Two women are facing charges after the Plymouth District Attorney’s office said they stole hundreds of clothing items from Old Navy. Tyeisha Bridges, 32, and Shatoya Lewis, 25, were arrested in New York and arraigned in Hingham District Court on Thursday on one count each of organized retail crime, larceny over $1,200, larceny under $1,200…
Tamar Park, located next to Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong’s Admiralty, will soon be “submerged” in water. Not by an actual flood, though, but by 600 outsize water droplets made with recycled plastic as a ticketed art installation running from April 1 to June 13 to continue the spirit of Hong Kong’s Art March. Large-scale…
When Donald Trump retook the White House last year, parts of the banking world celebrated. Wall Street dealmakers saw his presidency ushering in a new era of “megamergers,” with the Republican administration providing a more friendly regulatory environment. But as the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (March 24), those predictions have so far not come to…
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. A horse-shaped white cloud has returned to the blue sky more than four years after being blown away….
When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, made his entrance at a symposium with a group of top entrepreneurs this week, he seemed to be in good spirits. China has had a few good weeks. The artificial intelligence models by the start-up DeepSeek sent U.S. stocks tumbling and Western commentators screaming, “Sputnik moment.” Then an animated film…
HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a group of prominent private entrepreneurs including billionaire Jack Ma on Monday, a sign that Beijing sees the technology industry as a key spark for firing up sluggish economic growth. Footage shown on Chinese state media confirmed the attendance of Ma, founder of the e-commerce conglomerate…
Effie Vasilopoulos Newly launched UK-based firm Broadfield has marked the Year of the Snake with its first overseas office in Hong Kong, just two months after its official debut. Hong Kong managing partner Effie Vasilopoulos said the firm would leverage its strong local expertise and market-leading position to drive growth in China. Vasilopoulos told Law.asia…
A man in eastern China was arrested for operating more than 400 mobile phones simultaneously to enhance his chances of winning gifts in live-streams. The man, surnamed Ma, was discovered managing the hundreds of devices in a small garage within a residential compound in Jiangsu province in August, as reported by China Newsweek on December…
(This story was updated to include additional information.) BOSTON — Federal authorities arrested a Natick man on Monday after he allegedly sold U.S. technology that was later used in a fatal drone attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. soldiers. The arrests of Mahdi Mohammed Sadeghi, 42, of 85 Woodland Road, Natick, and Mohammad Abedini…
For SouthCoast residents who are fond of the area’s usual snowfall, it may seem like the last few winters have been a major disappointment. According to Climate Central, 64% of locations now get less snow than they did in the 1970s. Those days bring back memories of the Blizzard of ’78 when nearly two feet…