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China’s securities regulator has given his strongest endorsement yet to expand and add financial products to a transborder investment channel with Hong Kong, in a boost to the city’s role as the mainland’s offshore financial centre. Commodities may be added to the stocks, bonds, options and wealth management products that are currently tradeable in the […]
China’s Economy is Larger Than 30 Asian Economies This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The world’s second-largest economy sometimes suffers from its own success: it’s hard to comprehend how big it really is. […]
UCLA forward William Kyle III (24) is wrapped up and fouled by Rider forward Tyriek Weeks (31) at Pauley Pavilion on Monday. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) Having revealed his small-ball starting lineup, UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin soon will have a decision to make when he wants to go big. Does he go with the […]
Ranked: All the Cities in the World Larger Than New York City This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. This chart ranks the world’s largest urban agglomerations that are more populous than New York […]
The next foldable smartphone from Oppo and OnePlus will be the Oppo Find N5 in China and OnePlus Open 2 internationally. Like the Find N3 and original Open, these are expected to be identical. Thus, we’ll refer to both as the Open 2 in this article, but everything we say also applies to the Find […]
Looking at the fully-formed pop star bedazzled to the heavens onstage at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on October 16th, it’s easy to forget that Sabrina Carpenter was a Disney kid. There are only so many routes to take when young performers untangle themselves from these identities, after all; there’s the tried and true Miley method of […]
Veteran journalist and broadcaster George Negus has died at the age of 82 following a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his family said in a statement. The statement said Negus “passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones” and thanked Australian healthcare workers for supporting him “in the best possible way” during his final moments. “Despite the […]
We need to make every effort to get people who disagree, even sharply, in dialogue with one another. In a previous article, I wrote an open letter to the Stanford President, Jonathan Levin, regarding a conference at his university, Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past. As SBM readers know, this conference featured doctors […]
The motion of bubbling gas on the surface of the star R Doradus ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Vlemming Giant bubbles of hot gas more than 75 times the size of our sun have been observed on the surface of a nearby star, which researchers say may lead to better solar computer simulations. Wouter Vlemmings and his colleagues […]