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☆ Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank president: People shouldn't exaggerate geopolitical tensions
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAsian Infrastructure Investment Bank president: People shouldn't exaggerate geopolitical tensionsJin Liqun, president of the bank, discusses the projects it has co-financed with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.

Persons: Jin Liqun Organizations: Infrastructure Investment Bank, World Bank, Asian Development Bank

☆ Japan’s Indy 200: Remembering the first time IndyCars raced at Fuji Speedway
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Emiko Jozuka For Cnn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

She is the daughter of the Japanese photographer Joe Honda. Joe Honda ArchiveCommercial opportunityIn the 1960s, Japan was emerging as an advanced and high-tech nation following its defeat in WWII. “The groundwork for the Indy 200 was already laid by then, and the Japanese were ready and willing to pay for racing,” he said. Rare intimacyFive months before the Indy 200, Clark had been invited to test-drive the Fuji road course. Joe Honda ArchiveCultural shiftsIn 1966, no Japanese drivers or cars participated in the exhibition Indy 200 race.

Persons: Joe Honda, Japan CNN —, Jim Clark, Honda, Jackie Stewart, Chris Amon, Akira Jin –, –, Shingo Shiozawa, Riki Ohkubo, ”, —, ” Jackie Stewart, Nissan Sunny, Jack K, Yamaguchi, Jin –, Japan –, Shiozawa, Jack Brabham, Clark, Graham Hill, Ohkubo, Honda’s, Colin Chapman, “, ‘, ’ ”, Donald Capps Organizations: CNN, Japan CNN, Jim Clark Motorsport Museum, Indianapolis, IndyCar, Fuji International, Honda, Boys, Indy, Fuji, Japan, Nissan, Prix, Suzuka, Formula, Fuji International Speedway, Bolshoi Ballet, Leningrad Philharmonic, United States Auto, Triple Crown, Motorsport, Monaco, Nippon Auto Club, Speedway, Automotive Society of Historians Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Fuji, Scotland, New Zealand, American, Asia, America, Mie, Indianapolis

☆ Netflix's '3 Body Problem' makes some big changes from the book. Here's how the show and novels differ.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

AdvertisementNetflix's "3 Body Problem" is an adaptation of Liu Cixin's wide-ranging "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy of novels. Speaking of Yun Tianming, he got turned into Will DowningWill Downing signs on to the Stairfacer Project in "3 Body Problem." Saul is based on a character named Luo JiSaul is chosen as a Wallfacer in "3 Body Problem." The VR headsets are way simpler in the seriesJack Rooney wears a virtual reality headset in "3 Body Problem." NetflixIn "3 Body Problem," Ye Wenjie's daughter Vera Ye dies by suicide in the first episode.

Persons: Liu Cixin's, —, David Benioff, Weiss, Alexander Woo, Auggie Salazar, Ed Miller, Wang Miao, Da Shi, Salazar, Eiza González, it's Wang Miao, Wang Miao's, Jin Cheng, Jess Hong, Jin, Copernicus, Wang, she's, Netflix Wang Miao, Cheng Xin, She's, Yun Tianming, Will Downing Will Downing, Will Downing, Oxford alums, He's, Jack Rooney's, Saul, Luo Ji Saul, Netflix Saul, he's, Saul isn't, Luo Ji, they're, Ye, ETO Jonathan Pryce, Mike Evans, Tatiana, Marlo Kelly, Sophon, Evans, Shimooka, Alicia Vikander, Evan Rachel Wood, Jack Rooney, we'd, Ye Wenjie, Vera Ye, Yang Dong, Yang Weining Organizations: Service, Netflix, intel, Stairfacer, Oxford, United Nations, UN, ETO, Trisolaris Organization, Red Coast Locations: China, England, San, Red

☆ The Key Bridge was named after the national anthem’s author.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Jin Yu Young | More About Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship early Tuesday, was named after the American lawyer who wrote the lyrics of the national anthem. When the bridge opened, The New York Times reported that construction costs had totaled $141 million, which is roughly $735 million in today’s dollars. More than 12.4 million passenger and commercial vehicles crossed the bridge in 2023, according to a Maryland state government report. Francis Scott Key was believed to be near the site of the future bridge in 1814 when he observed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry, where he served as quartermaster, during the War of 1812. After the bridge opened to the public, parts of it underwent renovation several times, including a $14 million project in 1986 to repair damage, improve safety and restore the bridge’s appearance.

