Students at breaking point: Hong Kong announces emergency measures after 22...
It is a statistic that is as alarming, as it is baffling. Since the start of the academic year, a spike in the number of students in Hong Kong who have committed suicide has seen 22 young people – one...
View ArticleStudents at breaking point: surge in Hong Kong suicides rings alarm bells
It is a statistic that is as alarming, as it is baffling. Since the start of the academic year, a spike in the number of students in Hong Kong who have committed suicide has seen 22 young people – one...
View ArticleReview into spate of suicides in Hong Kong should be expedited
Having 22 young people take their own lives in half a year should ring alarm bells in any society, even more so when the last four cases happened within five days. Such concerns have been reflected...
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PRESS RELEASE Thursday 23 March 2017 For immediate release SECURE TRUST BANK PLC Audited Final Results for the year to 31 December 2016 A year of tremendous progress delivers record profits Secure...
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RNS Number : 9091Y HSBC Holdings PLC 08 March 2017 Connecting customers to opportunities Our purpose is to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and ultimately...
View ArticleOld Mutual plc 2016 Preliminary Results - Part 1
Contents News Release 1 Part 1 - 2016 Annual Review 5 Group Executive Review 6 Group Review 6 Business review 8 Capital management policy 10 Adjusted plc NAV 10 Board changes 10 Outlook 10 Part 2 -...
View ArticleMurray International Trust PLC - Annual Financial Report
MURRAY INTERNATIONAL TRUST PLC ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016 1. STRATEGIC REPORT - COMPANY SUMMARY AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Financial Highlights Net asset value total...
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(Source: Murray International Trust plc) MURRAY INTERNATIONAL TRUST PLC ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2015 1. STRATEGIC REPORT - COMPANY SUMMARY AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS...
View Article1940’s: Scramble for Darjeeling – Part II
D S Gurung 1940’s: Scramble for Darjeeling – Part II Writes Sudha Sidhaarth Tamang While assessing the pros and cons of ‘The Chief Commissioners Province’, it was; without a second thought the most...
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RNS Number : 4841Z Cape plc 15 March 2017 15 March 2017 Cape plc ("Cape" or "the Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") Preliminary Results Cape plc (CIU.LN), an international...
View ArticleMolecular Population Genetics [Ecology and Evolution]
Abstract Molecular population genetics aims to explain genetic variation and molecular evolution from population genetics principles. The field was born 50 years ago with the first measures of genetic...
View ArticleHere's what Islamic State actually believes and what it means for fighting them
Screen grabISIS militants pose during a video. What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western...
View ArticleThe Bravery To Be Vulnerable
An experiment in #100DaysofVulnerability Six years ago, I went through a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation course. It was easily, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not the silence mind you....
View ArticleGo to the press room... (Paralyzed Veterans of America National)
(Source: Paralyzed Veterans of America National) Paralyzed Veterans of America Educates Hundreds of Spinal Cord Injury and Disease Health Care Professionals at 6th Annual Summit & EXPO Learn more...
View ArticleThe Good Soldier: Why a Suicidal Officer Had to Go AWOL to Save His Life
Lawrence Franks was an officer who went AWOL rather than commit suicide, and he has been punished in what many view as an unusually harsh way. United States Military Academy That Sunday night, March...
View ArticleHSBC Holdings Plc (HSBC) Q4 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
HSBC Holdings Plc (NYSE:HSBC) Q4 2016 Earnings Call February 21, 2017 2:30 am ET Executives Douglas Jardine Flint - HSBC Holdings Plc Stuart Thomson Gulliver - HSBC Holdings Plc Iain James Mackay -...
View ArticleHow Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm
Zeh Fernando / Flickr A mother leaves her son in the car while popping into a store at a strip mall. She is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A high school senior complains to...
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St. James's Place PLC -1- ST. JAMES'S PLACE PLC 27 St. James's Place, London SW1A 1NR Telephone 020 7493 8111 Facsimile 020 7493 2382 PRESS RELEASE 28 February 2017 ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL RESULTS FOR...
View ArticleWhitney Houston doc, Rami Malek and Al Pacino movies headed to Tribeca Film...
The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival has unveiled the initial line-up for its upcoming 16th annual showcase, with a diverse mix of entertaining features and documentaries. Among the highlights of Thursday’s...
View ArticleWill Self on the meaning of skyscrapers – from the Tower of Babel to the Shard
When it comes to skyscrapers I am, in the proper sense of the word, ambivalent: I hate them for all the obvious reasons – sometimes a cigar may be just a cigar, but a skyscraper is always a big swaying...
View ArticleWill Self on the meaning of skyscrapers
Skyscrapers are all too evidently phallic symbols, monuments to capitalism and icons of hubris. Yet Will Self can’t help but love them. He explores their significance – from JG Ballard to Mad Men, and...
View Article2017 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) August 30, 2016 | Special Report on Economic Freedom 2017 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom By James M. Roberts, William T. Wilson, Ph.D., Diane Katz, Anthony B. Kim,...
View ArticlePRIME MINISTER BOYKO BORISSOV: BULGARIA, ROMANIA, AND SERBIA - WE HAVE THE...
