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As well as celebrating the year in movies, the annual extravaganza has long been the red carpet event of the year. Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesTeo Yoo. Alberto Rodriguez/Variety/Getty ImagesJamie Lee Curtis looked elegant in a flowing black gown by Dolce & Gabbana. Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesLeah Lewis, star of Best Animated Feature “Elemental,” looked dreamy in a layered Lever Couture gown featuring a whimsical train. Marleen Moise/Getty ImagesTaylor Zakhar Perez popped on the red carpet with a blue Prada suit styled by leading celebrity stylist Jason Bolden.

Persons: Margot Robbie who’s, “ Barbie ”, Colman Domingo, America Ferrera, Billie Eilish, Zendaya, Danielle Brooks, Mike Coppola, Andrea Riseborough, Loewe, Alberto Rodriguez, Ferrera, Richard Shotwell, Steinfeld, Elie, Sarah Meyssonnier, Huy Quan, Giorgio Armani, Jordan Strauss, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons Jordan Strauss, Louis, David Yurman, Laverne Cox, David Swanson, Issa Rae, Mark Ronson, Grace Gummer, Kevin Mazur, Teo Yoo, Barbie, Simu Liu, Sean Lennon, Kemp Muhl, Gilbert Flores, Sandra Hüller, Cartier, Justine Triet Jordan Strauss, AP Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade Kevin Mazur, Ludwig Göransson Kevin Mazur, Masaki Takahashi, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko, Christina, Eva Longoria’s, Tamara Ralph, Rita Moreno, Reuters D'Pharaoh Woon, Chasinghorse, Jamie Lee Curtis, Omar Rudberg, Sarah Morris, WireImage, Sean Wang, Chang Li Hua, Sam Davis, Yi Yan Fuei, Chang, Yi, Leah Lewis, Gregg DeGuire, Dominic Sessa, Tom Ford, Celine Song, Reuters Marlee Matlin, Oscar, dazzled, Raymond, Marleen Moise, Ramakrishnan, Zuhair Murad, Getty, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Jason Bolden, Erika Alexander Organizations: CNN, Dolby Theatre, Hollywood’s, America, Dolce, Gabbana, Elie Saab, Louis Vuitton, Getty, AMI Paris, Variety, AP, Los Angeles Times, Reuters Locations: AFP

In it, Wang films Yi and Chang going about their daily lives with bits of playfulness mixed in. “But now that we made this movie and it’s going to the Oscars, we do kind of feel like movie stars. “That’s kind of why we made this movie,” Wang says. “We’re going to the Oscars and I’m going with my grandmas,” Wang says, smiling. Says Wang: “They’re offer only.”___Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP___For more on this year’s Oscars, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards

Persons: Sean Wang’s, Yi Yan Fuei, Chang Li Hua, Wang, Yi, Chang, Sean, “ Wài, Nǎi, ”, Wài, ” Chang, Zoom, Oscar, wasn’t Bradley Cooper's, Emma Stone’s, Sam Davis, that’d, ” Yi, ” Wang, “ It’s, they’ve, “, Miles, voicemails, “ We’re, Will Ang Lee, Says Wang, Jake Coyle Organizations: Bay Area, Academy, Disney, SXSW, Sundance Film, Sundance, U.S, Focus Locations: Bay, Los Angeles, Taiwan, Taiwanese, New York

☆ This millennial directed his 94- and 83-year-old grandmothers for a movie—it's now nominated for an Oscar
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Chang Li Hua and Yi Yan Fuei are the stars of "Nai Nai and Wai Po," the Oscar-nominated documentary short now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. Sean Wang has always believed his grandmothers were movie stars — and now they have an Oscar nomination to prove it. Wang, 29, is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose film "Nai Nai and Wai Po" (which translates to "grandma and grandma" in Mandarin Chinese) is up for Best Documentary Short Film for the 96th Academy Awards. The days we spend feeling joy and the days we spend feeling pain are the same days spent. One line from his Nai Nai was particularly resonant: "The days we spend feeling joy and the days we spend feeling pain are the same days spent.

Persons: Chang Li Hua, Yi Yan Fuei, Oscar, Sean Wang, —, Wang, Yan Fuei, Wai Po, he'd, Yi, Chang, Yi Yan, There's Organizations: Disney, SXSW Locations: Wai, Los Angeles, Fremont , Calif, New York City, U.S

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Environmental activists voiced disappointment Wednesday at Malaysia's decision to allow Lynas Rare Earths to continue operations until March 2026, and demanded more transparency on plans by the Australian miner to extract a radioactive element from its growing waste. It called for details of the Lynas study to be made public. While the government is keen to profit from the rare earths industry, this cannot be at the expense of people’s health and the environment, it added. Rare earths are 17 minerals used to make products such as electric or hybrid vehicles, weapons, flat-screen TVs, mobile phones, mercury-vapor lights and camera lenses. Lynas has said its refinery could meet nearly a third of world demand for rare earths, excluding China.

Persons: Lynas, Jan, Wong Tack, ”, Chang Lih Kang, Chang Organizations: —, Earth, Science, . Science Locations: KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Pahang, Earth Malaysia, Malaysian, China, Lynas

☆ Rare-earths miner Lynas jumps as Malaysia allows key plant extension
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Rishav Chatterjee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A small toy figure and mineral imitation are seen in front of the Lynas Rare Earths logo in this illustration taken November 19, 2021. The licence extension comes despite concerns raised in recent years by Malaysia regarding radiation levels from the cracking and leaching operations during raw material processing. Science and technology minister Chang Lih Kang said Lynas will be allowed to import radioactive material and continue processing rare earths, provided the firm carries out thorium extraction to remove radioactive waste. The brokerage also lifted its price target on the biggest rare earths miner outside of China by 3% to A$7.70 and upgraded the earnings outlook for a near-term period. Lynas' Malaysia refinery, its first outside China, has been embroiled in a radiation dispute at the plant with Lynas challenging an earlier ruling that would have halted operations.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Chang Lih Kang, Lynas, Rishav Chatterjee, Janane Organizations: REUTERS, Lynas, Macquarie, Malaysian, Thomson Locations: Malaysia, Lynas Malaysia, Pahang, China, Western Australia, Bengaluru

☆ China’s Catch-22 situation for the economy – and how to invest around it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A look through China's economy today reveals a few dilemmas, especially for investors trying to gauge future growth. The nature of China's economic recovery over the last few months from Covid have unique characteristics that aren't easily captured in broad strokes, Goldman Sachs' Andrew Tilton and a team pointed out back in late May. That means the stock winners of China's recovery are likely hidden under broader market performance. One month since Goldman's assessment, China's economic trajectory remains the same. "If weak confidence becomes so entrenched, it could be self-fulling and derail the economic recovery."

Persons: outflows, Michael Pettis, Chang Li, There's, — it's, Goldman Sachs, Andrew Tilton, Covid, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Peking University, CNBC, Citi, AIA, Hong Locations: U.S, China, Hong Kong, Shenzhen

SYDNEY/BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The rising alarm over COVID-19 spreading in China was felt in pharmacies in Hong Kong, Macau, and in some neighbourhoods in Australia, as people hunted for fever medicines and virus test kits to send to family and friends on the mainland. Several shops have since imposed limits on how much customers can buy, and drugmakers are ramping up production. They like to hoard medicines before they even get sick," said a doctor in Shanghai. "I have friends in Beijing who asked me to send over some flu medicines and rapid tests. And the government-backed Sinopharm Group has tripled daily production capacity of key drugs, state run CCTV reported, due to a sharp increase in demand for medicines to treat fever and cough symptoms.

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