Persons: Francis Scott Key Organizations: The New York Times Locations: Baltimore, Maryland, Patapsco, Fort McHenry, Fort M’Henry, British

☆ '3 Body Problem' director says the 'pressure was huge' to represent Chinese history accurately on screen
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

"3 Body Problem" is a show about aliens — but before that, it's about a woman during the Cultural Revolution. AdvertisementNetflix's "3 Body Problem" is preoccupied with the far-flung reaches of the universe — but its moments of deep, historical specificity are where it thrives the most. BI spoke with the director about the pressure to authentically render Chinese history and virtual reality alike on screen. Ye Wenjie's father is beaten to death during a struggle session during the Cultural Revolution in "3 Body Problem." Derek Tsang on the "3 Body Problem" set with Jess Hong and camera operator Sean Savage.

Persons: Derek Tsang, Ye, Tsang, —, Liu Cixin's, David Benioff, Weiss, Alexander Woo, Oscar, Yu Guming, Tseng, Maria Heras, Zine Tseng, Ye Wenjie, Dave, Dan, Alex, you've, she's, It's, Ed Miller, it's, David, they're, Jess Hong, Sean Savage, Jonathan Freeman, Jonathan, Jin Cheng, We've Organizations: Service, Hong, Cultural, Netflix Locations: Hong Kong, Ye Wenjie's, Ye, London, David, China, American

☆ China vows to treat foreign firms equally as it seeks more international investment
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Guo Tingting, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, attends the China Development Forum in Beijing on March 25, 2024. "China will fully guarantee national treatment for foreign companies, so that more foreign companies can invest in China with confidence and peace of mind," Vice Commerce Minister Guo Tingting said at the China Development Forum in Beijing. China pledged on Monday to treat foreign companies the same way as domestic peers in a bid to attract more foreign investment, cooperation and expertise, as Asia's largest economy moves to upgrade and strengthen its industrial chains. In response, China has stepped up efforts to address concerns of foreign investors, pledging to protect the rights of foreign companies and promising to further enlarge entry into its markets. Over 100 overseas executives and investors have attended the annual China Development Forum since the weekend, including companies with deep supply chains in China such as Apple and Siemens .

Persons: Guo Tingting, Guo, Li Qiang, Stephen von Schuckmann, CGTN, We're, Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong, Jin, Kristalina Georgieva Organizations: Commerce, China Development Forum, Trade Organization, WTO, Sunday, ZF Group, Apple, Siemens, Industry, Information Technology, Monetary Fund's Locations: Beijing, China, consultancies, United States

☆ '3 Body Problem' doesn't have 'Game of Thrones'-level nudity — but it does have one groundbreaking nude moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewIf you're looking for nudity on par with HBO's "Game of Thrones" in the new Netflix series "3 Body Problem," you're not going to find it. That's certainly not bad — "3 Body Problem," at the moment, isn't a show that would be particularly well-served by nudity for the sake of it. Soldiers pass rolled up body after body down a line, tossing them into a body of water. "And working with the VFX team, and really knowing, 'Okay, when is the VFX team going to step in and recreate that, and when is it the responsibility of the prosthetics team to build the dried-up skin?'" "3 Body Problem" is now streaming on Netflix.

Persons: —, HBO's, Liu Cixin's, David Benioff, Weiss, Alexander Woo, That's, We've, it's, Derek Tsang, you've, Tsang, Jin Cheng, Jess Hong, Let's, she's, dehydrate, dehydrates, rehydrating Organizations: Service, Netflix, Business

☆ '3 Body Problem' hasn't been renewed for season 2 yet, but Netflix has plenty more material to draw from — here's what we know
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here's everything that we know about a potential season two of "3 Body Problem." But Woo said at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in March that they had already begun working on a second season. What would '3 Body Problem' season 2 be about? Here's where we'll really get into some spoiler territory, both for the ending of season one of "3 Body Problem" and book spoilers that might also be potential season two spoilers. "3 Body Problem" is now streaming on Netflix.

