New Yorkers build walls of sticky notes in defiance of Trump (VIDEO) |
- New Yorkers build walls of sticky notes in defiance of Trump (VIDEO)
- Reuters Video: Trudeau arrives in Cuba for state visit
- Here’s your first look at new ‘The Bachelor’
- Ananda mulls taking Astro private, report claims
- Canada’s Trudeau visits Cuba to reboot ties (VIDEO)
- Release all ECRL studies to end our questions, DAP MP tells transport minister
| New Yorkers build walls of sticky notes in defiance of Trump (VIDEO) Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:42 PM PST
In the liberal stronghold of New York City, residents distraught over the incoming Republican administration were finding solace a week after the US presidential election by placing handwritten, anonymous notes on the walls of a busy subway station. Yesterday, many notes offered support to immigrants or mocked Trump's promise to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border and have Mexico pay for it. "A better wall," read one sticky note. "This is the wall that love can build," read another. Titled "Subway Therapy," the installation lining the underground walls beneath Manhattan's Union Square was the idea of artist Matthew "Levee" Chavez. "The last couple days have been stressful and I wanted to provide people with an opportunity to engage in a small and easy way," he wrote in the magazine Quartz. Anyone can post a note, and more than 10,000 people have, Chavez wrote on Instagram. Democrat Hillary Clinton bested Trump 79 per cent to 18 per cent in New York City. Writers of the sticky notes took varied approaches. Some pledged political action, saying "Vote in 2018" and "I will do my part to change this!" A blue sticky note quotes novelist Zadie Smith on the subject of despair, and a pink one quotes Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." New York's Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, struck a pro-immigrant message, posting a note with lines from the Emma Lazarus poem that appear on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free... I lift my lamp beside the golden door." The defiant stance expressed in the notes is the right message for New Yorkers to send, said waitress Caitlin Cherry, 28, as she paused to look at them. "I'm happy that people who are visiting can see that not all Americans want this," she said. In a separate sign of protest, three apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side are dropping the name Trump Place and will be known by their addresses, the trade publication Real Deal reported, citing an email to tenants from landlord Equity Residential. Some tenants had circulated a petition requesting the change. ― Reuters  |
| Reuters Video: Trudeau arrives in Cuba for state visit Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:39 PM PST Duration: 00:40, Published 16 Nov 2016 Forty years after a historic trip by his father, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Cuba to strengthen trade and cultural ties between the two countries. ― Reuters |
| Here’s your first look at new ‘The Bachelor’ Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:37 PM PST
Will the fourth time prove the charm for The Bachelor candidate Nick Viall? The two-time Bachelorette finalist and Bachelor in Paradise candidate will once again be looking for love in ABC's The Bachelor, which is set to air on Monday, January 2, 2017, 8pm ET/PT. The first footage, a 30-second clip released on YouTube, shows the arrival of 30 hopeful women who don't seem to be put off by the bachelor's history of bad luck on the show. The first promo poster was released on November 1 via People online. Watch the video here. — AFP-Relaxnews |
| Ananda mulls taking Astro private, report claims Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:35 PM PST
Ananda, who currently owns 40 per cent of the company, is considering the exercise that will also include buying out Pantai Cahaya Bulan Ventures Sdn Bhd, the investment vehicle of state-owned Khazanah Nasional Bhd. "The exercise is still in preliminary stages and details have yet to be finalised. Usaha Tegas feels that the market is not valuing the company fairly," said a source quoted by English daily The Star. AMH was listed in 2012 with the initial public offer (IPO) price of RM3 per share to raise RM4.55 billion, the country's third-largest IPO that year after IHH Healthcare Bhd and Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd. The share traded at RM2.70 this morning, below its peak of RM3.32 on June 13, 2014. Previously owned indirectly by Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd, AMH now has direct shareholders after an exercise in January 2015. Besides Usaha Tegas and Pantai Cahaya Bulan, other shareholders include Pacific States Investment Ltd, Excorp Holdings NV, PanOcean Management Ltd, Tucson NV, and Harapan Terus Sdn Bhd — the last reportedly controlled by Datuk Badri Masri, Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar and Mohamad Shahrin Merican. The Star reported that Ananda is likely to offer a fair price to shareholders for the takeover exercise. "However, it would be interesting to see how much Usaha Tegas would want to offer for Astro, if it decides to go ahead with the exercise, considering the challenging landscape," the source added. AMH's pay-TV service Astro is currently facing competition from streaming services such as Netflix and local player iFlix that offer international content, with The Star Media Group also launching its service called Dimsum last week. The company was first listed in 2003 as Astro All Asia Networks Plc before taken private on June 2012. It was re-listed on October 2012 as Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd without its overseas assets. |
| Canada’s Trudeau visits Cuba to reboot ties (VIDEO) Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:35 PM PST
