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The sudden resignation of Liu Yang and the subsequent controversy surrounding the exclusive agreement have raised important questions about transparency and accountability in the education sector. As students and industry professionals continue to process the news, it remains to be seen how this development will impact the reputation of Sier Education and the broader finance and accounting community.
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In response to the investigation, Nvidia has stated that it will fully cooperate with Chinese authorities and provide all necessary information to facilitate the inquiry. The company has also affirmed its commitment to complying with all relevant laws and regulations in China and other jurisdictions where it operates.
Gun found on suspect in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO matches shell casings at scene, police say ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — New York City’s police commissioner says the gun found on the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO matches shell casings found at the crime scene. Commissioner Jessica Tisch also said Wednesday that lab results matched suspect Luigi Mangione’s prints to a water bottle and a snack bar wrapper found near the scene of the killing. Police had said earlier that they believed the gunman bought the items at a nearby coffee shop while awaiting his target. Mangione is jailed in Pennsylvania on weapon and forgery charges, but he also has been charged in New York with murder in Brian Thompson's death. His lawyer has noted that Mangione is presumed innocent. Authorities are scrutinizing evidence and the suspect’s experiences with the health care industry. Arguments over whether Luigi Mangione is a 'hero' offer a glimpse into an unusual American moment Memes and online posts in support of 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who's charged with killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO, have mushroomed online. Some cast Mangione as a hero. That's too far, says Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a rising Democrat who was almost the Democratic vice presidential nominee this year. CEO Brian Thompson's death touched off off these ripples. They offer a glimpse into how so many different aspects of 21st-century life can be surreally connected, from public violence to politics, from health care to humor, or attempts at it. FBI Director Wray says he intends to resign before Trump takes office in January WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray says he plans to resign at the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January. The announcement Wednesday comes a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the position. His impending resignation will bring him three years short of the completion of a 10-year term during which he tried to keep the FBI out of politics even as the bureau found itself entangled in a string of explosive investigations. Trump applauded the news Wednesday, saying it will end the weaponization of what he called the “Department of Injustice.” Donald Trump will ring the New York Stock Exchange bell as he's named Time's Person of the Year NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time and be named Time magazine's Person of the Year. Thursday's events will be a notable moment of twin recognitions for Trump, a born-and-bred New Yorker who has long seen praise from the business world and media as a sign of success. Four people with knowledge of his plans told The Associated Press that Trump was expected to be on Wall Street on Thursday to mark the ceremonial start of the day's trading, while a person familiar with the selection confirmed that Trump had been selected as Time's Person of the Year. The Trump and Biden teams insist they're working hand in glove on foreign crises WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy record. He frequently casts the outgoing Democratic president as a feckless leader who shredded American credibility around the world during his four-year term. But the Trump and Biden national security teams have come to an understanding that they have no choice but to work together as conflicts in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine have left a significant swath of the world on a knife’s edge. It’s fuzzy how much common ground Biden and Trump’s teams have found as they navigate crises that threaten to cause more global upheaval as Trump prepares to settle back into the White House. Syrians flock to morgues looking for loved ones who perished in Assad's prisons DAMASCUS (AP) — Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell. Now Syrians around the world are circulating images of the corpses in hopes that they will see slain loved ones whose fate had been a mystery. At the morgue visited by The Associated Press on Wednesday in Damascus, families flocked to a wall where some of the pictures were pinned in a haunting gallery of the dead. Relatives desperately scanned the images for a recognizable face. Some of the prisoners died just weeks ago. Others perished months earlier. US warns Russia may be ready to use new lethal missile against Ukraine again in 'coming days' WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Russia could launch its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again soon. Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh cited a U.S. intelligence assessment in telling reporters on Wednesday that an attack could come “in the coming days.” She says the U.S. does not consider the Oreshnik missile a game changer on the battlefield. But that Russia is using the weapon to intimidate Ukraine as both sides wrestle for an advantage that will give them leverage in any negotiations to end the war. The Russian Defense Ministry also is warning it may retaliate against Kyiv for an attack on a military base in the Rostov region in southern Russia on Wednesday. Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 33 including children, Palestinian medics say DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian medical officials say Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 33 people. One of the strikes hit a home where displaced people were sheltering in the isolated north, killing 19. A separate strike outside nearby Kamal Adwan Hospital killed a woman and her two children, and another strike in central Gaza killed at least seven people. Israel's military says it tries to avoid harming civilians and accuses militants of hiding among them, putting their lives in danger. Local health officials say Israel’s retaliatory offensive after the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 has killed over 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Hannah Kobayashi, missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search, is found safe LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hannah Kobayashi has been found safe. That’s according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Kobayashi vanished last month in Los Angeles. The missing Hawaii woman's disappearance prompted a massive search and a missing persons investigation. It was not immediately clear where she was found, but police previously said she had voluntarily crossed the border into Mexico. The LAPD said Wednesday the department will wrap up its investigation. Kobayashi's family reported her missing to law enforcement on Nov. 11 after relatives received “strange and cryptic, just alarming” text messages. Kobayashi’s mother and sister said they are “grateful” she has been found safe. Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup. But when exactly? ZURICH (AP) — Saudi Arabia scored a major win in its campaign to attract major sports events to the kingdom when it was formally appointed as the 2034 World Cup host on Wednesday. Still, many questions remain about the tournament. Key issues include during which part of the year to stage the tournament, where to play the games, whether alcohol will be allowed at all and how to protect workers rights in the massive construction projects required to host the World Cup.Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) Raised to Equal Weight at Barclays
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Oscar, who currently plies his trade for Shanghai Port in the Chinese Super League, has expressed a strong desire to represent China at the international level. The 30-year-old playmaker has been in China since 2017, becoming a key player for both his club and the league as a whole.