Persons: —, Liu Cixin's, Ye Wenjie, David Benioff, Weiss, Alexander Woo, they're, Benedict Wong, Ed Miller, Woo, we've, Liam Cunningham, showrunners, Benioff, Nothing's, haven't, Jess Hong, Jin Cheng, Jovan Adepo, Saul Durand, Eiza, Auggie Salazar, Wade, Clarence Shi, Marlo Kelly, Tatiana, Saamer Usmani, Raj Varma, Alex Sharp, Will Downing, we'll, Saul, Luo Ji, who's, Luo, Yu, Tseng, Maria Heras Organizations: Service, Netflix, Business, SXSW, TV Festival, Collider, United Nations Locations: China, United Kingdom

☆ The creators of '3 Body Problem' offered Barack Obama a cameo after learning he was a big fan. He turned it down in the best way possible.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Barack Obama turned down an offer to appear on Netflix's new sci-fi series "3 Body Problem." Creators David Benioff and DB Weiss tried to get him for a cameo as he is a fan of the novel. AdvertisementJin Cheng (Jess Hong) and Jack Rooney (John Bradley) star in "3 Body Problem." "3 Body Problem" is the most ambitious project from Benioff and Weiss since "Game of Thrones" wrapped with its eighth season in 2019. AdvertisementPer USA Today, Obama hasn't put in a request to check out "3 Body Problem" early.

Persons: Barack Obama, David Benioff, DB Weiss, —, Alexander Woo, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Benedict Wong, Jonathan Pryce, Benioff, Weiss, Jin Cheng, Jess Hong, Jack Rooney, Ed Miller, Obama, Liu Cixin, Barack Obama Spencer Platt, Obama hasn't Organizations: Service, Netflix, USA, The New York Times Locations: Benioff

☆ Beijing says property developers in deep trouble must go bankrupt
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

China's housing minister, Ni Hong, said real-estate developers in serious trouble should be bankrupted and restructured. Analysts suggest Beijing's priority is to ensure delivery of property projects, not to save developers. AdvertisementChina's housing minister said Beijing will not be bailing out the country's distressed property developers. China's real-estate debt crisis has already taken down property giant Evergrande, which is currently undergoing liquidation. "We view the tone on the property sector set at the 'Two Sessions' as negative," they added, referring to China's parliamentary sessions.

Persons: Ni Hong, —, Xi, Li Qiang's, Ni, Jizhou Dong, Riley Jin Organizations: Service, Authorities, Nomura Locations: China, Beijing, Hong Kong

☆ '3 Body Problem' is not 'Game of Thrones' with aliens — but it's just getting started
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Similarly, it's hard to tell how "3 Body Problem" will pan out even from its first season, which by the end still feels like it's only barely gotten started. Netflix"3 Body Problem" is based on Chinese author Liu Cixin's "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy. The modern-day storyline is less compelling — at least so farJin Cheng (Jess Hong) and Jack Rooney (John Bradley) in "3 Body Problem." "3 Body Problem" has a "Contact"-like bent, in that it attempts to use science and extraterrestrial life to interrogate the idea of God itself. But "3 Body Problem" is worth your time, if at least to see what some of television's greatest hitmakers have taken on next.

Persons: David Benioff, Weiss, Liu Cixin's, Alexander Woo, —, Benioff, Carl Sagan fan's, Ye Wenjie, Ye Zhetai, he's, she's, Wenjie, Rosalind Chao, Tseng, Derek Tsang, Jin Cheng, Jess Hong, Jack Rooney, John Bradley, Ed Miller, alums, Da Shi, Benedict Wong, Thomas Wade, Liam Cunningham, Ye, Woo, It's, Ye Wenjie's Organizations: Netflix, Service, HBO, Amazon's, Tsinghua University Locations: China, Mongolia, London, Oxford

☆ South Korea Moves to Suspend Licenses of Thousands of Protesting Doctors
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The South Korean government on Monday said that it was moving to suspend the licenses of thousands of doctors who walked off the job nearly two weeks ago, threatening to escalate a dispute that has shaken the nation’s health care system. The announcement came after thousands of physicians, nurses and medical professionals took to the streets on Sunday, rallying with banners that read: “Doctors are not criminals! For more than a month, young doctors have been in a high-stakes dispute with the government over the future of health care in the country. Nearly 10,000 interns and residents, about a tenth of all doctors in the nation, have walked off the job, with most ignoring a Thursday deadline to return to work. On Monday, the government said it would begin to suspend the licenses of around 7,000 of those doctors.

