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☆ China revives ruling party control of financial oversight
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Greg Baker | Afp | Getty ImagesBEIJING — The ruling Communist Party of China is establishing commissions to oversee finance and tech, state media announced Thursday. A new "Central Financial Commission" is set to strengthen the party's "centralized and unified leadership over financial work," state media said Thursday in Chinese, according to a CNBC translation. watch nowWhile state media did not specify, a financial work commission of the same name had been set up in the aftermath of the 1998 Asian financial crisis. Responsibilities of that party commission are borne by the restructured Ministry of Science and Technology. The State Council changes established a National Financial Regulatory Administration to oversee most of the financial industry — except for the securities industry.

☆ Russia has committed 'wide range' of war crimes in Ukraine, U.N inquiry finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] A flag is seen on a building during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File PhotoGENEVA, March 16 (Reuters) - Russia has committed wide-ranging war crimes in Ukraine such as wilful killings, torture and the deportation of children, a U.N.-mandated investigative body said in a report published on Thursday. "Russian authorities have committed numerous violationsof international humanitarian law and violations of international human rights law, in addition to a wide range of war crimes...," the report said. Russia denies committing atrocities or targeting civilians in Ukraine. Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Emma Farge; Editing by Anthony Deutsch and Raissa KasolowskyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Summary Arrest warrant issued after ex-PM failed to attend courtCourt rejects Khan's offer to appear voluntarilyFormer cricket star denies wrongdoingSupporters battled police for two days to prevent arrestLAHORE, Pakistan, March 16 (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan's plea to suspend an arrest warrant issued against him, stoking fears of a renewed confrontation between his supporters and security forces. [1/5] Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, carry sticks as they walk towards Khan's house, in Lahore, Pakistan March 16, 2023. Provincial information minister Amir Mir said there were militants among Khan's supporters outside his house. The police were unarmed, he said, adding they had to use water-cannons and teargas shells when Khan's supporters turned violent. Current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has rejected Khan's demands, saying an election would be held as scheduled later this year.

President Biden meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the White House in Washington last Friday. The Group of Seven advanced democracies want to keep the price cap on Russian crude at $60 a barrel, according to people familiar with the matter, thwarting hopes in some European capitals of tightening the Western sanctions this month. European Commission officials warned the bloc’s member states about the G-7 position, saying that President Biden had told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the Oval Office of the White House last week there was no appetite in Washington for adjusting the oil sanctions, according to the people familiar with the matter.

☆ I'm an influencer who makes 80% of my 6-figure income from Amazon. Here are my top 5 strategies for success.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

About 80% of his six-figure influencer income comes from promoting products on Amazon. One night while we were having dinner, my kids were watching funny videos on TikTok. Now, 80% of my six-figure yearly income as a creator comes from Amazon commissions, and the rest comes from partnerships with brands. This will make it easier for you to promote the products and for your audience to trust your recommendations. Go live with Amazon Live shoppable videos — here's how I do itShare your favorite finds live on Amazon, where viewers can watch your streams, chat with you, and shop the products you recommend.

☆ I make 6 figures reviewing tech products with the Amazon influencer program. Here are my 6 tips for success.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

About 80% of his six-figure influencer income comes from promoting products on Amazon. He shared his top tips to build a successful business as an Amazon Influencer. Here are my top tips for finding success as an Amazon Influencer. This will make it easier for you to promote the products and for your audience to trust your recommendations. Go live with Amazon Live shoppable videos — here's how I do itShare your favorite finds live on Amazon, where viewers can watch your streams, chat with you, and shop the products you recommend.