After arriving at Havana airport, Trudeau headed straight to the city's iconic Revolution Square and laid a wreath, an AFP photographer saw. He was scheduled later to meet with Cuba's President Raul Castro, officials said. The two-day visit is the first stop on a tour that will also take Trudeau to Argentina and to Peru for the APEC Asia-Pacific trade summit. It comes 40 years after Trudeau's father Pierre Elliott Trudeau committed to a lifelong friendship with Cuba's former revolutionary president Fidel Castro during a similar visit. According to Trudeau's office, the goal is to "renew and strengthen" the bilateral relationship. The visit will also provide an opportunity to "collaborate more closely on sustainable economic growth, inclusive governance, security, climate change, and gender equality," a statement said. Trump factor Trump, who won the US presidential election a week ago, has sent mixed messages about the thaw in US-Cuba relations which was started two years ago by current US President Barack Obama. Trump gave it a lukewarm welcome at first, before vowing to reverse the new policies unless Raul Castro agrees to democratic reforms and other demands. Because Obama used executive authority to enact the rapprochement, Trump could change course just as easily to reinstate financial, trade and travel restrictions. While observers note that Cuba will probably not be a priority for Trump, it remains unclear how he would view a Trudeau-Castro photo opportunity. The visit is primarily "symbolic," John Kirk, a politics professor and Cuba expert at Dalhousie University in Halifax, told AFP. Canada maintained diplomatic ties with Havana after the revolution "despite significant pressure from Washington" over the years, Kirk said. Ottawa also remained steadfastly opposed to the American trade embargo on Cuba, which has not been revoked by Congress. Meeting with Fidel? Officially, no meeting is planned with Fidel Castro, but "there's a chance" they will see each other, Cuba's ambassador to Canada, Julio Garmendia Pena, told Canadian media. The visit is the first by a Canadian leader to Cuba since Jean Chretien in 1998. Over the past decade, bilateral ties reached a historic low with former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper often siding with Washington in seeking to isolate Cuba on the international scene. Yet it was also Harper who hosted secret talks between US and Cuban officials in 2014 leading to the rapprochement. Today, Cuba continues to welcome a huge influx of Canadian tourists each year ― 1.3 million or nearly 40 per cent of all tourist visitors. Bilateral trade remains modest at less than US$1.0 billion (RM4.3 billion) annually. Despite their warm diplomatic ties, many Canadian companies do not invest in Cuba over fear they will be blocked from the US market. ― AFP |
| Release all ECRL studies to end our questions, DAP MP tells transport minister Posted: 15 Nov 2016 05:33 PM PST
The DAP MP said Liow's explanation yesterday only raised more doubts, as he questioned an initial study in 2009 by HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd that priced the project at RM29 billion, which also accounted for the extended rail line from 545km to 620km. "Is the Transport Minister telling us HSS consultants used the 2009-2010 exchange rates to calculate the cost of the project, even though they finalised the report only in December 2015 when the exchange rate was already RM4 to the [US] dollar by then? "Since the comprehensive HSS report had to take six years to complete and was finalised only in December 2015, how did the government decide to suddenly alter the alignment within six months or so? "Was a new engineering consultant actually appointed to carry out a new study which could be completed in such a time-frame?" the Petaling Jaya Utara MP asked in a statement. If Liow could order the feasibility reports and other studies on the project to be released soon, Pua said Pakatan Harapan critics would definitely cease comments on the matter. Otherwise, he said, Liow must not blame his camp for trying to gain political mileage. "If he really has nothing to hide, Datuk Seri Liow should immediately order that both the HSS feasibility study and the subsequent study which changed the scope of the HSS study be released to the public," he said. Without giving a date, Liow yesterday said the feasibility study on the ECRL will be released once it is finalised. Liow was reported as saying that the alignment of the rail link was increased from 545km in the original study to 620km, to link Kuantan Port and Port Klang, which would require 50km of tunnelling work through the Titiwangsa mountain range which divides the west coast of the peninsula from the east. The transport minister also said the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), which is headed by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan, would provide all the details on the ECRL and gave an assurance that the government is transparent in all public projects. The federal Opposition pact has repeatedly questioned the government over the pricey cost of the ECRL, noting that the local HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd's report estimated the project to cost RM53.2 million per km compared to China-owned China Communications Construction Company which was awarded the contract at a cost of RM91.7 million per km. HSS Integrated is a subsidiary of HSS Engineers Bhd, a Bursa Malaysia-listed company that has been involved in several major engineering projects locally such as the electrified double-tracking from Ipoh to Padang Besar, the Sungai-Buloh to Kajang MRT I Line, the Ampang Line LRT extension project and the KLIA Express Rail Link. The study by HSS was commissioned by the East Coast Economic Region Development Council in December 2009, for a proposed 545km route from Kuala Lumpur to Tumpat, passing through Mentakab, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu and Kota Baru. |
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