SEOUL: A 36-year-old South Korean startup founder was elected leader of the conservative opposition party on Friday and pledged to win over voters increasingly disillusioned with traditional rough-and-tumble politics and retake the presidency next year.Lee Jun-seok became the youngest leader of any major political party in democratic South Korean history,.
Book review: The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
8 Apr, 2021 10:58 PM
3 minutes to read
The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
Hawkes Bay Today
Reviewed by Louise Ward, Wardini Books
In this grisly crime novel, writer Paul Cleave creates two fictional crime writers accused of a crime and asks the question, can crime writers get away with murder? That s a lot of crime. And writers.
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are commercially successful novelists. They live in a nice area of Christchurch, travel a lot and have a 7-year-old son, Zach, a generally good kid who occasionally flips out with a C.Z.M (crazy Zach moment).
Cannabis Sativa, Inc.: PrestoDoctor s Robert Tankson Featured in Forbes Next 1000 Upstart Entrepreneurs
redefining
the American Dream. PrestoDoctor was acquired by Cannabis Sativa, Inc. in August 2017 at a $9 million valuation. Mr. Tankson currently serves on the Board of Directors of Cannabis Sativa, Inc.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT TANKSON
Mr. Tankson and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni Kyle Powers co-founded PrestoDoctor in 2015 after finding there wasn t a trusted place to access cannabis for daily wellness. PrestoDoctor currently connects 185,000 patients seeking medical cannabis cards via their proprietary online telemedicine platform providing access to licensed physicians to obtain a medical marijuana recommendation. PrestoDoctor currently serves California, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Illinois, and is actively targeting expansion into multiple additional states.
As Fox News struggles at home, Murdoch brings its playbook to the UK
16 Feb, 2021 08:50 PM
8 minutes to read
The Fox News headquarters in New York. Photo / Celeste Sloman, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Mark Landler
His venture and another upstart by a rival group of investors will challenge the BBC and Britain s efforts to guard against political bias in television news. Beset by declining ratings, upheaval in its on-air ranks and a multibillion-dollar defamation suit related to its election coverage, Fox News is staggering out of the Trump era blamed by many for seeding the poisonous political culture that brought a violent mob into the halls of the US Capitol.
India News: Almost three decades ago, Sunil Vachani borrowed $35,000 so he could start making 14-inch television sets in a rented shed outside New Delhi. It was a