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Big plays in 2nd half propel Hudsonville football to win over Adams, into D1 title gameSET-listed Demco, a contractor and engineering service provider, is continuing to rack up revenue in the final quarter, helped by a recent contract to build electricity transmission systems worth 270 million baht. The contract, awarded by Siam Power Generation in Rayong, includes the construction of a 230/115 kilovolt (kV) substation with 230kV underground systems and a 115kV transmission line. Construction is scheduled for completion in early 2026, said Pongsak Sirikupt, chief executive and managing director of Demco. The contract is part of Demco's plan to increase revenue in the fourth quarter this year. "We have to drive growth in the fourth quarter by bidding for new projects in the state and private sectors," said Mr Pongsak. He said the company has an opportunity to grow more revenue in the final quarter, following an outstanding performance in the third quarter. From July to September, the company posted a net profit of 62.5 million baht, an increase of 248% year-on-year, said Mr Pongsak. For the first nine months of this year, Demco's net profit was 20.5 million baht, a year-on-year increase of 311%. The company is committed to clearing a backlog worth 3.15 billion baht, with 3 billion baht coming from electrical engineering work and the remainder from jobs related to communication and signalling, as well as renewable energy. He said Demco is seeking new opportunities in businesses related to smart grids, energy storage systems, battery-powered vehicles and carbon credit trade. Carbon credits refer to the amount of carbon dioxide emissions reduced by environmental projects, including clean energy development and environmentally friendly businesses. The credits can be sold to other companies to offset the carbon dioxide they release into the air. Demco announced earlier it plans to diversify into digital technology businesses and continue to grow its renewable energy portfolio. The company is keen to diversify into new energy businesses, especially those applying digital technology such as smart grid development.Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released and are returning to the United States, the White House said Wednesday, announcing a diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration. The three are Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung , all of whom had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained by China. Swidan had been facing a death sentence on drug charges while Li and Leung were imprisoned on espionage charges. “Soon they will return and be reunited with their families for the first time in many years,” the White House said in a statement. The release comes just two months after China freed David Lin, a Christian pastor from California who had spent nearly 20 years behind bars after being convicted of contract fraud. U.S.-China relations have been roiled for years over major disagreements between the world’s two largest economies on trade, human rights, the production of fentanyl precursors, security issues that include espionage and hacking, China’s aggressiveness toward Taiwan and its smaller neighbors in the South China Sea, and Beijing’s support for Russia’s military-industrial sector. The release of Americans deemed wrongfully detained in China has been a top agenda item in each conversation between the U.S. and China, and Wednesday’s development suggests a willingness by Beijing to engage with the outgoing Democratic administration before Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January. Trump took significant actions against China on trade and diplomacy during his first term. He has pledged to continue those policies in his second term, leading to unease among many who fear that an all-out trade war will greatly affect the international economy and could spur potential Chinese military action against Taiwan. Still, the two countries have maintained a dialogue that has included a partial restoration of military-to-military contacts. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met earlier this month to discuss potential improvements. A U.S. official said the Biden administration had raised the cases of the detained Americans with China in multiple meetings over the past several years, including earlier this month when Biden spoke to Xi on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru. Politico was first to report the men’s release, which it said was part of a prisoner swap with the U.S. The White House did not immediately confirm that any Chinese citizens had been returned home. Li, a Chinese immigrant who started an export business in the U.S., was detained in September 2016 after flying into Shanghai. He was placed under surveillance, interrogated without a lawyer and accused of providing state secrets to the FBI. A U.N. working group called his 10-year prison sentence arbitrary and his family said the charges were politically motivated. Leung was sentenced last year to life in prison on spying charges. He was detained in 2021, by the local bureau of China’s counterintelligence agency in the southeastern city of Suzhou after China had closed its borders and imposed tight domestic travel restrictions and social controls to fight the spread of COVID-19. Swidan had been jailed for 12 years on a drug charge and, along with Li and Leung, had considered by the State Department to be wrongfully detained.
