2020-05-23 09:00:27 {widget1} Hong Kong was born at the crossroad of empires, a hybrid of British and Chinese parentage. It may fade there, too. This “barren rock,” as an envoy of Queen Victoria once called it, transformed into one of the world’s first truly global cities, a

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2020-05-23 11:23:16 {widget1} Marcel Ospel, who fashioned the Swiss bank UBS into a global banking power but then saw it come close to unraveling during the financial crisis of 2008, died on April 26 at his home in Wollerau, Switzerland, near Zurich. He was 70. The cause was

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2020-05-23 17:30:43 {widget1} The role of the automobile has been reinvented in the coronavirus era. Once just a way of getting from one place to another, the car has been turned into a mini-shelter on wheels, safe from contamination, a cocoon that allows its occupants to be

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