A creeping trend thailand is cashing in on demand for snail slime skin care fanatics are crazy for the stuff thats now more precious than gold. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start in china and a look at a man who once upon a time was in the good graces of the communist party but not anymore activist she has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for quote deliberately disclosing state secrets thats the crime the party usually uses to go after people like him for almost 2 decades wangs run a website documented human rights abuses including the legal confiscation of land from powerless farmers to the prosecution or rather persecution of religious groups early on his coverage of social problems was actually praised by the government but space for criticism has narrowed over the years and hes found himself in and out of jail we have so few richardson human china director and Human Rights Watch to talk more about this so if he so one shes been convicted of d
Everybody is full of promise and passion. All this knowhow from abroad. Haslinda they are asean, the next generation. Haslinda welcome to bangkok, capital of thailand. Aseans secondlargest economy, a country like the rest of Southeast Asia that is navigating an incredible rise in the internet economy. A region pinning its hopes on a new, younger consumer class. With an average age of just 29, the youth are behind a booming middle class set to top 400 Million People by 2020. That is twice what it was just eight years ago. The past 30 years have changed so much. When i came here, me being a thai person that looks thai and doesnt speak hardly any thai. People looked at me so weirdly. I was like the ugly duckling. Fast forward, everybody is full of promise and passion. All this knowhow from abroad. We are seeing a lot of sea turtles come back. Meaning they are from thailand, asia, all over. They go abroad, and bring back all their knowledge and knowhow. So much passion to it. I think techn
Looking at the video definitely that is what it is. So hopefully we wont lose anything. Lets hope that is the case. You are great to come on with us. Thank you. Good luck out there to all the crews working this fire. If you have taken photos or video of this fire please share it by posting on social media with the hashtag abc 7 now. We will stay on top of that during this half hour. We will continue to stream this live. Thanks for joining us. Im cheryl jennings. And im dan ashley. Lets check in with sandhya patel for weather conditions around the fire. Always critical. Absolutely. Wind is a big factor as you take a look at the Current Conditions near the fire it is breezy. Gusts nonexistent but steady wind out of the west northwest to 16 miles per hour. Its hot. 82 degrees and relative humidity coming up. It is 41 . With the west wind this is moving some of the smoke towards the tracy area but also out towards some areas where there arent many People Living which is a good factor there
Brexit round one. As eu leaders gather in malta its Prime Minister calls for a fair deal for britain but warns it will pay a price for leaving. And following the announcement that snapchat will be listing on the us stock market, today we want to know would you buy shares in a company with a limited track record of turning a profit . In fact, it has not made a profit. The value of facebook has tripled since it went public in 2012, but will snapchat be a similar success . Do you snapchat . In the last few hours the social Networking Company has filed documents to float its shares on the new york stock exchange. Its likely to be the biggest ipo in the Technology World since facebook floated in 2012. For those of you who dont use it its kind of the opposite of facebook instead of making a permanent record of your life it lets you send Picture Messages that then disappear. Here are some figures. According to the company 158 Million People use snapchat every day to send Picture Messages oi s
Points. S p up by 11 1. 5 points and the nasdaq up 20 points. You add those two sessions together and you get more than 600 points. Consecutive the 00point gains for the dow, this only happened nine times in its entire history. Granted, were talking about points, not about percentages. Look at that chart. This is something that is 17. 778. Weve got another 150 points. I dont know the i dont know the exact high. The trading sessions left before the end of the year. Or no, thats just before christmas. 0. 4 is what it was yesterday. You could say we were getting excited about 80 or 90point gains. If theyre two and three percentage point swings, then 400point swings. Like we said, to get two back to back days over 600 points or 700 points, you could probably find more. But on point, weve just gotten into this territory. Major indexes have slashed losses by nearly two quarters. Procter gamble, oracle, target. The Global Markets taking a cue from wall street. They were catching up yesterday,