The director of a factory supplying drones to the Russian military was badly wounded and his driver was killed when the car they were in exploded, news reports said on Wednesday.
The state Tass and RIA Novosti agencies said that Vladimir Tkachuk was hospitalised in grave condition following the explosion late Tuesday in Bolshoy Istok just outside Yekaterinburg, 1,400km (about 870 miles) east of Moscow.
There was no immediate comment from the authorities.
Tkachuk headed the Uraldronzavod factory that manufactures Upyr (Russian for Ghoul)
Hong Kong’s securities regulator has put a spotlight on highly concentrated shareholding this year, a move interpreted by market analysts as a warning about sharp price swings on small-cap stocks.
For example, the controlling shareholder and 18 shareholders of Desun Real Estate Investment Services Group, a Sichuan-based property management firm, held a combined 99.53 per cent of total issued shares as of July 21, according to an SFC announcement on Monday.
The firms cited by the SFC are small- and
Desert regions are transforming into clean energy hubs that also halt desertification and create habitat for plants and wildlife
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Legendary Hong Kong lyricist Peter Lai Bei-dak, who wrote the lyrics to a string of hits for the city’s Cantopop stars in the 1980s, has died at the age of 76, triggering an outpouring of condolences from fans of “The Lyrical Maverick”.
Sports commentator Eric Chung Chi-kwong, a close friend of Lai, announced his death on Wednesday. He told the media that Lai had moved into a nursing home earlier this year after suffering a stroke and collapsing at home
The incident, which at one point saw only 20 metres separating the planes, offers lessons for Chinese regulators and operators, analysts say
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A near-miss on Tuesday involving an All Nippon Airways (ANA) plane coming dangerously close to another jet while approaching Tokyo’s Haneda Airport from Shanghai has thrown aviation safety back into focus
My 18-year-old summer intern is very scared of me.
She spent the entire week watching me sit in front of my computer, in complete silence, motionless except for the occasional click of the mouse to move to the next electronic document, and barely breathing. She told me this could not be further from what she imagined a barrister’s life to be. And there was one thing she was particularly puzzled by: why were there so many documents?
There were, indeed, many documents –
Francis Neoton Cheung is the chairman of Doctoral Exchange, a public policy research collective, and a former member of the Land and Building Advisory Committee.
A couple from central China saw their business empire, valued at 100 million yuan (US$15 million), collapse and were plunged into debt after being wrongly accused of fraud.
Wang Fei and his wife, Liu Sumin, from Zhumadian in Henan province, began their journey as small-scale farmers before gradually establishing two pig farms. They later expanded into a medicinal herb cooperative and an agricultural technology company.
According to Hongxing News, their businesses were valued at over 60 million yuan, while their
Experts call the concept ‘unrealistic’, citing technological impossibility and high costs, as misinformation swirls online
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Some analysts view the Australian currency as particularly sensitive to policy moves in Beijing. If China intervenes to boost domestic growth, that could also lift the Australian dollar, the theory goes.
But in reality, the currency’s exposure to the world’s second-largest economy is more selective than commonly assumed, as