The future of Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services
Ted Sarandos, 59, co-CEO of Netflix, worked his way up in the now-defunct DVD industry before moving straight to Netflix when the company was still renting DVDs by mail. Mike Hopkins, 55, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, was immersed in digital as CEO of Hulu, the pioneering streaming service owned by Disney,…
Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza City; The victims are reported
A UN-run school in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, in May. Most of these schools are now used as shelters.Credit…Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock Karim al-Masri was due to start his final exams on Saturday morning, a few weeks after graduating. Instead, he spent the morning filling bags of water to freeze into ice, which he sold…
When the only way out of the war in Gaza is to buy your way out
In February, when Dr Ghayyda traveled to the Egyptian capital to register his parents, sister and nephew, he took his 23-year-old son with him to avoid carrying more than $10,000. By then he had raised about $25,000. “The whole process was quite long, complex and uncertain,” he said. In an interview in his office in…
Chinese restaurants are moving to Hong Kong
In the Shek Tong Tsui area, where Return Home Hunan opened in May, many of the brightly colored restaurants – once mainstays of the neighborhood – had recently closed their doors. A restaurant that served cheap noodles and milk tea was gone, as was a restaurant where retirees gathered to eat dim sum and catch…
The United States imposes sanctions on the Israeli group for blocking humanitarian convoys in Gaza
The State Department announced Friday that it will impose sanctions on a right-wing Israeli group that tried to prevent aid from reaching people in the Gaza Strip by blocking trucks traveling from Jordan to the coastal enclave. The department’s statement said the sanctioned organization, Tzav 9, was “a violent Israeli extremist group that blocked, harassed…