Section: Business Insider (USA)
Women in China have started wearing ‘Facekinis’ on the beach to keep their skin pale
Qingdao (China) (AFP) – Ever more Chinese women are embracing the “facekini” to protect them from the sun and the threat of a tan on a trip to the beach. Pale white skin is highly-valued in China, where a darker complexion is associated more with poor rural women, who often labour for long hours in the sun. The nylon accessory...
Almaty narrows gap on Beijing in 2022 Olympics race
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Beijing and Almaty on Monday embarked on a frantic final lobbying campaign for the 2022 Winter Olympics ahead of a decision this week on the winner.High level delegations from China and Kazakhstan are in Kuala Lumpur where the International Olympic Committee will hold a secret ballot on Friday to decide between the two...
Another suspected Russian soldier was caught with a truck full of ammunition in Ukraine
Ukrainian border guards detained a soldier suspected of being a Russian army officer who was picked up while riding in a military truck packed with ammunition at the Berezove checkpoint, about 28 miles southwest of the militant-held city of Donetsk. Guards found nearly 200 cases containing grenades and ammunition, including rocket-propelled...
New research shows that a common workplace mistake is actually contagious
We experience rudeness and incivility all the time. From simple insults and offhand remarks to purposely excluding others from groups, these behaviors are largely tolerated in our daily lives and in the workplace. The question is, what effect do these behaviors have on us? It’s pretty clear that high-intensity negative behaviors like abuse,...
Meet The ‘Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives’ in America
On July 26, one hundred and 7 years ago, the FBI was created — but its infamous 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list didn’t begin until 1950 after a news reporter asked the bureau for the names of the “toughest guys” it wanted to capture. The resulting story generated so much publicity, J. Edgar Hoover, then director, decided to launch...
13 completely unglamorous first jobs of tech world superstars
Sometimes it can feel like tech giants were always destined to be on top of the world. We have this vision that because many of them seem otherworldly in their IQ levels, they all must have had jobs fixing security systems for Fortune 500 companies when they were 12 years old — or perhaps spent their time hacking those companies. For some startup...
Russia created a credit rating agency, which is great for Russia because it’ll ignore one key type of risk
Sick of getting downgraded, Russia is launching its own new rating company that will be immune to geopolitical risks. “The Russian market needs a strong credit rating agency with a high level of corporate governance and professional competence, capable of satisfying the interests of the economy [that is] authoritative enough for Russian and...
A brazen bank robbery and Russian money laundering have plunged Moldova into one of the most bizarre financial crises on earth
The bank theft was so outsized and bold that citizens of the Republic of Moldova came out in the streets this past May by the thousands to protest: “We want our billion back!” They used the number — US$ 1 billion – that news accounts reported had gone missing from three Moldovan banks in November of 2014. Unsure who to blame, the protestors...
France, Germany, Ukraine, Russia urge respect for Ukraine truce
Paris (AFP) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held talks over the conflict in east Ukraine, with all sides calling for the full implementation of a ceasefire deal, the French presidency said.The phone conversation between Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko came a week after similar...
Crimeans are about to discover what being part of Putin’s Russia really means
More than a year after the anschluss, Crimea is about to experience what a real Russian invasion feels like. And this time it won’t be “polite people” arriving to lead a virtual liberation of the peninsula from the clutches of mythological Ukrainian fascists. According to a report in Kommersant, the Kremlin is preparing to...
