Chinese chipmaker says top executive, board members, quit

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, said its vice-chairman has resigned in a leadership reshuffle less than a year after he took the role.

Chiang, a former research director at Taiwan's TSMC, joined SMIC in late December. The company said he had resigned from his vice-chairman position as well as from the board with effect from Thursday in order to spend more time with his family.

His departure comes just two months after SMIC's chairman, Zhou Zixue, also resigned citing health reasons.

Besides Chiang, three other members also resigned from the board, including co-chief executive officer Liang Mong Song who had threatened to quit in December last year. He would remain in his executive role, SMIC said.

The company is on a U.S. blacklist that denies it advanced manufacturing equipment from U.S. suppliers due to its alleged ties to China's military, claims SMIC rejects.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-11-11/chinese-chipmaker-says-top-executive-board-members-quit

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NYU evacuates three locations after bomb threat; NYPD responding

MANHATTAN — New York University students were evacuated from three locations after a Thursday night bomb threat.

The school received bomb threats the Stern School of Business, Center for Neural Science, and Hebrew Union College, which is an independent institution. The NYPD first received a call about the bomb threat just before 6:30 p.m.

Those evacuated were directed to proceed to the Bobst Library or the Kimmel Center. As of 8:20 p.m., the locations were successfully evacuated, NYU tweeted.

The University of Southern California also received bomb threats on Thursday, KTLA reported. Additional threats were made at MIT, police said.

Bomb threats were made at several colleges over the weekend.

Bomb threats later deemed not credible were made against Columbia University on Sunday afternoon, according to the school.

There was also a bomb threat on Sunday at Cornell University.

Brown University officials in Providence, Rhode Island, sent a text alert to students that said police were investigating “multiple buildings on campus involving a bomb threat.”

Yale reported a bomb threat two days earlier that forced the evacuation of several buildings as well as nearby businesses in New Haven, Connecticut. The university resumed normal campus activity Friday evening.

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/nyu-evacuates-three-locations-after-bomb-threat-nypd-responding/

Bomb threat: MIT, NYU, Yale, Brown University, and USC

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Looks like many were found not credible, but something to keep an eye on.

Interesting that the threats were against a number of "elite" institutions…

If you thought the medical institutions, physicians, etc. couldn't lose anymore credibility, I present to you the following:

Canadian doctor diagnoses woman in British Columbia with 'climate change' after breathing problems during summer of heatwaves and wildfires

Dr Kyle Merritt came to the unprecedented conclusion after finding that a recent heatwave and poor air quality in Nelson, British Columbia, contributed to the 70-year-old's deteriorating health.

https://news.sky.com/story/canadian-doctor-diagnoses-woman-in-british-columbia-with-climate-change-after-breathing-problems-during-summer-of-heatwaves-and-wildfires-12465131

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>Others in the hospital shared Dr Merritt's opinion and he was able to form an internal group of about 40 medical professionals called Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health.

>In a statement on its website, the group said: "As physicians and nurses, we saw first-hand the physical and mental effects of climate change on our patients and communities."

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notable