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San Francisco: As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
At Google, laid-off employees included those who had previously received high performance reviews or held managerial positions “with annual compensation packages of $500,000 to $1 million,a reports The Information.
According to the report, 12,000 impacted employees belonged to every department, from Google Cloud and Chrome to Android and “search-related groups under senior executive Prabhakar Raghavan”.
Google Cloud laid off people in strategy, recruiting, and go-to-market teams, the report mentioned.
Google’s parent company Alphabet’s in-house research and development (R&D) division called Area 120 was also significantly hit.
Majority of the Area 120 team has been “winded down”.
At Microsoft, which laid off 10,000 employees, game development studios like Halo were the biggest hit. Other cuts impacted its mixed-reality (MR) headset teams.
Microsoft has also shut down AltspaceVR virtual reality-based social platform it acquired in 2017.
Amazon’s layoffs included jobs in the devices and services division.
The job cut affected nearly 2,000 people in hardware chief Dave Limp’s division, which is home to products like Alexa and Echo smart home devices.
CNBC reported the layoffs also included a “significant number” of employees working on the Prime Air drone delivery project.
Amazon will also shut down its charity donation programme, “AmazonSmile”, as it failed to create the impact the company hoped for.
“He has never experienced what a traditional new year is like because he was too young three years ago and he had no memory of that,” said Si Jia, who brought her 7-year-old son to the Qianmen area near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to experience the festive vibe and learn about traditional Chinese culture.
Nearly 53,000 offered prayers at Beijing’s Lama Temple but the crowds appeared to be smaller compared to pre-pandemic days. The Tibetan Buddhist site allows up to 60,000 visitors a day, citing safety reasons, and requires an advance reservation.
Throngs of residents and tourists swarmed pedestrian streets in Qianmen, enjoying snacks from barbecue and New Year rice cake stands, and some children wore traditional Chinese rabbit hats. Others held blown sugar or marshmallows shaped like rabbits.
At Taoranting Park, there was no sign of the usual bustling new year food stalls despite its walkways being decorated with traditional Chinese lanterns. A popular temple fair at Badachu Park that was suspended for three years will be back this week, but similar events at Ditan Park and Longtan Lake Park have yet to return.
The mass movement of people may cause the virus to spread in certain areas, said Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist at China’s Center for Disease Control. But a large-scale Covid-19 surge will be unlikely in the next two or three months because about 80% of the country’s 1.4 billion people have been infected during the recent wave, he wrote on the social media platform Weibo on Saturday.
The center reported 12,660 Covid-19-related deaths between Jan. 13 and 19, including 680 cases of respiratory failure caused by the virus and 11,980 fatalities from other ailments combined with Covid-19. These are on top of 60,000 fatalities reported last week since early December. The statement on Saturday said the deaths occurred in hospitals, which means anyone who died at home would not be included in the tally.
China has counted only deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official Covid-19 death toll, a narrow definition that excludes many deaths that would be attributed to Covid-19 in much of the world.
In Hong Kong, revelers flocked to the city’s largest Taoist temple, Wong Tai Sin, to burn the first incense sticks of the year. The popular ritual was suspended the last two years due to the pandemic.
Traditionally, big crowds gather before 11 p.m. on Lunar New Year’s Eve, with everyone trying to be the first, or among the first, to put their incense sticks into the stands in front of the temple’s main hall. Worshippers believe those who are among the first to place their incense sticks will stand the best chance of having their prayers answered.
Resident Freddie Ho, who visited the temple on Saturday night, was happy that he could join the event in person.
“I hope to place the first incense stick and pray that the New Year brings world peace, that Hong Kong’s economy will prosper, and that the pandemic will go away from us and we can all live a normal life,” Ho said. “I believe this is what everyone wishes.”
Meanwhile, the crowds praying for good fortune at the historic Longshan Temple in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, were smaller than a year ago even as the pandemic has eased. That is partly because many had ventured to other parts of Taiwan or overseas on long-awaited trips.
As communities across Asia welcomed the Year of the Rabbit, the Vietnamese were celebrating the Year of the Cat instead. There’s no official answer to explain the difference. But one theory suggests cats are popular because they often help Vietnamese rice farmers to chase away rats.
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Some claim that the first day in the third week of January is the most depressing one in the calendar. This year, Blue Monday arrived with added cruelty – for those of us who happen to be single, at least. A financial services firm chose just that miserable moment to reveal how much more expensive it is to live on your own than in a couple.
If you’re currently alone, and the post-holiday slump already has you feeling down about it, you may want to look away now. According to the brokers Hargreaves Lansdown, the cost of living premium for being single comes in at an average £860 a month, factoring in typical expenses from rent and energy bills to groceries, wifi and TV subscriptions.
That’s a whopping figure in isolation – an additional £10,000 a year in outgoings – and it wounds even deeper when you compare it with what your partnered friends are paying. The average couple spend £991 per person, so if you’re living alone you’re spending nearly twice the amount they are on the exact same goods and services. For those who didn’t choose their solo state, it’s adding impecuniousness to injury.
As a long-term single, I’ve become inured to the injustice of the single supplement – the one that demands I pay extra for eating less breakfast and soiling fewer towels. I scoff at the misleadingly titled “discount” I receive from the council, which taxes me 75% of the married rate for using only 50% of the services (and arguably less, because I’m childless).