☆ North Korea decides on war deterrence measures, KCNA says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

[1/2] Progress of the 5th Enlarged Meeting of the 8th Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea in this image released on March 11, 2023. KCNA via REUTERSSEOUL, March 12 (Reuters) - North Korea decided to take important, practical war deterrence measures at a meeting of the ruling party's military commission presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, state news agency KCNA said on Sunday. (This story has been refiled to add a missing word)Reporting by Ju-min Park; Editing by Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Toronto school board becomes first in Canada to recognize caste discrimination
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 9 (Reuters) - Toronto's school board has become the first in Canada to recognize that caste discrimination exists in the city's schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue. The Toronto District School Board on Wednesday voted in favor of a motion to that effect, which was introduced by board trustee Yalini Rajakulasingam. It comes weeks after Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination after a city council vote. Rajakulasingam called for a partnership between the human rights commission of Ontario, Canada's most populous province, and Toronto's school board. Activists opposing caste discrimination say it is no different from other forms of discrimination like racism and hence should be outlawed.

☆ Womb for rent: More women are working as commercial surrogates as global demand rises
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Typically, commercial surrogacy is gestational surrogacy, meaning the surrogate has no biological link to the child. The growing commercial surrogacy industryDilara is one of a growing number of women turning to commercial surrogacy as a source of income amid swelling global demand for carriers. The global commercial surrogacy industry was worth an estimated $14 billion in 2022, according to market research consultancy Global Market Insights — though exact numbers are hard to verify given the private nature of many arrangements. In the first three quarters of 2022, more than 400 parental orders were made for surrogate parents in the U.K. Women's rights groups are calling for greater regulation of the commercial surrogacy industry.

☆ Syria says Israeli strike puts Aleppo airport out of service
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BEIRUT, March 7 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike knocked Aleppo airport out of service on Tuesday and forced the Syrian authorities to reroute flights carrying aid for those affected by last month's earthquake, Syrian state media reported. The attack caused "material damage" to the airport, SANA cited the source as saying, without mentioning any casualties. Foreign donors including the United Arab Emirates, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Algeria have flown aid into Aleppo airport since the Feb. 6 earthquake, Syrian state media has reported. The attack overnight was Israel's third air strike in Syria this year, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In January, the Syrian army said an Israeli missile attack briefly put Damascus airport out of service.

☆ Factbox: Chinese chipmaking equipment manufacturers filling void left by U.S. export restrictions
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Naura's most advanced etching machine supports 55 nm and 28 nm chipmaking technology, well behind the leading edge of chip manufacturing. The firm also makes deposition machines, which apply chemicals and gases to silicon wafers throughout the chipmaking process. It produces machines that can service the 14 nm to 28 nm process nodes of its deposition machines. ADVANCED MICRO-FABRICATION EQUIPMENT INC CHINA (AMEC) (688012.SS)AMEC makes etching equipment used to remove excess material from the surface of silicon wafers. BEIJING E-TOWN SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY CO LTD (BEST)BEST produces degumming equipment used to remove photoresist chemicals during the lithography process.

☆ Pakistani police serve arrest warrants to former PM Imran Khan
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Mubasher Bukhari | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LAHORE, Pakistan, March 5 (Reuters) - Pakistani police on Sunday served arrest warrants to former prime minister Imran Khan to ensure his appearance in court on charges of misusing his office to sell state gifts, authorities said, after Khan's supporters tried to prevent police entry into his home. The Federal Investigation Agency then filed charges against him in an anti-graft court, which last week issued the arrest warrants after Khan failed to appear in court despite repeated summons. He led countrywide protest campaigns to press for an early vote last year and was shot at and wounded at one of the rallies. Chaudhry said the government wanted to sow political chaos and avoid an early election by arresting the former premier, who was still popular among the country's youth and urban voters. Islamabad police said in a statement that when Khan wasn't found at his residence in Lahore, they served the arrest warrants.

☆ 5 side hustles that can make you hundreds a month with only a few hours of work and no up-front costs
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Jen Glantz is an entrepreneur who has tried various side hustles to pass time in the winter months. But as a full-time entrepreneur whose income varies drastically month to month, I feel guilty when I'm not making money during my free time. Plus, many of these extra gigs can be done on the weekends, so they don't disrupt the flow of my work schedule. I often put the same items on both platforms to double the exposure and increase the potential of a sale. I stopped doing this once I met my partner and we started traveling more in the winter season together.

