Asia Pacific|China Warns Hong Kong Protesters Not to ‘Take Restraint for Weakness’ImageRiot police officers fired tear gas on Monday during a clash with protesters in the Wong Tai Sin district of Hong Kong.CreditCreditLam Yik Fei for The New York TimesHONG KONG — An official in Beijing on Tuesday issued China’s sternest denunciation yet of the…
China has crossed the renminbi-con.The value of China's currency, the renminbi, has weakened past seven renminbi to one U.S. dollar. If you wished to buy an American dollar with China's currency, in other words, it would cost you more than seven renminbi. (At press time, it cost 7.05 RMB.)Why does this matter? For years, official…
Over the weekend, 22 people were killed and more than two dozen others were injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. A manifesto said to be from the shooting suspect appeared beforehand on an anonymous web forum named 8chan, which is owned and operated by Jim Watkins and his company,…
AMERICANS WENT to sleep on August 3rd reading about a mass shooting that had left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas, and woke up to news of another shooting overnight in which nine people, plus the shooter, had been killed in Dayton, Ohio. Both come just one week after a gunman killed three people…
ImageIndian soldiers standing guard in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Sunday. The Indian government said on Monday that it intended to remove the disputed region’s special status.CreditCreditDar Yasin/Associated PressSRINAGAR, Kashmir — The Indian government said on Monday that it was removing the special status that has existed for decades in Kashmir, a disputed mountainous region along the…
Philadelphia has experienced a culinary revival over the past two decades, making the transition from a place best known for its cheesesteaks and red-sauce Italian joints to a gastronomic destination boasting BYOBs with hyper-local menus, a thriving vegan scene, and the most outstanding restaurant in the country, according to the James Beard Foundation. Adding to…
Two mass shootings left at least 29 dead in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas on Sunday and Saturday. The shootings occurred less than 24 hours apart. In Ohio on Sunday, reports of the shooting began at around 1AM in the Oregon entertainment district of Dayton. Police say nine were killed, plus the shooter, and…
IT IS A well-established fact among religion-watchers that charismatic forms of Christianity, including the Pentecostal churches, are the fastest-growing variety of the world’s largest monotheism. Another widely agreed statement: these churches’ success reflects their appeal to people in transit. That includes migrants from rural areas to big cities like São Paolo or Lagos, and travellers…
VideoA gunman killed at least 20 people at a shopping complex on Saturday. The police said one suspect was in custody.CreditCreditMark Lambie/The El Paso Times, via Associated PressEL PASO — A 21-year-old gunman armed with a powerful rifle turned a crowded Walmart store in this majority-Hispanic border city into a scene of chaos and bloodshed…
As a few friends and I were settling a dinner bill last night, I noticed a Capital One credit card peeking out amid a table-full of taco scraps and emptied margarita glasses. "Uh, oh," I remarked. “Who’s got the Capital One card? Are you pissed?"The owner revealed himself, yet he was oblivious to the week’s…
