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UK insurer Prudential reported a strong set of operating results for 2023 as the return of mainland Chinese visitors to Hong Kong boosted life insurance policy sales after the city eased the curbs imposed at the time of the Covid-19 outbreak. Net profit, which Prudential calls IFRS profit after tax, reached US$1.71 billion in 2023, […]
(The Center Square) – Military experts argue the use of “migrant warfare” by Mexican cartels has created the border crisis, which they say is not about immigration. The warning comes as the greatest number of foreign nationals have illegally entered the southwest and northern borders, including suspected . . .
What’s Inside The Coresight Research weekly US Consumer Survey Insights series takes a regular temperature check on US consumers’ behaviors and sentiment, based on exclusive proprietary survey data. In this report, our latest findings are from a survey conducted on November 27, 2023. We explore consumer shopping behavior over Black Friday weekend and discuss new […]
The story of how Long Nguyen, a talented scientist at the University of Chicago, came into the field of medical research begins during his childhood. Both of his parents were medical doctors who spent decades helping patients, including those battling cancer, in Vietnam after many decades of war. Inspired by their unwavering commitment, Nguyen pursued […]
Estimation of the attractiveness score for each species We used a dataset of bird visual aesthetic attractiveness to humans covering almost all extant bird species13. We refer . . .
BEIJING, Sept 22 (Reuters) – U.S. incentives to boost consumption of more environmentally friendly fuel has created a new market for used Chinese cooking oil, worth almost $390 million in the last 12 months and growing rapidly, China’s customs data shows. China has been shipping more waste oil to the U.S. since October 2022, two […]
Occupational Segregation Drives Persistent Inequality, Study Says The New York Times Source link
AI in brief Nvidia’s second-generation A100 GPUs, currently the subject of export controls that mean they’re not for sale in China, can fetch up to $20,000 in black markets – double the regular price. Last year, the Department of Commerce blocked top US hardware companies, including Nvidia and AMD, from selling their most advanced chips […]
Wright State students visited sites in Ohio that were important to the Civil Rights Movement during a bus trip for the course The Roots of the American Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest and Heartland taught by Tracy Snipe, professor of political science. A Wright State University bus trip around Ohio was not the usual […]
Hong Kong(CNN) Sandwiched between two Pacific superpowers, the Philippines has long had to tread delicately when it comes to dealing with Beijing and Washington’s competing interests, a complex juggling act that has been on vivid display in recent weeks. April has been a particularly busy month for Philippine diplomacy with the country hosting its largest […]