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By Sylvia ChangBBC Chinese, Hong Kong1 hour agoImage caption, Kathy Zhuo wants to save more money as China’s economy slowsDuring the pandemic, Kathy Zhuo and her husband were forced to take a 50% pay cut. It was a huge blow because she also had to take care of her mother, who was diagnosed with cancer five years ago.”We barely had money left each year. I felt insecure but didn’t know what to do,” says the 36-year-old mother of two, who lives in Fujian, a city in southern China.The shock to her family’s finances prompted Ms Zhuo to join the trend…
Jenny Gorotiza has been promoted to vice president of marketing for Island Records, it was announced today by Jay Schumer, executive VP/head of marketing and business development. Gorotiza has served as senior director of marketing at Island since 2021. Based in New York, Gorotiza wil continue to work on marketing campaigns for Shawn Mendes, Keshi, Jessie Reyez, Lauren Spencer Smith, SleazyWorld Go, and other artists on the label. “Jenny is part of the foundation of the Island Records team at a pivotal time for our label. We couldn’t be more excited to acknowledge her passion and tenacity in driving A-level…
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Jeon Jong-Seo, a South Korean actress known for roles in “Ballerina” and “Wedding Impossible,” recently stole the show at the Los Angeles Dodgers exhibition game against the Kiwoom Heroes in Seoul. Jeon Jong-seo made a mark on the audience, as well as the Dodgers’ dugout, with her first pitch. Jeon Jong-Seo during the baseball game. (X/@Barstool Sports) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} At the Gocheok Sky Dome, Jeon stood on the mound donning a Dodgers jersey and high baseball socks. As Jeon delivered the opening pitch, the camera panned to the Dodgers’ dugout and showed multiple players grinning, laughing and looking…
To be a successful freelancer, you first need to understand that it is a different arena to working … [+] for an employer, so your approach should changegetty A career as a freelancer is an exhilarating journey—one that is certainly filled with ups and downs, but nonetheless holds hope with the potential of improved working and pay conditions, and a better lifestyle, compared to working in the regular corporate sense. But since it’s not a traditional form of employment, you can’t expect to get it right from the start, without some adequate preparation. Freelancing requires you to follow a set…
Eight U.S. newspapers sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement Updated: 2:17 PM EDT Apr 30, 2024 Chat GP T is spreading fast. Language models assist in day to day tasks from writing html code, providing recipes or giving relationship advice. Observers call it exciting and terrifying. So are language models another digital distraction or are they the next evolution? This is clarify on the topic of information overload. The scientist Conrad Gessner described the modern world as confusing and harmful. It’s common to see this sentiment used in reference to social media streaming services and digital attachment. Yet…
Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry (R-NC) waded into the escalating feud between financial regulators and the crypto industry on Tuesday, accusing SEC Chair Gary Gensler of having “misled Congress” regarding the agency’s stance on Ethereum. McHenry’s comments come following the revelation that the SEC has internally considered Ethereum (ETH) to be an unregistered security for over a year, according to unredacted portions of a lawsuit filed against the regulator by Ethereum software company Consensys. In the intervening period, Gensler has repeatedly refused to comment about the SEC’s position on Ethereum, which is second only to Bitcoin…
This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Ditching the Degree series, where women who have built six-figure careers without a bachelor’s degree reveal the secrets of their success. Got a story to tell? Let us know! Email us at AskMakeIt@cnbc.com.Hannah Maruyama took her first college class when she was 16 — and quickly decided she never wanted to go back. She enrolled part-time at Georgia Southern University in Savannah as a high school junior at the encouragement of one of her teachers. “He could tell I was bored in high school, but I didn’t find college much more stimulating, either,” Maruyama, now 29,…
NTD’S 8th International Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Competition is coming soon. The event is organized by NTD, and will begin in June. One contestant shares his story of overcoming childhood illness—and how a Bruce Lee movie changed his life. Taiwan’s Lin Chi-Hsien is a former silver medalist in the “Southern Fist” category, and he’s returning to the competition this year. He’s now a top-notch martial artist, but that wasn’t always the case. Mr. Lin says he was weak and sickly as a child. “When I was six years old, my father took me to see Bruce Lee’s ‘Enter the Dragon,’…
Maria Jones started selling clothing on Poshmark in October 2017. The 32-year-old, Garden Valley, California, mother of two initially started by selling clothes from her own closet. “The first thing I sold was my own personal H&M shirt,” she says, and she quickly realized she could make a business selling other used clothing as well.By 2020, she’d made tens of thousands of dollars on the site and decided to quit her full-time job in sales management to focus on motherhood and building out her store, The Lemon Theory. Among her tricks for buying cheap but quality inventory was purchasing pallets…
