Beijing arrested a pro-democracy media tycoon in Hong Kong — then his stock quadrupled Hong Kong activists are buying stock to have their voices heard Next Digital, the Hong Kong activist’s penny stock Next Digital stock has fallen steadily over the past five years—save for a relatively short-lived resurgence as Hong Kong protests intensified in the first half of 2019. A penny stock, Next Digital’s market cap sat at around $30....

As if theGreat Firewallis not enough, the Chinese government is now looking into monitoring the movement of 17 million cellphone users in Beijing, China by tracking the signal of their mobile devices. Purportedly to improve Beijing’s public travel and reduce traffic congestion, the new initiative, literally translated as “Platform for Citizen Movement Information” proposes to track each individual citizen’s movement in real time via cell phone signals, as reported on theBeijing Municipal People’s Governmentwebsite....

It’s 1.30 am, and I’m about to watch a duel between magicians. One is a “demonolater”, a word I have never heard before, someone who claims they worship demons and can petition them in return for knowledge or power. The other describes themselves as a “Solomonic magician”, and claims to be able to command demons to do his bidding, as some Jewish and Islamic traditions have believed ofKing Solomon, who ruled Israel in the 10th century BC....

The funniest quote from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” as far as I’m concerned must be this one: Matthew: I have a question for you real quick. What did you think of my demo? Did you get it?Aldous Snow: I was gonna listen to that, but then, um, I just carried on living my life. Sometimes being an entrepreneur seems like trying to get down the obstacle course on your way to doing some actual work....

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