News Headlines - 02 February 2017
President Trump blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refugee agreement and boasted about the magnitude of his electoral college win, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the Saturday exchange. Then, 25 minutes into what was expected to be an hour-long call, Trump abruptly ended it.
▽Billionaire Is Reported Seized From Hong Kong Hotel and Taken Into China - The New York Times
A Chinese-born billionaire who has forged financial ties with some of the country’s most powerful families was taken by the Chinese police from his apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong late last week and spirited across the border, a person close to the businessman said on Tuesday.
▽Architect Kengo Kuma's Authentic Village Beautifies Portland Japanese Gardens
Famed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, designer of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics’ National Stadium, offers some relief as creator of the Portland Japanese Garden’s new 3.4-acre Cultural Village, set to open this April. Already celebrated as perhaps the most authentic Japanese garden outside of Japan, the Oregon tourist destination’s $33.5 million expansion represents Kuma’s first public commission in the United States.
▽25 Great Books by Refugees in America - The New York Times
Through the 20th century and into this one, those fleeing political persecution or war have produced important works that we think of now as at least partly American, from fiction about the harrowing experiences of exile and dislocation to political treatises by thinkers who want to understand why their homelands fell apart. This is a sampling of 25 of those works.
▽Premier League clubs make transfer window profit for first time | The Guardian
Spending by top-flight clubs reached a six-year high for the transfer window at ￡215m but a profit was recorded for the first time in a transfer window. Premier League clubs received more in transfer fees from overseas clubs and Football League clubs than they paid out.