☆ India's top court overhauls election commissioner appointment in 'historic' judgment
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Sakshi Dayal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Joseph, delivering the order of a constitution bench that heard several petitions calling for an independent committee to appoint election commissioners. "The election commission of India is to perform the arduous and unenviable task of remaining aloof from all forms of subjugation by and interference from the executive." "They have said the independence of the election commission is absolutely essential for democracy, and for that independence to be assured, you cannot have a system where the government alone appoints the election commissioners," he told reporters outside the court. India's former chief election commissioner, S.Y. Good for the perception of neutrality of the Election Commission."

☆ Supreme Court Weighs Future of New York Harbor Commission
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Paul Berger | Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New Jersey officials argue that most cargo activity has moved from the piers of New York City to terminals in their state, such as this one in Elizabeth. The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday on the fate of an obscure agency that polices organized crime and fair hiring at the East Coast’s busiest port. The states of New York and New Jersey set up the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor in 1953, prompted by a 1949 newspaper investigation into union corruption that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporter Malcolm Johnson and inspired the Marlon Brando picture “On the Waterfront.”

☆ Nigerians wait to finish voting in some places as election count underway
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Tife Owolabi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People wait for results during the counting process of Nigeria's presidential election, at a polling unit in Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria February 25, 2023. A Reuters reporter saw voters arriving at polling stations in Yenagoa city, which will open at 10 a.m. (0900 GMT) so electoral commission officials can complete Saturday's presidential and parliamentary election. Voting was also expected to continue in some parts northeastern Borno state, where voting machines failed to work. He is stepping down after winning two previous elections and serving the maximum eight years permitted by the constitution. Whoever wins will face a litany of crises in the country of more than 200 million, Africa's most populous nation.

☆ A single mother escaped Kyiv with her 5-year-old at the onset of the Russian invasion. She is one of 8 million refugees who can only dream of returning home.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Kseniya Kharchenko and her then 5-year-old son fled Kyiv a day after the start of the invasion. And yet, Before the war, her ex-husband had called her paranoid over her fears of an invasion — Kharchenko said she was waiting for the war to begin for months. "I was so frightened, I really was," Kharchenko told Insider, thinking about how she and her son would survive. The act of protecting her son's life, Kharchenko told Insider, brings her strength and gives her purpose when she feels overwhelmed by the events of the last year. I have a fantasy," Kharchenko told Insider.

☆ Enel Peru says state-run Chinese power firm eying possible purchase
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Marco Aquino | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LIMA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The Peruvian unit of Italy's biggest power utility, Enel (ENEI.MI), said on Friday that state-owned China Southern Power Grid is carrying out "due diligence" on the local unit for a possible purchase offer on its energy distribution operations. Bloomberg reported earlier on Friday that the Chinese firm is weighing a possible bid for Enel's distribution business in Peru, which it said could be valued at some $3 billion. The Guangzhou-based power company's owner, state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Part of that announcement included the plan to put up for sale Enel Peru's distribution and generation assets, which the state-controlled firm said was already under way at the time. On Friday, shares of Enel Distribucion Peru rose 25% on Lima's main stock exchange.

WHO IS INVESTIGATING WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE? Ukrainian war crimes prosecutors are working with mobile justice teams supported by international legal experts and forensic teams. A total of 296 individuals have been charged with war crimes. War crimes can be defined under customary international law or national law. A number of mostly European states have universal jurisdiction laws that allow them to prosecute Ukrainian war crimes.