(Source: Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria) PRIME MINISTER BOYKO BORISSOV: BULGARIA, ROMANIA, AND SERBIA - WE HAVE THE CHANCE TO REALIZE PROJECTS BENEFICIAL FOR BOTH US AND THE WHOLE OF...
View ArticleFinal Results (Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust plc)
(Source: Fundsmith Emerging Equities Trust plc) RNS Number : 6170S Fundsmith Emerging Equities Tst PLC 18 March 2016 FUNDSMITH EMERGING EQUITIES TRUST plc Audited Results for the Year ended 31 December...
View Article“This Crooked System”
Summary I have no hope of getting justice in this crooked system. —Umar Daraz, Karachi, January 2016 How do you expect us to recover stolen items from hardened criminals? Do you think they will agree...
View ArticleUTSA centennial honors renowned, late Congress Henry B. Gonzalez (UTSA - The...
(Source: UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio) Civic leaders honor renowned public figure Henry B. Gonzalez 05.04.16 Photo credit: Camille Garcia, Rivard Report On May 3, 2016, civic leaders,...
View ArticleClosed Doors
Summary Gang violence has plagued Central America’s “Northern Triangle” countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras for more than a decade. Children are particularly targeted by gangs in these...
View ArticleScottish Mortgage Inv Tst PLC - Circular and Annual Financial Report...
(Source: Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust plc) Chairman's statement I am pleased to say that the Scottish Mortgage portfolio has continued to produce good long term returns for shareholders. The past...
View ArticlePrudential plc - FY16 Results - Business Review
NEWS RELEASE PRUDENTIAL PLC GROUP COMMUNICATIONS 12 ARTHUR STREET LONDON EC4R 9AQ TEL 020 7220 7588 FAX 020 7548 3725 www.prudential.co.uk 14 March 2017 PRUDENTIAL PLC FULL YEAR 2016 RESULTS RECORD...
View ArticleIndependent Review - Moncton Shooting - June 4, 2014 (Royal Canadian Mounted...
(Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Submitted by: Assistant Commissioner Alphonse MacNeil (ret'd) Note: Throughout the document ***** denotes where content was redacted as per the Access to...
View Article“Just Let Us Be”
Summary [Senator and boxing legend] Manny Pacquiao says we’re not human. They should just let us be. – Edgar T., an 18-year-old gay high school student in Manila, February 2017 Schools should be safe...
View ArticleTribeca 2017 Announces Feature Film Line Up for Competition, Spotlight,...
An exciting slate of films that showcases the full breadth of contemporary filmmaking across a wide range of styles will premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T. Today, we've...
View ArticlePC Epidemic Grips U.S. Colleges (Tea Party Inc)
(Source: Tea Party Inc) Students increasingly demand protection from 'offensive' words, ideas, subjects (Atlantic) - Something strange is happening at America's colleges and universities. A movement is...
View ArticlePrudential plc - HY16 Results - Business Review (Prudential plc)
(Source: Prudential plc) NEWS RELEASE London,10 August 2016 PRUDENTIAL PLC 2016 HALF YEAR RESULTS ASIA DRIVES GROWTH AND CASH GENERATION Performance Highlights on a constant (and actual) exchange rate...
View ArticleAnnouncement of Final Results (The Renewables Infrastructure Group Ltd)
(Source: The Renewables Infrastructure Group Ltd) The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited Announcement of Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2016 21 February 2017 The Directors of The...
View ArticleProtecting Schools from Military Use
Introduction This report collects recent and historic examples of laws, court decisions, military orders, policies, and practice by governments, armed forces, non-state armed groups, and courts aimed...
View ArticleSystemic Indifference
Summary On April 6, 2015, Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, a 44-year-old citizen of El Salvador, died at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in Palmdale, California, of organ failure, with signs of widespread...
View ArticleMurray International Trust PLC - Annual Financial Report (Murray...
(Source: Murray International Trust plc) RNS Number : 9593G Murray International Trust PLC 10 March 2015 MURRAY INTERNATIONAL TRUST PLC ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014 1....
View ArticleLoughinisland pub massacre: Full 2016 Police Ombudsman report into 1994...
The Police Ombudsman has found that collusion was a "significant feature" of the 1994 Loughinisland murders. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 18 June 1994, six people were brutally murdered and five people were...
View Article16 Mar 2016 Preliminary Results (Cape plc)
(Source: Cape plc) 16 March 2016 Cape plc ('Cape' or the 'Group') Preliminary results for the twelve months to 31 December 2015 Cape plc, the international provider of critical support services to the...
View ArticleThe most unmissable culture of 2016
Tarantino goes bounty-hunting, Botticelli takes you to hell, Bowie goes dark, and Jericho fills that Downton-shaped hole … in our bumper guide to the best 150 arts events to look forward to this year...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleTrumpâs Interests vs. Americaâs, Vancouver Edition
As the first (and, so far, only) Trump-branded property to open since the election, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver has prompted significant scrutiny. When it opened just five days...
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Summary On a Friday afternoon in October 2015, Luciana Caroline Albuquerque Bezerra, the executive secretary of health surveillance for the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, received a call from her boss,...
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