HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Feb. 1 kicks off the Year of the Tiger for approximately 1.5 billion people, who are celebrating Lunar New Year across the world. We know the occasion is typically showcased through cultural clothing, food, dancing, games, and more. But there are details that are not commonly known about the holiday. Houston’s Asian American community spoke with Race and Culture reporter Rosie Nguyen to give us a better insight into Asian traditions. Why is Lunar New Year on a different date every year? “Right now, we use the Gregorian calendar, which is a calendar based on the…
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — The number of fully automatic and so-called “ghost guns” Houston police are submitting to the city’s crime lab is rising each day, according to the Houston Forensic Science Center. The standoff that injured three police officers near downtown on Jan. 27 drew attention to the alarming trend. “Yes, it’s concerning,” said Peter Stout, Ph.D., CEO and the president of Houston Forensic Science Center (HFSC). “These are disturbing patterns. The sheer number of guns, we’re seeing, number of full-autos, ghost guns. They are not patterns you want to see.” Since 2019, the overall number of guns HFSC…
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — METRO police are investigating a string of car burglaries targeting catalytic converters at the Fuqua Park and Ride location. “It makes me angry because most of us, we work so hard to get what we have,” said Edgar Neri. Edgar Neri is one of the 11 reported victims METRO police are working to assist. His catalytic converter was stolen Monday when he left his car parked inside the Park and Ride lot while he was at work downtown. “Unfortunately, I was not the only one,” he said. By the time Edgar Neri arrived back to the…
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BlackBerry said Monday it is selling almost all of its legacy patents related to mobile devices, messaging, and wireless networking to a special purpose company, Catapult IP Innovations, for $600 million. BlackBerry stock was down over 5% to $7.46 in premarket trading but was up 1.4% to $7.98 early in the regular session. Shares have fallen 15.7% year to date, while the S&P 500 is down 7% in the same period. BlackBerry, a Canadian cybersecurity company, will receive $450 million in cash and $150 million in a promissory note at the closing of the transaction, which could take up to…
Meta has announced that the company is adding 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating avatars in Facebook and Messenger. People in the United States (US), Canada, and Mexico will be able to appear as their virtual selves in stickers, feed posts, Facebookd profile pictures, and more across Meta platforms, including its Quest VR platform. Aigerim Shorman, the general manager for avatars and identity, said in a blog post that the new avatars include facial shapes and assistive devices like cochlear impants, hearing aids, and wheelchairs to be more inclusive of users with disabilities. “Since revealing our…
LAHORE: After a detailed discussion over the new amendments to the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) constitution the government is reportedly introducing to control the affairs of the national sports federations, a meeting of the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) general council on Monday resolved to reject all such amendments, considering them against the IOC Charter and an agreement which the government signed with the IOC in 2015. The 120-member general council meeting which many heads of the national sports federations attended via Zoom, POA president retired Lt Gen Syed Arif Hasan informed the members that the federal government had reportedly introduced…
This year’s PSL is all about performance and fans are not being very forgiving of poor performances. Take the match between the Multan Sultans, captained by Mohammad Rizwan, and the Quetta Gladiators, captained by Sarfaraz Ahmed. The Gladiators became the first team of PSL’s season 7 to lose a match after winning the toss. Sarfaraz’s Gladiators lost by six runs and some Twitter users have been going after how volatile his emotions seemed on the field while the others have been wanting to lend him their shoulders and console him. One user said that no talent can grow in the Quetta team.…
KARACHI: For the first time in the seventh edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League, a team winning the toss ended up losing the match when Multan Sultans beat Quetta Gladiators by six runs in the most nail-biting encounter of the tournament yet. The match ended on the penultimate ball of the match with Quetta needing seven off two, when Nasim Shah, arriving at number 10, was caught smartly by Tim David on square-leg off David Willey. The Singaporean tossed the ball up after getting half a hold of it, stepped across the boundary line and then completed the catch…
BEIJING: During the past four days China has detected 119 COVID-19 cases among athletes and personnel involved in the Beijing Winter Olympics, with authorities imposing a “closed loop” bubble to keep participants, staff and media separated from the public. The tally from the weekend showed 37 new cases on Sunday, and 34 on Saturday, with most testing positive after arrival at the airport, Games organisers said on Monday. Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova said her own Olympic ambitions were over after testing positive twice following her arrival in Beijing, one of three Russian positive tests announced on Monday. “Unfortunately, my Olympic…
