CBS News Watch CBS News A single-ticket won the $980 million Mega Millions prize after hitting the jackpot Friday. CBS News’ Dave Malkoff reports. Source link
Source: SDI Productions / Getty Often relied upon to carry the burden of saving democracy and the country from itself, Black voters showed up for themselves and their communities in 2025. Recent state and local elections offered a glimpse of the possibility and hope of what’s possible when Black voters are engaged on the issues…
A single ticket holder in Georgia nabbed the state’s largest jackpot ever in a Mega Millions drawing Friday night — $980 million. Friday’s winning numbers were 1-8-11-12-57 and the Mega Ball was 7. The single ticket was purchased at Publix in Newnan, Georgia, Mega Millions said. Newnan is about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. The…
President Trump said he will no longer support Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, marking a dramatic break with a onetime Trump loyalist who has increasingly criticized the president and her party’s leadership in recent weeks. In an almost 300-word missive on Truth Social Friday night, the president said Greene “has gone Far Left,” and…
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of the three men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, had been jogging in the neighborhood. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court…