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China replaces head of Hong Kong liaison office amid ongoing protests
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China has replaced the head of its Hong Kong liaison office, the most senior mainland political official based in the Chinese-controlled territory, following more than six months of often-violent anti-government protests in the city. China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on its website late on Saturday that Wang Zhimin, who had held the post since 2017, had been replaced by 65-year-old Luo Huining, who until November was the top official of China's ruling Communist Party in the northern province of Shanxi.
Reuters reported exclusively in November that Beijing was considering potential replacements for Wang, in a sign of dissatisfaction with the Liaison Office's handling of the crisis, the worst since the city reverted from British to Chinese rule in 1997. Saturday's statement gave no other details on the change.
The Liaison Office, which reports to China's State Council, serves as the platform for Beijing to project its influence in the city, and has come in for criticism in Hong Kong and mainland China for misjudging the situation in the city. Wang is the shortest serving Liaison office director since 1997. Mass protests erupted in June in Hong Kong over an extradition bill that would have allowed individuals to be sent for trial to the mainland, where justice is controlled by the Communist Party. Though the bill was withdrawn, protests have continued over a broad perception that Beijing is meddling improperly in city affairs and complaints of police brutality.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Hong-Kong-protests/China-replaces-head-of-Hong-Kong-liaison-office-amid-ongoing-protests
from Jan 2013
Eric Schmidt in North Korea: Google chairman's step into the unknown
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Schmidt's co-author of that volume, Jared Cohen, is a former state department official who now runs Google Ideas, a global think tank based in New York. A close observer of the Arab spring who was in both Iran and Egypt during key moments in their protest movement, Cohen is accompanying the Google chairman on his trip to Pyongyang.
Schmidt is being accompanied on the trip by Bill Richardson, the former Democratic governor of New Mexico who has visited North Korea several times before.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/07/google-eric-schmidt-trip-pyongyang
Top Insider sale/buy week ending Jan3- Pivotal Software Inc sold by Ford Motor Co.: $262.75m-Jan 2 and International Flavors and Fragrances bought by Winder Inv Pte, ltd: $41.34m-Dec 26-27/30-31
Pivotal Software, Inc. provides cloud-native platform that makes software development and information technology (IT) operations a strategic advantage for customers. The Company's cloud-native platforms include pivotal cloud foundry (PCF) and pivotal labs (Labs). The Company's common platform services include shared monitoring and logging, shared security, shared networking. The Company's BOSH is open-source orchestration software that provides an integrated set of foundational services and core technologies for deploying and operating PCF. BOSH enables operators to build and manage environments for large and complex IT systems. The PCF upports all of the major private and public cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, OpenStack and VMware vSphere. The Company also offers other data products, such as Pivotal Gemfire and Pivotal Greenplum.
https://www.marketscreener.com/PIVOTAL-SOFTWARE-INC-43344373/company/
International Flavors & Fragrances is one of the world leaders in designing, producing and marketing fragrances and flavors. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
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fragrances (47.3%): intended primarily for producing cosmetics (deodorants, hair care products, etc.) and cleaning products (detergents, soaps, fabric softeners, etc.);
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flavors (43.7%): intended essentially for the food-processing (dairy products, beverages, prepared meals, candy, etc.) and pharmaceutical industries (dental care, etc.).
The remaining sales (9%) relate to the sale of food ingredients.
At the end of 2018, the group had 37 production sites worldwide. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: North America (25.4%), Europe/Africa/Middle East (35.1%), Asia (24.9%) and Latin America (14.6%).
Number of employees : 13 000 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/INTERNATIONAL-FLAVORS-F-13047/company/
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=37996&tc=7&b=2
https://www.finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1687953&tc=7
made that one-kek!. just seeing if it's anything worth noting.