LOADING ERROR LOADING A hallmark of Donald Trump’s first presidency was the way major policy developments would sometimes get almost no attention, because they were competing with the flurry of higher-profile, mind-blowing controversies swirling around him and his team. Evidently Trump’s second presidency is going to unfold in the same way. For the past week, the political world has focused mostly on the controversies over Trump’s planned appointments for top positions in his administration. And that’s understandable, given his plan to put the nation’s health in the hands of a noted vaccine skeptic and to hand the national intelligence apparatus over to someone who likes to repeat talking points from Russian propaganda . Advertisement But that conversation has left virtually no space for discussion about policy changes — including one that should raise a lot of questions about exactly whose interests Trump will represent in government and exactly who has influence over him. The policy in question is a federal tax credit for buyers of new electric vehicles. It exists thanks to the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature legislative accomplishment, and is part of that law’s effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels by promoting EV use. Last week Reuters reported that Trump’s transition team was recommending he ask Congress to kill the tax credit. And while Trump has not said anything publicly, auto industry leaders and investors saw the report as a trial balloon and indicator of what the president-elect is likely to do. It was not exactly a shocking development. Trump has been speaking out against Democratic support of EVs ― or what he has called, deceptively, an “ electric vehicle mandate ” ― for years. Especially when speaking in states like Michigan, cradle of America’s auto industry, he has portrayed the EV effort as elite Democrats imposing a tree-hugging agenda that will ruin the U.S. auto industry and, in the process, wipe out jobs for U.S. workers. Advertisement Still, Trump never said explicitly whether he’d actually seek to eliminate the tax credit. And there were reasons to think he might not pursue the idea after the election. One is that a number of House Republicans support the EV incentives. Many come from places like Georgia, Ohio, Indiana and Nevada ― states that Trump won and where the EV effort has led to a boom in factory construction. The recent EV push has “created good jobs in many parts of the country — including many districts represented by members of our conference,” the House members wrote in a summer letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Then there are the feelings of the auto industry itself. Both Ford and General Motors, the two legacy car companies still based in Detroit, have supported the tax credit because they think a global shift towards EVs is inevitable. The real question now, they argue, is not whether there will be many more EVs in the future, but who will produce and sell them. The U.S. carmakers are particularly worried about losing ground to Chinese companies. Thanks to two decades of financial support from their own government, Chinese carmakers can now produce EVs more cheaply and, as a result, are poised to dominate the worldwide market. The new federal tax credit, worth up to $7,500 per vehicle but only valid for EVs produced here in the U.S., is giving Ford and GM a chance to compete on a more even playing field among U.S. consumers. Good jobs in the districts of House Republicans, a chance to help American industry compete with China ― those sure sound like ideas that might resonate with Trump. Advertisement But those aren’t the only appeals Trump is hearing. He’s also hearing from some of his biggest, and richest, allies. And they have a very different view. Hamm, Musk And EVs One of the co-leaders of the transition team on EV policy, according to Reuters, is Harold Hamm , a billionaire oil tycoon who was a prodigious Trump fundraiser during the campaign (and donated plenty of his own money, too). Hamm opposes support for EVs, whose growth over the long term would reduce demand for gasoline ― i.e., the financial lifeblood of his enterprises. Elon Musk, another Trump megadonor, also has the president-elect’s ear. And although Musk is the CEO of Tesla, the nation’s top electric carmaker, Musk has said his company doesn’t need the subsidies because it’s not trying to retool from making gas-powered cars and isn’t at the same disadvantage internationally as the legacy Detroit automakers. “I think it would be devastating for our competitors and for Tesla slightly,” Musk told investors over the summer. But he said that in the “long term, it probably helps” Tesla if Trump does away with the tax credit, since that could allow Tesla to more thoroughly dominate the U.S. market. Corey Cantor , a senior auto industry analyst at BloombergNEF, told HuffPost he thinks Tesla sales benefit from the tax credits more than Musk lets on. But he agrees Tesla has “far more flexibility” and would suffer less. Advertisement One reason for that is that Musk has