Written by The heartbroken families of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles are calling on the public to help cover mounting costs to bring their daughters’ bodies home after their deaths from methanol poisoning in Laos. The 19-year-olds from Beaumaris, in Melbourne’s Bayside, are among six foreign tourists who died after a mass poisoning in the south-east Asian […]
NEWTOWN BOROUGH, PA — The public is invited to attend a Jingle Mingle Sip-N-Shop fundraising event on Friday, Nov. 22 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Newtown Hardware House on South State Street. Fifteen percent of the sales will be donated to “A Love for Life,” a Newtown-based nonprofit that raises money to fund […]
London-based startup Lighthouse just raised a hefty $370mn from American investment giant KKR at a valuation of over $1bn, making it Europe’s latest unicorn tech company. The funding will supercharge the company’s ambitions to shake up the $15bn travel tech market. What’s on the to-do list? Refining its AI tools, expanding globally, and snapping up […]
Candela is flying high — and across the Atlantic. The Swedish startup has secured $14mn, marking the close of its Series C round at a cosy $40mn. This puts its total funding at just shy of $90mn. Candela has also sold its first P-12 ferry in the US, amid burgeoning demand for what is the […]
Voters rejected a plan to boost the lowest hourly wage rate by $2, which critics said would raise prices and lead to job cuts. Source link
A pair of undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea mysteriously stopped working in the last two days, and the first reaction from Germany and Finland, two NATO members, was essentially, “What have the Russians done now?” followed by, sotto voce, “Is there a chance this was an accident?” The two cables—one between Sweden and […]
One in 10 households could soon be walloped with a massive £3,000 council tax bill after Keir Starmer gave permission for the charge to continue to increase by nearly three times the inflation rate. If the five per cent cap is maintained, the amount paid by an average household could increase by £109 to a […]
Crossing the Shenzhen border on an early morning in mid-October, a joyful Joseph finally set foot in Hong Kong, where his two children have lived for over 10 years, with the right to work. In his mid 30s and from mainland China, Joseph has landed a job as a waiter in a New Territories restaurant […]
Last year’s event resulted in $166,000 (129,373 pounds) raised by participants who created their own routes around groups of churches. At the time, Charles Inglis, Norfolk Bike Ride Committee Chairman said: “Since that first bike ride, the bikes, the clothes, the world has changed enormously but one thing hasn’t change, we still have our magnificent […]
Using real indigo is just one element that can raise the price of Japanese #denim. #japan #fashion Source link