Almost 90 per cent of submissions received about the proposed redevelopment of Hong Kong’s historic flower market opposed the scheme, the city’s urban planning body has said. In a report published last Wednesday, the Town Planning Board (TPB) said it had received 767 representations during a two-month period of public inspection from mid-August to mid-October. […]
After months of opposition, US President Joe Biden on Friday blocked the proposed buyout of the United States Steel Corporation, or US Steel, by Japan’s Nippon Steel. The second-largest US steelmaker had previously approved the $14.9-billion (€14.5-billion) takeover bid, saying it would help protect the ailing firm from intense competition from abroad, including China. Nippon Steel had hoped the acquisition […]
(ANALYSIS) Time for a little Baptist history lesson! The most important person in early American Baptist history was a guy named Roger Williams. He was born in England in the early 1600s. He had a dramatic conversion to Christianity in his youth and started identifying as a Puritan. This meant his faith was out of […]
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s party vowed Thursday to oppose efforts to impeach him over his failed attempt to impose martial law in the East Asian democracy, as opposition lawmakers said they would vote on the motion on Saturday. The announcement of the timing of the vote came as Yoon […]
WILLCOX, Ariz (CN) — As the land beneath them sinks and cracks due to excessive groundwater pumping, ranchers in southern Arizona still overwhelmingly oppose state-mandated water use restrictions. In a public meeting Friday, ranchers from Willcox, Pearce and other communities in the Willcox Basin, which spans nearly 2,000 square miles in Cochise and Graham Counties, […]