Persons: ”, Lee Haeju Organizations: South, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

☆ What to Know About the Doctor Protests in South Korea
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than a week, procedures at some of the largest hospitals in South Korea have been disrupted because thousands of medical interns and residents walked off their jobs. The dispute started in early February, when the government proposed admitting more students to medical schools to address a longstanding shortage of physicians in South Korea. The doctors then took to the streets to the protest the plan, threatening to strike or quit their jobs. Trainee doctors — who are a crucial part of large hospitals — started submitting their resignations on Feb. 19. As of Wednesday, nearly 10,000, or about 10 percent of all doctors in the country, had done so, according to government data.

Persons: ’, ’ pushback, — Locations: South Korea

☆ Tourists have returned to North Korea for the first time since the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Lilit Marcus | Mayumi Maruyama | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

American college student Otto Warmbier was detained on a North Korea trip in 2016, allegedly for stealing a propaganda poster. Courtesy Elena BychcovaRussia and North Korea’s relationshipBefore the pandemic, the largest source of inbound tourists to North Korea wasn’t Russia – it was China. The Russian ski trippers were the first tourists allowed into the hermit kingdom since the pandemic, a sign of Russia’s increasing popularity in North Korea. Now, both say they would consider going to North Korea again someday – but only if the political situation changes. “I hope traveling will save the world.”Another Russian ski trip in North Korea is slated for March 2024.

Persons: Lena Bychcova couldn’t, —, kingdom’s, Kim Jong Un, Otto Warmbier, Bychcova, Ilya Voskresensky, grandpa, Voskresensky, “, KIM, JIN, Kim Won Jin, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, ” Bychcova, Lena Bychcova, Elena Bychcova, Vladimir Putin, –, Bychcova doesn’t, ”, Kim, Putin, Anna Chernova, Mariya Knight Organizations: CNN, Koryo, ”, Getty, Intelligence, Ukraine, Korean, United, Russia, North Locations: Korea, Russian, North Korea, Tourism, United States, Pyongyang, Korean, Vladivostok, Soviet Russia, AFP, Elena Bychcova Russia, North, Russia, China, United Nations, Ukraine, Yekaterinburg, Ukrainian

☆ Émigrés Are Creating an Alternative China, One Bookstore at a Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Li Yuan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, 50 or so Chinese people packed into a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. Like them, Ms. Qiu had lived as an immigrant in Japan. Public discussions like this one used to be common in big cities in China but have increasingly been stifled over the past decade. The Chinese public is discouraged from organizing and participating in civic activities. In the past year, a new type of Chinese public life has emerged — outside China’s borders in places like Japan.

Persons: Qiu Jin, Qiu, ” Locations: Tokyo, Japan, China, China’s

☆ A Bed-Stuy Loft Transformed With an Out-of-the-Ordinary Renovation
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Tim Mckeough | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After years of renting, Jackson Owens and Flora Jin bought a loft in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and it felt like the stuff of dreams. A week or so later, it was more like a nightmare. A few floors above them there was a gas leak, then an explosion. When the sprinklers came on, many of the building’s apartments were drenched, including the couple’s new 1,200-square-foot condo, which they’d bought for about $1.1 million in July 2021. “Our unit had severe water damage,” said Mr. Owens, 32, a software engineer.

Persons: Jackson Owens, Flora Jin, they’d, ”, Owens Locations: Bedford, Stuyvesant , Brooklyn

☆ South Korean Doctors Walk Out, Protesting Plan to Increase Their Ranks
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hundreds of interns and residents at major South Korean hospitals walked off the job on Tuesday, disrupting an essential service to protest the government’s plan to address a shortage of doctors by admitting more students to medical school. While South Korea takes pride in its affordable health care system, it has among the fewest physicians per capita in the developed world. The protesters, who are doctors in training and crucial for keeping hospitals running, say the shortage of doctors is not industrywide but confined to particular specialties, like emergency care. They say the government is ignoring the issues that have made working in those areas unappealing: harsh working conditions and low wages for interns and residents. Surveys have found that in a given week, doctors in training regularly work multiple shifts that last longer than 24 hours, and that many are on the job for more than 80 hours a week.