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin went viral for the messaging advice she offered to Democrats. MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin went on an unprecedented tear against her own network as well as her "Morning Joe" colleagues Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on her podcast, defiantly criticizing her employer's business model and ratcheting up her attacks towards the duo for revealing their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. On Friday's installment of " Jen Rubin's Green Room ," Rubin accused Scarborough and Brzezinski of "forgetting" that their audience "despises Trump" and that viewers wanted them to "hold the line against Trump" instead of engaging with the incoming president. "What were they thinking? Who do they think their audience was?" Rubin asked. "Well, perhaps this wasn't about their audience. Perhaps this was them trying to defend themselves or avoid retribution that they thought was coming their way. But really, these are rich, famous people. What have they got to worry about? It was just an appalling example at how eager so many elites are to fall in line, to curry favor, to deflect attention, to deflect any kind of incoming criticism that might come their way from the White House." MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR FUELS ‘MORNING JOE’ BOYCOTT AFTER TRUMP MEETING: THEY DON'T ‘APPRECIATE’ THEIR AUDIENCE MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin continued lobbing attacks towards her "elite" colleagues Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough over their meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images; Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) "So they are getting hammered for it. They are hemorrhaging their audience. And this, of course, only exacerbates the reason and the problem why MSNBC and its other cable networks are being spun off. And that is, cable television is dying," Rubin said. "Most of you probably haven't watched MSNBC since the election either, and not understanding your audience and continuing to serve up the same chewed-over talking points with the same panels, essentially same program day, after day, after day, hour after hour, is no longer working. So Comcast has said, 'Fine, spin you off. You guys go fend for yourselves. And the question after the spin-off is completed will be whether that's a viable business model. Can they afford to pay Rachel Maddow, God bless her, 20 plus million dollars a year? Is there advertising to support that? Are there cable fees to support that? We don't know. We don't know if MSNBC, a year from now, is gonna exist, or whether it's gonna be in some slim down fashion." WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST CLAIMS ‘REPUBLICANS WANT TO KILL YOUR KIDS: ’IT'S ACTUALLY TRUE' Rubin, also a Washington Post columnist, went on by offering suggestions on how MSNBC can "rethink their model." "Get rid of the pattern of chewing over the same three or four stories all day long with a shuffling of panelists all parroting back the same line to the host, this is not working. It's boring. It's not good TV. They need to do something else, and they should look to models that are successful," Rubin said. "They should look to people like The Onion. Hey, they've purchased Info Wars. I can't wait to watch what they're gonna program. They should look to shows that, yes, are perhaps lighter on the news, but actually have much more information than they do." Rubin took several swipes at her employer MSNBC on her podcast. (Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images) She went on to say that viewers "get more from a John Oliver monologue" than they do "from a day or two of watching CNN or MSNBC." "And by the way, I'm an MSNBC contributor," Rubin reminded her liberal audience. "At least I have the honesty, I have the candor, to tell you this is not gonna work, and this is not continuing to work. And what's more, by hanging on to these legacy outlets that are failing, I think Democrats fail to explore other options. They fail to look for other avenues to communicate with the public. They are relying on dying outlets in a dying industry, cable TV news, and they have to be way more innovative, way more creative in figuring out ways to reach people, including people who don't like politics all that much, and that's the big challenge. Those were the people who, frankly, went along voting for Trump because they did not know too much about what he had in mind and what he had planned, and really his threat to their well-being." MSNBC'S FUTURE A ‘BIG CONCERN’ FOR STAFFERS AS COMCAST MOVES TO SEPARATE LIBERAL NETWORK FROM NBCUNIVERSAL "So I think once we get past a stage in which we are doing the same thing over and over again, otherwise known as the definition of insanity- if you expect a different result, then perhaps we can experience some innovation, and maybe we can expect something better from news... But you know one thing, you can always come here, because I'm gonna tell you what I think. I'm gonna be provocative... We're gonna tell the truth. We're gonna talk to you. I want to hear from you, because unlike Mika and Joe, I care about my audience, and I wanna hear what you