Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze: England and Barcelona duo on how moving to Spain has changed their game and the Women’s World Cup
After last summer’s victorious European Championships, England Women duo Keira Walsh and Lucy Bronze both left WSL club Manchester City for European powerhouse, Barcelona. Already considered among the best in their respective positions in the women’s game, the pair have added the LigaF title and Champions League trophy to their ever-growing cabinet. Although Walsh admits […]
Marcos and the media: Platitudes, but what else again?
MANILA, Philippines – Many feared what the Philippines’ media landscape – already battered from the time of former president Rodrigo Duterte and social media algorithms that favor fallacies and segregation over the truth and shared realities – would look like under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s term. His father, during the Martial Law years, had been […]
Zhang Yimou to Make Series Debut
ZHANG SERIES DEBUT Zhang Yimou, China’s most enduring filmmaker, is joining the worldwide shift by feature film directors into the streaming arena. Zhang, who directed “Full River Red,” the most successful film of 2023 in China, is to be involved with his first TV series. He will executive produce “The First Shot,” his representatives confirmed […]
Every Panel Worth Checking Out At Anime Expo 2023
As the self-proclaimed largest anime convention in the world, Anime Expo 2023 has a bunch of world premieres and panels taking place across the four-day event at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 1 to July 4. Sprinkled in between its big main stage events, featuring big-name anime studios like Mappa, Wit, and Trigger, […]
Every Panel Worth Checking Out At Anime Expo 2023
As the self-proclaimed largest anime convention in the world, Anime Expo 2023 has a bunch of world premieres and panels taking place across the four-day event at the Los Angeles Convention Centre from July 1 to July 4. Sprinkled in between its big main stage events, featuring big-name anime studios like Mappa, Wit, and Trigger, […]
Biden Mocked Over Gaffe About Putin’s War in Iraq
President Joe Biden was mocked online Wednesday after an errant comment about Russian leader Vladimir Putin‘s “war in Iraq”—a country whose capital sits approximately 1,200 miles away from the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Numerous figures on the right—including the Republican National Committee’s press arm—mocked the mistake on social media. One prominent Trump supporter said in […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
<!–> SAN ANTONIO (AP) – Simone Biles is back. –> The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event […]
Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
Simone Biles is back. The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. USA Gymnastics announced Wednesday that Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and the 2016 Olympic champion, is part of the women’s field for the single-day event […]
Modi US visit: Why even sky is not the limit for this expanding partnership
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the United States from 21 to 23 June 2023 for the eighth time during his tenure. The visit symbolized the dynamism of the India-US partnership and the importance that Prime Minister Modi attaches to relations with Washington. In his nine years in office, Prime Minister Modi has travelled most often […]
Influencing the week: From Miss World Australia to Million Dollar Island – welcome to Annaliese Gann’s world
Annaliese Gann may look familiar. Not only has the model and influencer appeared on First Dates Australia, she’s also a hot contender for the Miss World Australia pageant and battled it out on Million Dollar Island, sadly eliminated on Monday night’s episode. In the spotlight: Gann’s 110k Instagram followers include fellow Perth influencers Zak Hasleby, […]
How Shein’s influencer trip to a Chinese factory backfired
As Shein eyes an IPO, the company’s image needs a serious makeover. From stealing indie designers’ work, to violating local labor laws, Shein has fallen out of vogue on social media, so the company invited a group of influencers to tour one of its factories in Guangzhou, China. “I expected the facility to be so […]
Supreme Court unanimously disbars antipoverty czar Larry Gadon over ‘abusive’ remarks vs journalist
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 28) — The Supreme Court has unanimously disbarred newly appointed Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation Larry Gadon over a viral video where he is seen hurling expletives against a journalist. In a statement issued Wednesday, the high court said the video showed Gadon’s “misogynistic, sexist, abusive, and repetitive intemperate language” […]