Locations: Korea

☆ Are these the most beautiful coffee shops in the world?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( David Tran | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The Budapest Café is one of many eye-catching businesses featured in “Designing Coffee: New Coffee Places and Branding,” a coffee table book — no pun intended — that puts the world’s most photogenic, eccentric cafés and roasters on display. Its "bright, playful design and color palette transform a former dental office into a bustling and vibrant bakery café," Kingston writes in "Designing Coffee." In an increasingly competitive coffee industry, coffee shop owners are putting thoughts into how their spaces are designed. Across its ambience and menu, the Genovese Coffee House in Sydney offers Australian consumers an "espresso" ticket to Mediterranean café culture. Anson Smart/Genovese Coffee House/Courtesy gestaltenElsewhere, Genovese Coffee House (pictured above) in Sydney, Australia drew inspiration from Italian coffee culture.

Persons: James Morgan, they’re, Wes Anderson, Lani Kingston, Kingston, Mikhail Loskutov, Yuh Nguyen, Luca Rinaldi, Jamie Yelo, Urbain, Jin Weiqi, Marco Pinarelli, Julius, Damir Otegen, Karin Pasterer, Hernan Taboada, Carlos Artalejo, Xavier Alexander, Alexander, ”, “, ” Alexander, ” Kingston, David Dworkind, ” “, ’ ”, Fritz, K Kim, Angela Wijaya, Fritz Coffee, Ben Hamilton, Anson Smart, “ It’s Organizations: Budapest Cafe, CNN, Portland State University, Melrose, Rupertinum, Salzburg's Museum of Modern Art, Kingston, Fritz Coffee Company, Coffee House, Genovese Coffee, Coffee Locations: Budapest, Chengdu, China, Odessa, Ukraine, Hanoi, Vietnam, Milan, Italy, Taipei, Taiwan, Montréal, Canada, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Central Highlands, Kyiv, Ukraine's, Hong Kong, Forme, Beirut, Lebanon, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Salzburg, Austria, 220GRAD, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Caffettiera, Montreal, Asia, Seoul, South Korea, Belfast, Los Angeles, California, Sydney, Australia

☆ The Antitrust Enforcers Aimed at Big Tech. Then Came the Backlash.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Jin Yu Young | Daisuke Wakabayashi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The South Korean government unleashed a wave of panic across the internet industry: The country’s antitrust regulator said it would enact the toughest competition law outside Europe, curbing the influence of major technology companies. The Korea Fair Trade Commission, with the backing of President Yoon Suk Yeol, said in December that it planned to make a proposal modeled after the 2022 Digital Markets Act, the European Union’s landmark law to rein in American tech giants. This bill also seemed to target South Korea’s own internet conglomerates just as much as the Alphabets, Apples and Metas of the world. The commission said the law would designate certain companies as dominant platforms and limit their ability to use strongholds in one online business to expand into new areas. After a furious backlash from South Korean industry lobbyists and consumers, and even the U.S. government, the Fair Trade Commission said it would delay the bill’s formal introduction to solicit more opinions.

Persons: Yoon Suk Yeol Organizations: South, Korea Fair Trade, ., Fair Trade Commission Locations: Europe, South

☆ For Families of Itaewon Crowd Crush Victims, Verdicts Are a Bittersweet Win
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bereaved relatives of the victims of a deadly 2022 crowd crush in South Korea expressed mixed emotions this week after three former police officers were convicted of destroying evidence connected to the episode, in which nearly 160 people died in Seoul. Dissatisfaction over the slow pace of the inquiry and the perceived leniency of the sentences was mingled with relief that someone, at last, had been held to account. Though others have been indicted, these officers are the first people to be convicted of any crime related to the episode. The verdicts were an unexpected win for the victims’ family members, who had waited more than 15 months and were starting to lose faith that anyone would ever be held responsible. “It was a long wait, but it’s a meaningful outcome in that the court has clearly outlined where the police went wrong,” said Lee Jeong-min, the head of an association for the bereaved families.