think," Rubin added. Rubin did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital 's request for comment. A spokesperson for MSNBC declined to comment. Rubin said viewers "get more from a John Oliver monologue" than they do "from a day or two of watching CNN or MSNBC." (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images) While Rubin is currently urging MSNBC to get rid of the formula of "panelists all parroting back the same line to the host," she was notably vocal against NBC's hiring of former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel (she was fired following swift backlash from the network's liberal stars). Ruben previously fueled a boycott against "Morning Joe." "The market works great. You can stop watching Morning Joe anytime," Rubin wrote on social media Monday. She then added on the social media site BlueSky :, "On MJ: If you don't appreciate the audience you have, betray that audience and lose their trust you are [going] to lose lots of them. I have seen this movie." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Rubin was also outspoken against her other employer The Washington Post and its billionaire over Jeff Bezos over his decision to halt the paper's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris just days before the election. "First of all, I do not believe the reason stated. I don't believe they have suddenly decided— he has suddenly decided that we should endorse everybody except presidential candidates, and that of all the elections, this is the one to start with this new policy," Rubin said on her podcast last month . "We endorsed a presidential candidate in 2020 no problem. And I perceive this, and even if it's not intended, it is inevitably perceived as bending the knee to Donald Trump at the worst possible moment when democracy is on the line." "You have a billionaire who has a business aside from the Post that does business with the federal government deciding not to run afoul of a man who has declared war on democracy and on the free press, and I still find it absolutely inconceivable that someone who owns a newspaper would do this," she continued." Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
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Marshall vs. Old Dominion FREE LIVE STREAM (11/23/24): Watch college football, Week 13 online | Time, TV, channelCALGARY, Alberta (AP) — A Ukrainian girls’ hockey team is in Canada for a few days of peace and hockey in an arena that doesn’t have a missile-sized hole in its roof. After 56 hours of travel to Calgary, including a 24-hour bus ride from Dnipro to Warsaw, Poland, that required army escort for a portion of it, the Ukrainian Wings will join Wickfest, Hayley Wickenheiser’s annual girls’ hockey festival, on Thursday. The squad of players aged 11 to 13 was drawn from eight different cities in Ukraine, where sport facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Russia started its invasion in February 2022. “They all have a personal story of something awful happening,” said Wickenheiser. “We give them a week of peace and joy here, and I hope they can carry that with them. “We know full well they’re going back to difficult circumstances. It’s tough that way.” Nine players are from Kharkiv, where pictures show a large hole in the roof of the Saltovskiy Led arena where the girls’ team WHC Panthers once skated. “It was our home ice arena, and we played all our national team championships in this ice arena,” said Kateryna Seredenko, who oversees the Panthers program and is the Wings general manager. RELATED COVERAGE Minnesota Frost rookie Claire Thompson trades stethoscope for hockey stick to resume playing career PWHL New York Sirens’ trajectory points up with addition of rookie star Sarah Fillier and new home PWHL releases neutral-site schedule with games ranging from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest Ukraine’s Olympic Committee posted photos and wrote in a Facebook post Sept. 1 that Kharkiv’s Sport Palace, which was home to multiple hockey teams, was also destroyed in an attack on the city. Seredenko says the Wings’ arduous journey to Calgary was worth it because it gives the girls hope. “It’s not a good situation in Ukraine, but when they come here, they can believe that everything will be good, everything will be fine, of course we will win soon and we must play hockey. We can’t stop because we love these girls and we will do everything for them,” she said. “So many girls on this Ukrainian team are future players of the national team.” Wickenheiser, a Hockey Hall of Famer , is the assistant general manager of player development for the Toronto Maple Leafs and a doctor who works emergency room shifts in the Toronto area. The six-time Olympian and four-time gold medalist organized her first Wickfest after the 2010 Winter Games. She’s had teams from India, Mexico and the Czech Republic attend over the last decade and a half, but never a team that ran the Ukrainians’ gauntlet of logistics. The Canadian Partnership for Women and Children’s Health took on the task of arranging visas and paying for the team’s travel. “We care about women and children’s health. Sport is such a symbol. When you see a group of girls coming off the ice all sweaty and having