fought unionisation at his auto plants and, according to outside analysts, pays his workers less than competitors . A major goal of the Biden EV push was to support unionised companies in the U.S. and, in the process, guarantee better pay for manufacturing workers. It’s impossible to know just how much Trump’s opposition to the EV tax credit reflects the influence of Hamm and Musk, given his own longstanding skepticism of measures to prevent climate change. But Trump has a lengthy , well-chronicled history of heeding or helping donors who want policy favors, or offering them positions in his administration. And that’s to say of nothing of how Trump and his family profited personally when, for example, lobbyists and foreign dignitaries would stay at Trump’s Washington hotel. One w atchdog group determined through public disclosures that his daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, made as much as $640 million in outside income during Trump’s first term. Now Trump is on his way back to the White House, with a transition team led by and stocked with billionaires . Musk, along with fellow billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, are leading a so-called Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) task force that, though not an official government entity, will identify targets for big cuts in government spending. The Political Game Lobbyists and analysts familiar with the transition told The New York Times they thought Ford and GM (and Stellantis, the other Detroit company, which is now part of a foreign conglomerate) still had a chance to save the tax credit, if they’re strategic enough. Advertisement As these sources explained it to the Times, part of Trump’s motivation for killing the tax credit was his grudge against the Detroit companies because of their past support for auto emissions policies he opposed. To get on Trump’s good side, the companies needed to make amends ― or, as the Times put it, “bow to Mr. Trump.” Trump has always been unabashedly transactional . The variable is which kind of currency will get him to respond. Campaign contributions? 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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — DeMarr Langford Jr. put in the winning points off his offensive rebound at the buzzer and Amar'e Marshall scored 18 points as Albany defeated Kansas City 67-65 on Saturday. Marshall added five steals for the Great Danes (5-1). Langford added 16 points while going 7 of 8 and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line while he also had six rebounds. Justin Neely shot 2 of 4 from the field and 6 for 7 from the line to finish with 10 points. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.ANTHONY KLAN EXCLUSIVE Guide Dogs Victoria was devastated by the Josh Frydenberg political advertisements scandal, with donors leaving for good, and no part of the organisation left unharmed, says its chief executive. More than two-and-a-half years after the charity was thrust into the biggest scandal of its 65-year history, Guide Dogs Victoria has finally lifted its silence over the affair. The impact of the Frydenberg affair was “huge” and far-reaching, Guide Dogs Victoria chief executive Nicky Long has told The Klaxon, in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview. “The impact on the organisation has been huge,” Long said. “I don’t think there’s anyone internally or even at a volunteer level that didn’t feel the ripple effects of what occurred”. “I don’t think there’s anyone internally or even at a volunteer level that didn’t feel the ripple effects of what occurred” — Nicky Long Weeks before the 2022 federal election, it emerged Guide Dogs Victoria’s then chief executive Karen Hayes had appeared in political advertisements spruiking Frydenberg, then the Federal Treasurer. It is illegal for charities to endorse politicians or political parties. Hayes was “stood down” within days of the scandal breaking and Iain Edwards was replaced as Guide Dogs Victoria chair. Yet despite the seriousness of the affair — and widespread public concerns — aside from a handful of carefully-worded written statements, Guide Dogs Victoria has refused to comment on the scandal or its aftermath. Now, Long — who took the reins in April last year — is breaking that silence, shedding light on the impact of the scandal that engulfed one of Australia’s most trusted charities. “We had donors who said ‘we’re out of here and we’re never coming back’,” Long told The Klaxon. “That was pretty harmful. “Our fundraising was absolutely impacted,” she said. “We had donors who said ‘we’re out of here and we’re never coming back’” — Nicky Long As to whether the damage from the affair remained ongoing, Long was unsure. “How long is that tail? I hope it isn’t (long),” she said. “We also have a lot of really loyal people who recognise it was a critical bump in the road, and on the other side of it they’re sticking around”. The full financial impact of the scandal — much of Guide Dogs Victoria’s revenue comes from donations — was also hard to determine. Long said