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Bo Bo Nge with his wife, Me Kyi, and son. Nge, the deputy governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, has strong ties in Great Barrington. A photo has confirmed that he still is alive, after a Facebook post this month said he had died while jailed by the military regime. PHOTO PROVIDED BY ABBY PRATT
GREAT BARRINGTON â Bo Bo Nge, a Myanmar official with strong ties to the Berkshires, appears to be alive in an army interrogation center in that country, a close friend said Tuesday.
Nge, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar, was jailed in February, amid a military coup in that Southeast Asia country, and had been feared dead in recent days. But, a photo of Nge that surfaced has confirmed that he remains alive.
More than 1,400 Clarke County teachers, staff receive the COVID-19 shot
Marsha Thomas was definitely ready for her COVID-19 vaccine.
Her 81-year-old parents were both previously diagnosed with the coronavirus and have experienced some long-term side effects of the disease. So, she jumped at the opportunity to get vaccinated during the Clarke County School District’s mass vaccination event on Wednesday.
“What is the saying? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” said Thomas, a veteran educator of over 20 years and the interim chief executive officer of district services. “What you don’t want is to be one of those people that’s been directly impacted by the virus or had family members who’ve been impacted.”
Daioni founder Laurence Harris WELL-known Pembrokeshire dairy farmer and founder of the Daioni Organic milk business, Laurence Harris has been announced as the winner of the Idris Davies Memorial Trust Award for 2020 at the recent Pembrokeshire NFU Cymru county conference. Laurence, of Ffosyficer Farm, Abercych, began his farming career in 1970 when he took over the running of the family farm after graduating from the Royal Agricultural College and has grown the farming business from 150 acres to more than 3,500 acres today. The business operates three dairy herds totalling over 1,000 milking cows as well as a sheep flock of 1,200 breeding ewes, a small pedigree Hereford suckler herd and a large arable farming enterprise.
Usually relegated to the corners of the Marshall School of Business and campus investing clubs, the stock market was on the front of students’ minds this week after GameStop’s stock surged 1000% since last year, capturing the imagination of students hoping to strike it rich overnight.
“Everything about [the stock surge] is really crazy, especially how it happened so suddenly,” said Steve Nguyen, a sophomore majoring in business administration and a founder of quantitative finance club Quant SC.
GameStop surged after an army of non-professional investors on the Reddit forum WallStreetBets decided to target the stock and push its price up, in part motivated by the fact that major hedge funds had decided to short sell the stock. Short selling occurs when investors bet that the price of a stock will decrease, causing them to borrow shares of the stock and sell it, hoping to buy them back at a lower price.