worked hard on the ice, it’s a symbol of a healthy girl,” said chief executive officer Julia Anderson. “That’s a healthy kid that’s able to participate in sport. We really believe if we can get girls there, whether they’re in an active war zone, or here in Canada, those girls will change the world.” The Wings aren’t the first Ukrainians to seek a hockey haven in Canada since the war began. An under-25 men’s team played four games against university squads in early 2023 to prepare for that year’s world university games. Ukrainian teams have also twice played in the Quebec City International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. “It’s the first time in Ukrainian history where a girls’ team is coming to Canada to a very good tournament,” Seredenko said. “They can see how they can play in their future. And they can see how it is to play hockey in Canada.” ___ AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports
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Chinese authorities are contending with a weakening yuan as global investment banks forecast the currency to hit record lows, in anticipation of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump following through with his tariff threats. Philadelphia news 24/7: Watch NBC10 free wherever you are Major investment banks and research firms project offshore yuan to weaken to an average 7.51 per dollar through the end of 2025, according to CNBC's calculation of forecasts from 13 institutions. That would mark the currency's weakest level on record, according to LSEG data going back to 2004. Trump on Monday said he would impose an additional 10% tariff on all Chinese goods coming into the U.S., according to a post on his social media platform Truth Social. Trump had already pledged 60% or higher tariffs on Chinese goods during his election campaign. "U.S. tariffs would, other things equal, lead to an appreciation of the dollar ... currencies of economies with close trade links to the U.S. would see the largest currency adjustments," said Jonas Goltermann, deputy chief markets economist at Capital Economics. The yuan would need to move to a level of 8.42 against the dollar to fully factor in 60% tariffs on all Chinese goods, according to the projection of Mitul Kotecha, Barclays' head of FX & EM macro strategy of Asia. The offshore yuan has lost over 2% since the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5, and last traded at 7.2514 on Thursday. During the initial round of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods under Trump's first term as president in 2018, the yuan depreciated by about 5%, according to Reuters , and weakened another 1.5% the following year when trade tensions intensified. China has maintained a tight control over the yuan's value onshore by setting a daily price with the currency allowed to trade within a 2% band around that price. Offshore trading is more market-driven. "The uncertainty is a lot higher this time" than during Trump's first term in office, given the size of tariff threat and magnitude of trade imbalance between China and the U.S., said Ju Wang, head of Greater China FX & rates strategy at BNP Paribas. "Any perceived lack of consistency in the new US administration's policy statements would also add to the uncertainty," Wang added, who expects the PBOC to take "counter-cyclical measures to prevent its currency from overshooting the topside." Chinese authorities are facing a tough call of protecting the yuan from falling too much while striving to get the economy back on track. Any drastic depreciation of yuan could risk exacerbating capital outflows and sending shocks to the financial markets, economists said. "The CNY is already close to the 7.3 per USD level that authorities have been trying to defend," said Cedric Chehab, chief economist at BMI," a push through this level would increase volatility for Chinese financial markets, which the PBOC would want to avoid." But the challenge is that the central bank may not want to raise interest rates to contain yuan's decline, as that would weigh on growth of an already faltering economy, Chehab added. The PBOC has been supporting the value of onshore yuan by capping the daily reference rate at 7.20 on the dollar this year. This month, the central bank also kept several major policy rates unchanged as it seeks to stabilize the currency. The exchange rate will be maintained "basically stable at an adaptive and balanced level," a central bank official said in a statement last week. The stabilizing efforts will arrest some depreciation expectation and support broader Asian FX stability, said Wei Liang Chang, global FX and credit strategist at DBS Bank, who is hopeful that "a recovery is on the cards when U.S. rates soften further." The U.S. dollar index has pared its gains after Trump announced the nomination of Scott Bessent as the next U.S. Treasury secretary, coming off from a two-year peak of 108.09 last Friday. While Bessent, a hedge fund manager, has supported Trump's tariffs, he has advocated a "layered in" approach . "Such policy positions should help contain trade risks, create room for negotiations, and ultimately curb excessive RMB outflows," Chang added.
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