donations had not seen a “dip” but had “stabilised”, or stopped growing. “When you’re investing in fundraising you want growth — I’d say we’ve held,” she said. Long is now hopeful that the dust has settled. “When I started I put a line in the sand, with staff, with everyone, and said we are entering a new era,” she said. “Not to say the bruises of the recent past aren’t there, but we can’t keep looking back, we have to look forward. “And so it’s been quite a task to get everyone back up feeling positive about the future of Guide Dogs and I think...we are there,” Long said. “It’s been quite a task to get everyone back up feeling positive about the future of Guide Dogs” — Nicky Long Guide Dogs Victoria is located in the inner-Melbourne federal seat of Kooyong, which had been held by the Liberal Party since the party was founded. At the May 2022 election Frydenberg lost the seat to independent Monique Ryan. Weeks out from the election, in flyers distributed in Kooyong, and in advertisements posted online and to social media, Hayes was featured, holding a puppy, as “Chief Executive Officer, Guide Dogs Victoria”. “I’ve known Josh for over a decade and I could not have asked for a better local Federal Member for Kooyong than Josh Frydenberg,” Hayes is quoted. “He (Frydenberg) has always maintained his strong and unwavering commitment to his local Kooyong community for whom he has delivered in so many ways. “In our darkest moments Josh was there providing support.” The scandal drew the spotlight on the charity, and revealed it had been heavily utlilised by the Liberal Party for campaigning for at least a decade. It also put the focus on the charity’s operations more broadly. Weeks after the election, in June 2022 The Klaxon revealed taxpayers Guide Dogs Victoria revealed Guide Dogs Victoria was charging taxpayers four times more than a decade earlier but delivering fewer services — and that it spent more money on fundraising than delivering guide dogs . Later that month we revealed Guide Dogs Victoria’s then “capital fundraising” boss made over $87,000 in donations to the Federal Liberal Party, before the Federal Coalition gave millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to Guide Dogs Victoria. In November 2022, with Guide Dogs Victoria apparently in damage control, we revealed at least one of its executives had been lying to donors about its performance , including making false claims about The Klaxon’s reporting. (The following month we revealed a string of executives had departed , including the charity’s general manager responsible for marketing and communications and its chief financial officer). The Klaxon also revealed the charity had missed every guide dogs target since 2016 ; that in the 2021 financial year it had delivered just 35 dogs ; and that in 2021-22 it delivered the lowest number of dogs on record . In January last year we revealed the Guide Dogs Victoria’s senior management and board had been warned of “politicisation” involving the Liberal Party back in 2013 . The following day it was announced Edwards was leaving the organisation and that Long had been appointed — but would start in around three months’ time, in “mid-April”. The board was “pleased to confirm” it had appointed Long, then CEO of not-for-profit Expression Australia, “following the announcement of her resignation this afternoon”, it said in its January 13 statement . “Nicky will join GDV in mid-April once she has served her notice period [at Expression Australia],” it said. Long started at Guide Dogs Victoria on April 17. After the scandal broke, it was announced Edwards would stand down as chair and fill the position of “interim CEO” until a new CEO was found. On January 13 it was announced Edwards would depart Guide Dogs Victoria altoghter. More reports from The Klaxon: 2022: May 31 — Guide Dogs CEO “resigns”: major questions remain June 23 — Spends more on fundraising than dogs June 27 — Fundraising boss gave $87,000 to Liberal Party Nov 20 — Guide Dogs Victoria caught lying to donors Dec 5 — Guide Dogs executives exit Dec 16 — Supplies lowest value of dogs on record 2023: Jan 12 — Guide Dogs Victoria board warned of “politicisation” a decade ago Apr 7 – Top dog departs after Klaxon expose That month, and again in May, The Klaxon requested an interview with Long. We received no response. A week ago, The Klaxon approached Guide Dogs Victoria with concerns regarding its performance, from its last two annual reports, and again requested an interview with Long. This time the request was successful. “I don’t know that we handled dealing with you in the past very well,” Long said this week. “My approach is always to meet with people and talk with them”. When asked whether Guide Dogs Victoria had changed its stance regarding political endorsements or affiliations, Long was unequivocal: “Absolutely — you can’t do it”. Long said she was confident improvements had been made, including “board changes”. “I wouldn’t be the CEO here if I thought there was an ongoing issue, if things were in place that could see that ever happen again,” she said. More to come...
