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Alibaba, Now May Not Be the Best Time to IPO in Hong Kong Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) is going public in Hong Kong with a $13.4 billion listing, and its putting extra stress on the Hong Kong banking system specifically at a time when the island is on the verge of ex…

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Greta Thunberg is hitching an impromptu boat ride back to Europe. The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist refuses to fly, because airplane travel has such a heavy carbon footprint — a single round-trip flight between New York and California generates roughl…

Uighur activists said they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain the ethnic group, alleging China could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of one million people. The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a …

Generations of Southern Californians once shopped at the defunct Bullocks chain of department stores, but for the very best of everything, Bullocks Wilshire was the place to go. Bullocks Wilshire was a high-end department store from its inception. Constructe…

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - State workers in Chile promised to launch a massive, nationwide walk-off early on Tuesday, a sign protesters were not yet satisfied following the government’s decision to rewrite the country’s heavily critiqued dictatorship-era constituti…

There is one word for Michael Benjamin Washingtons stunning performance in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities (opening tonight at Signature Theatre, to December 15): virtuosic.  He inhabits every character in Anna Deavere Smith…

With its rich sense of time and place, nuanced portrayal of individual destinies, precisely rendered imagery, and poetic expression of themes, Jason Lutess Berlin is truly a masterful narrative.Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow A watershed achievementBerlin…

S. Lavanya (21), daughter of constable R. Selvaraj who was murdered during the 1997 communal riots in Coimbatore city, was given the job of junior assistant at the Coimbatore north taluk office. She joined duty on Monday. Selvaraj, traffic constable attached…

(MADRID) — Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists won Spain’s national election on Sunday but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock in the European Union’s fifth-largest economy. After a fourth natio…