• China's Ships Are Winning the Battle for Energy in South China Sea

    By Philip Heijmans (Bloomberg) — This was supposed to be the year that Vietnam reaped the benefits from one of its largest natural gas discoveries. An estimated 150 billion cubic meters

  • Why Cole Palmer's move from Manchester City to Chelsea was the rare win-win-win-win-win for all parties

    As City and Chelsea square off in the FA Cup quarterfinals Palmer has the

  • The Losing A’s Found a Winning City to Host Them

    The Oakland A’s are baseball’s biggest losers. But their new temporary home—West Sacramento—is one of California’s greatest winners. No California city has had a better 21st century than West Sacramento. The municipality of 54,000 people has grown in population and prosperity with striking speed, even as California has stagnated on both fronts. The A’s will spend three years, 2025 through 2027, in West Sacramento’s minor league ballpark as the team waits for a new stadium to be built in their...

  • Sheffield City Council elections: big battle ahead in Graves Park

    Graves Park ward has been a strong basis for the Liberal Democrats but as Cllr Ian Auckland is retiring the seat is up for grabs. The Lib Dems are trying to keep the ward as an all-orange one – they’ve got all three councillors at the moment – but it will not be easy, as we already mentioned in our Sheffield battlegrounds article. The Liberal Democrats will try to win with Tariq Zaman. He said: “I grew up and have lived locally for the past 46 years, and my children attended local schools. I...

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    Pearl City’s Kai Kamaka III wins PFL debut

    Pearl City's Kai Kamaka III successfully made his PFL debut in Chicago,

  • Beijing half marathon hit by controversy as China’s He Jie allowed to win

    Investigation launched after trio appear to let He cross line firstKenya’s Willy Mnangat says they were all hired as pacemakers Organisers of the Beijing half marathon are investigating the men’s race after two Kenyans and one Ethiopian runner appeared to deliberately allow China’s He Jie to win.Footage of the final few hundred metres of the race seemingly shows Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat of Kenya and Ethiopia’s Dejene Hailu Bikila slow down and gesture in front of them, encouraging He to...

  • Organisers of Beijing half marathon look into ’embarrassing’ win by China’s He Jie

    Beijing half marathon organisers said Monday they were investigating after footage shared widely online appeared to show three African runners deliberately allowing China’s He Jie to win. Video clips of Sunday’s race showed the Kenyans Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat, Dejene Hailu of Ethiopia and home runner He approaching the finish. The three African runners […]

  • Locals check out Duke City Foodie Fest at Cliff’s Amusement Park

    The event takes place over the weekend.

  • A third of China's urban population at risk of city sinking, new satellite data shows

    Land subsidence is overlooked as a hazard in cities, according to scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Virginia Tech. Writing in the journal Science, Prof Robert Nicholls of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research at UEA and Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech and United Nations University for Water, Environment and Health, Ontario, highlight the importance of a new research paper analyzing satellite data that accurately and consistently maps land movement across...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Sundance moving? Park City-based film festival to consider new U.S. locations

    PARK CITY, Utah, April 17, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Sundance Institute on Wednesday announced it has begun a process that will allow it to consider other U.S. locations for the festival. On Tuesday, it opened a Request for Information (RFI), to be followed May 1 by a request for proposals (RFP) “to explore viable locations […] The post Sundance moving? Park City-based film festival to consider new U.S. locations first appeared on Gephardt Daily.