☆ Embattled media company Ozy's CEO Carlos Watson was arrested and faces fraud charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson was arrested on Thursday. Watson is facing conspiracy charges in New York federal court. A New York Times report in 2021 said Ozy's other cofounder masqueraded as a YouTube executive on a call. Watson was arrested and is facing criminal charges in New York federal court, The Wall Street Journal first reported. Watson announced the company shut down in 2021, but has since said it was opening for business, with new hires.

☆ Beijing plans to hand out $6 a month to low-income families to help offset the cost of food. The amount will just about buy 2 Big Macs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Beijing is planning to give nearly $6 a month in subsidies to the city's low-income residents. The $6 a month subsidy triggered many Chinese social media users who say it's too little. But it's facing online backlash that the amount — which just about buys two Big Macs in China — is too low. Several users said the subsidy should be 40 yuan a day instead of a month, which would translate to roughly 1,200 yuan — or about $175 — a month. Despite general skepticism over how far 40 yuan can go in the Chinese capital, at least one user said it's a good start that should be emulated by other local governments.

☆ Inflation in Beijing: Chinese capital gives cash handout to low-income households to offset rising food prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN —Beijing will give out a $6 monthly cash subsidy to low-income residents to cushion the impact of rising food prices, a move that has unexpectedly angered many online who say the amount is far too low. The demonstrations were the latest outburst of public discontent since mass protests against Covid curbs gripped the country late last year. “In January, food prices in Beijing rose by 6.6%, meeting the conditions for starting the price-linked subsidy program,” the state-run Beijing Daily newspaper quoted an official from the commission as saying in a Friday report. Although the headline figure remains relatively low compared to other countries, food prices jumped 6.2%, with pork and fruit prices rising the most. In Beijing, food prices outpaced the national level.

☆ Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' manslaughter charges downgraded, cutting possible prison time
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Feb 20 (Reuters) - Prosecutors have downgraded the involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin, reducing the possible prison time the Hollywood star may face for the 2021 fatal shooting on the set of the movie "Rust," charging documents showed. Carmack-Altwies filed altered charges for Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed on Friday, removing the firearm enhancement and reducing their possible prison sentence from a minimum of five years to a maximum of 18 months. “We applaud the decision of the district attorney to dismiss the firearm enhancement and it was the right call, ethically, and on the merits," said Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez-Reed. In 2022, the criteria for applying the firearm enhancement -with the 5-year minimum prison sentence - was expanded to include when a weapon was simply "discharged" in the commission of a noncapital felony. Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed are both expected to make an initial court appearance in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Feb. 24.

☆ Russian envoy: U.S. seeks to inflame Ukraine crisis with claims of crimes against humanity
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Lidia Kelly | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Feb 19 (Reuters) - Washington is trying to demonize Moscow and foment the crisis in Ukraine with allegations of Russian crimes against humanity, Russia's ambassador to the United States said on Sunday. The Biden administration formally concluded that Russia has committed "crimes against humanity" during its nearly year-long invasion of Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday. Organisations supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development have documented more than 30,000 war crimes incidents since the invasion, according to the U.S. government. The U.N.-backed Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine says it has identified war crimes but has not concluded whether they amount to crimes against humanity. The war has killed tens of thousands, uprooted millions, pummelled the global economy and made Russian President Vladimir Putin a pariah in the West.

☆ China's top diplomat reiterates calls for dialogue over Ukraine crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Feb 18 (Reuters) - China has "neither stood by idly nor thrown fuel on the fire" regarding the crisis in Ukraine, and continues to call for peace and dialogue, top diplomat Wang Yi said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. China will set out its position on settling the Ukraine crisis in a document that will state all countries' territorial integrity must be respected, Wang said. Asked to reassure the audience that military escalation was not imminent over the Taiwan Strait, Wang said Taiwan "independence forces" are incompatible with peace. "If we want to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait, we must resolutely oppose Taiwan independence, and we must resolutely maintain the one-China policy." Reporting by David Kirton in Shenzhen, China, Ryan Woo in Beijing and Laura Lin in Shanghai; editing by Jason NeelyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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