EXCLUSIVE: Bernard Chan, a top adviser to Carrie Lam, says he’s “very optimistic” Hong Kong will reopen to the world within the next year trib.al/AwWEI2j
“I’m very hopeful as more data shows the omicron variant’s incubation period is actually much shorter, that perhaps we can aim for a shorter quarantine time,” Bernard Chan, a top adviser to Hong Kong’s leader says trib.al/HGwPpC4
“We all want to end this thing as soon as we can,” Bernard Chan, a top adviser to Hong Kong’s leader, says on Hong Kong's inbound travel restrictions. trib.al/HGwPpC4
When asked if Hong Kong could reopen within the next year, Bernard Chan, a top adviser to the city’s leader, says once the city had a “fully vaccinated community” and a better knowledge of omicron he was “very optimistic” it could meet that target trib.al/HGwPpC4
LATEST: Hong Kong will report more than 1,100 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, as the city’s worsening outbreak prompts the government to roll out its toughest ever pandemic measures trib.al/MNWEePj
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Russia's 15-year-old skating star Kamila Valieva, who landed historic quad jumps at the Olympics, reportedly tested positive for a banned substance. She was seen at practice on Thursday. trib.al/GaHHQon
“She is not suspended,” Russian figure skating federation spokeswoman Olga Ermolina says, with no further detail.
Russia's 15-year-old Kamila Valieva landed historic quad jumps at the Olympics and has reportedly tested positive for a banned substance. trib.al/0tn2Ji4
Here's a look at the drug that Kamila Valieva of the Russia Olympic Committee — the name under which Russia is competing because of previous doping violations — is suspected of taking, and how the situation might play out in coming days. trib.al/KcJBTZK
So how do we know what the price of nails was back then? And what can such a long-term look tell us about innovation in such a seemingly simple product?
.@evabeylin knows crypto as both an investor and a builder.
As an investor, she's part of the amorphous investment collective known as eGirl Capital, and on the building side, she's the director of The Graph Foundation trib.al/EFjHKd9
For @evabeylin, a true Web3 app is "open, permission-less, and decentralized."
She explains more of her projects and what things look like in this current moment on #OddLotstrib.al/EFjHKd9
What happened to Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily is starting to look less like an exception and more like a template for Beijing's crackdown trib.al/AzbnZhL
In June 2021, when 500 police officers showed up at Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily, China revealed just how far it's willing to go to stamp out its opposition—and increasingly opposition isn't just limited to the media trib.al/AzbnZhL
The government made sure, when it moved against Apple Daily, that there was no way for it to survive.
Within days, the paper’s parent company Next Digital had been forced into a kind of state-sponsored bankruptcy trib.al/AzbnZhL
The cattle industry and rainforest destruction are inextricably intertwined. While Brazilian beef makes its way to plates around the world, the Amazon is paying the price.
The world’s biggest beef producer, JBS, markets itself as a friend of the environment and says it’s committed to ridding its supply chain of animals born or raised on deforested land in the Amazon trib.al/5QAmrf9
But the beef industry’s aggressive expansion is overwhelmingly responsible for the rainforest’s destruction, and JBS has bought more cattle coming out of the biome than any other company trib.al/5QAmrf9