Turkey arrests prominent TV journalist over criticizing Ocalan’s isolation
ANKARA — Turkish authorities arrested on Tuesday prominent Turkish journalist Merdan Yanardag over criticizing the government-imposed isolation on imprisoned Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan. The arrest was made following his detention by Turkish police on Monday, and an arrest warrant issued by the Istanbul court. Speaking in a live broadcast last week, Yanardag, editor-in-chief of […]
Xbox’s proposal to acquire Sega actually supports its FTC arguments – here’s how
Microsoft’s attempts to buy up Activision-Blizzard continues unabated, with an epic court case against the FTC in the United States. Microsoft is trying to pick up the makers of Call of Duty, Diablo, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush for an astronomical $69 billion dollars. The deal has been under some intense regulatory pressure across […]
Giant Nick Wilde Plush Coming Soon to shopDisney Japan
A giant plush of Nick Wilde from “Zootopia” will soon be available for pre-order on shopDisney Japan. The plush depicts Nick in his classic green Hawaiian shirt, blue and red striped tie, and gray pants. He may not look big at first, but he stands at 47 inches or 120 cm tall. Nick’s fox tail […]
Lewis Capaldi announces break after emotional Glastonbury set
Singer Lewis Capaldi has announced he will be taking a break from touring “for the foreseeable future”, saying he is “still learning to adjust to the impact of my Tourette’s.” It comes after the star struggled during his set at Glastonbury Festival over the weekend, with fans in the crowd singing for him as he […]
TikTok to let parents filter out videos they don’t want their children to see
TikTok has launched the ability for parents and guardians to filter out videos they don’t want their children to see. The feature is an addition to the app’s family pairing functionality, which allows adults to link their account to their teenager’s for control of settings like screen time limits. TikTok‘s users could already dictate content […]
Japanese government approves proposal to let women buy morning-after pills without prescription
Ministry committee wants to speed up the process by which women can obtain pills. Morning-after pills are available in Japan, where they’re known as “after pills” or kinkyuhininyaku (meaning “urgent contraceptive medicine”). In practice, though, they process of obtaining them is time-consuming enough to render them all but meaningless. Under current Japanese laws, the only […]
Philippine job agencies cheating women with illegal fees and crippling loans
Employment agencies and money-lending companies in the Philippines are cheating women applying for jobs abroad out of thousands of pounds by charging illegal fees paid with high-interest loans, interviews and documents show. Interviews with hundreds of women and thousands of pages of complaints compiled by a migrant rights organisation showed job agencies charged applicants training […]
JA Solar Receives Top Brand PV Award for European Market from EUPD Research
BEIJING, June 26, 2023 /CNW/ — On June 14, JA Solar was awarded Top Brand PV for the European market from EUPD Research at its booth, with Chairman of EUPD Research, Markus A.W. Hoehner, and Jin Baofang, Chairman of JA Solar, both attending the certification ceremony. Top Brand PV is awarded by world-renowned authoritative research […]
PetroCanada issues may be ‘tip of the iceberg’ after Suncor cybersecurity incident
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. falling victim to a cyberattack may be the most significant cybersecurity breach of an oil and gas company thus far in Canadian history, experts say. The Calgary-based oil company has provided no details about the attack or which parts of its operations were affected, saying simply in a news release […]
PetroCanada issues may be ‘tip of the iceberg’ after Suncor cybersecurity incident
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. falling victim to a cyberattack may be the most significant cybersecurity breach of an oil and gas company thus far in Canadian history, experts say. The Calgary-based oil company has provided no details about the attack or which parts of its operations were affected, saying simply in a news release […]
Sequoia Made a Fortune Investing in the U.S. and China. Then It Had to Pick One.
Scrutiny of Sequoia’s China ventures had been rising in Washington for months, with officials and members of Congress hammering the firm for bankrolling Chinese technology competitors and potentially boosting China’s military. Then, last summer, Sequoia’s China arm tapped American investors to raise a record $8.5 billion to pour into promising Chinese companies, and the pressure […]