Persons: ”, Lee Jeong Locations: South Korea, Seoul

☆ South Korea Halloween crush: 3 former police officers sentenced for destroying evidence
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Yoonjung Seo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Seoul, South Korea CNN —Three former police officers were sentenced in a Seoul court on Wednesday for destroying evidence related to the deadly Halloween crowd crush in the city’s Itaewon neighborhood in 2022. They are the first officers to be convicted of crimes related to the crowd crush, in which nearly 160 people were killed. The court document said Park ordered his officers to delete police reports warning of crowd-related incidents and raising public safety concerns ahead of the Halloween celebrations in 2022 shortly after the Itaewon crowd crush occurred. One of the deleted police reports stated a need for measures to prevent male police officers from hitting on women during Halloween. Most of those killed in the October 29 crush were young adults and teenagers, who were among tens of thousands of partygoers who poured into Seoul’s Itaewon district to celebrate Halloween.

Persons: Sung, Kim Jin, Young, seok, Kim Kwang Organizations: South Korea CNN —, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul’s, Seoul police Locations: Seoul, South Korea, Seoul’s

☆ Tiger Woods to make 2024 debut at the Genesis Invitational
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Tiger Woods will make his first competitive start of the year at the Genesis Invitational next week, the 15-time major winner announced on social media Wednesday. Woods, chasing his first PGA Tour win since his record-equaling 82nd triumph at the Zozo Championship in October 2019, said he was “excited” to compete in an Instagram post announcing his participation on Wednesday. Woods celebrates his most recent PGA Tour victory at the 2019 Zozo Championship in Inzai, Japan. The duo finished tied-fifth out of 20 teams formed of past major or Players Championship winners and a family member at the Ritz-Carlton Club, six shots behind the winning pairing of Bernhard Langer and his son Jason. The Players Championship, dubbed ‘the fifth major,’ tees off in March, while The Masters begins the major calendar in April.

Persons: –, LIV, Jon Rahm, Wyndham Clark, Woods, Lee Jin, Charlie, Bernhard Langer, Jason . Woods Organizations: CNN, Genesis, Los, Club, Tiger Woods Foundation, FedEx Cup, PGA, PNC, Ritz, Carlton Club, Nike Locations: Bahamas, Los Angeles, California, Inzai, Japan, Florida

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Monday acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes involving a contentious merger between Samsung affiliates in 2015 that tightened his grip over South Korea’s biggest company. The court said the prosecution failed to sufficiently prove the merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries was unlawfully conducted with an aim to strengthen Lee’s control over Samsung Electronics. Lee had denied wrongdoing in the current case, describing the 2015 merger as “normal business activity.”Lee, 56, did not answer questions from reporters as left the court. Lee Jae-yong served 18 months in prison after being convicted in 2017 over separate bribery charges related to the 2015 deal. Some shareholders had opposed the 2015 merger, saying that it unfairly benefited the Lee family while hurting minority shareholders.

Persons: Lee Jae, Lee, ” Lee, Jin Kim, Lee Kun, Park, Yoon Suk, tycoons, Kim Tong, hyung Organizations: Samsung, Korea’s, Seoul Central, Cheil Industries, Samsung Electronics, Prosecutors, South, National Pension Service Locations: SEOUL, South Korea, Seoul, Ukraine

☆ If It Isn’t Perfect, Is It Still K-Pop?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What comes to mind when you hear the word “K-pop”? Is it the global boy band phenomenon BTS, wearing studded jackets and dancing in perfect sync? Or the girl group Blackpink, performing at Coachella in trendy fashions and perfectly curled hair? “Give me some more bass,” said Omega Sapien, a vocalist with electric-green hair and grills, swaying his hips and grunting to the beat. The studio was cluttered with art, vinyl records, dumbbells and other odds and ends.

Persons: ”, Omega Sapien Organizations: Coachella Locations: Seoul

What It Took Young People in China to Get Their Jobs Not long ago, China’s economy was the envy of the world. We spoke to five young Chinese about what it took to find their jobs amid such uncertainty. Now, those boom years are fading, as are many young people’s hopes — with unpredictable consequences for China and the world. Ethan Yi, Class of 2022Qilai Shen for The New York TimesLooking back, Ethan Yi thinks he had been a little entitled, or at least naive. “I think it’s not good for young people to be too comfortable,” she said.

Persons: ”, hesitating, —, people’s, Nadia Yang, Fiona Qin, Qilai Shen, Ethan Yi, Yi, “, Phoebe Liu, Gilles Sabrié, Liu, ” Tsuki Jin, The New York Times Tsuki Jin, Jin, Ms Organizations: The New York Times Locations: China, Beijing, Shanghai

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