Still, I’ve rarely wasted much time wondering how life without a partner affects my finances. That’s not because I’m comfortably cushioned by personal wealth (which would be nice) but because I have always assumed these things even out overall.Since I don’t share my worldly goods with another person, I have never watched my bank account being depleted by someone making purchases I neither want nor need. Nor have I copped the eye-watering expense of raising children or had to stump up the galling legal fees and potentially lifelong financial commitments of a divorce.
There is another reason I’ve resisted contemplating the economic disadvantages of living alone. Women are already conditioned to perceive the unpartnered life as one of lack or absence, if not downright misery. Challenging that Bridget Jones default can be hard work and a poor-me mindset doesn’t help. As someone who always pictured herself married, I have learned the hard way not to fixate on the negatives of singlehood.
Today’s climate of uncertainty, inequality and inflation is making the issue impossible to ignore. Much as I’ve loved Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters, I can’t watch Sharon Horgan’s Eva living alone in an enormous family home without wondering how she affords to heat it. Seeing last week’s figures in stone cold print has finally shaken me out of my state of denial. An extra 10 grand a year? The comparative financial benefits of singledom and coupledom aren’t swings and roundabouts at all, they’re snakes and ladders.
More noteworthy than the vast disparity itself, one that the majority of single people have long intuited, is how we respond to it. Whatever sympathy the news may elicit for ourselves or our single friends is soon followed by a sense of impotence or even outright ambivalence. This isn’t the kind of inequality we feel compelled to challenge or change. Maybe it’s because we see singleness as a temporary status. Or maybe because we can’t shift the suspicion that a solo life is a self-indulgent one.
In the 18th century, social commentators in Britain argued for a tax on bachelors and spinsters, who were considered to contribute nothing concrete to the productivity of the nation. Frances Brooke, writing a series of articles as “Mary Singleton”, proposed that unmarried men over the age of 30 pay a shilling in the pound and unmarried women sixpence. “The very circumstance of having no burden upon their fortunes, but what merely concerns themselves, makes them of all others, the fittest to be assessed extraordinarily,” she wrote, adding that she would herself pay such a due “with the greatest pleasure”.
Living alone is a privilege, but it can also be a burden. In her brilliant book about spinsterhood, She I Dare Not Name, Donna Ward argues that “the crucial conversation to have is about the reality of this life – the social, psychological and financial implications of it and the way legislators, friends, family and neighbours can support those living it”. Most single people are living on one income in a dual-income economy – and one whose lawmakers make the fallacious assumption that they have more disposable income than their coupled counterparts.
The American social psychologist Bella DePaulo has long campaigned for more awareness of the way that society invisibly discriminates against those without partners – expecting more of them in the workplace, for instance, then robbing them through a tax system that prioritises married and family units. Maybe it is time to make a fuss about that single supplement.
Emma John is a freelance author and writer. Her book Self Contained: Scenes from a Single Life is published by Octopus
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PARIS — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz raised optimism on Sunday that the EU and the U.S. can reach a trade truce in the coming months to prevent discrimination against European companies due to American subsidies.
Speaking at a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron following a joint Franco-German Cabinet meeting in Paris, Scholz said he was “confident” that the EU and the U.S. could reach an agreement “within the first quarter of this year” to address measures under the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act that Europe fears would siphon investments in key technologies away the Continent.
“My impression is that there is a great understanding in the U.S. [of the concerns raised in the EU],” the chancellor said.
Macron told reporters that he and Scholz supported attempts by the European Commission to negotiate exemptions from the U.S. law to avoid discrimination against EU companies.
The fresh optimism came as both leaders adopted a joint statement in which they called for loosening EU state aid rules to boost home-grown green industries — in a response to the U.S. law. The text said the EU needed “ambitious” measures to increase the bloc’s economic competitiveness, such as “simplified and streamlined procedures for state aid” that would allow pumping more money into strategic industries.
The joint statement also stressed the need to create “sufficient funding.” But in a win for Berlin, which has been reluctant to talk about new EU debt, the text says that the bloc should first make “full use of the available funding and financial instruments.” The statement also includes an unspecific reference about the need to create “solidarity measures.”
EU leaders will meet early next month to discuss Europe’s response to the Inflation Reduction Act, including the Franco-German proposal to soften state aid rules.
The relationship between Scholz and Macron hit a low in recent months when the French president canceled a planned joint Cabinet meeting in October over disagreements on energy, finance and defense. But the two leaders have since found common ground over responding to the green subsidies in Washington’s Inflation Reduction Act. Macron said that Paris and Berlin had worked in recent weeks to “synchronize” their visions for Europe.
“We need the greatest convergence possible to help Europe to move forward,” he said.
But there was little convergence on how to respond to Ukraine’s repeated requests for Germany and France to deliver battle tanks amid fears there could be a renewed Russian offensive in the spring.
Asked whether France would send Leclerc tanks to Ukraine, Macron said the request was being considered and there was work to be done on this issue in the “days and weeks to come.”
Scholz evaded a question on whether Germany would send Leopard 2 tanks, stressing that Berlin had never ceased supporting Ukraine with weapons deliveries and took its decisions in cooperation with its allies.
“We have to fear that this war will go on for a very long time,” the chancellor said.
Reconciliation, for past and present
The German chancellor and his Cabinet were in Paris on Sunday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Elysée treaty, which marked a reconciliation between France and Germany after World War II. The celebrations, first at the Sorbonne University and later at the Elysée Palace, were also a moment for the two leaders to put their recent disagreements aside.
Paris and Berlin have been at odds in recent months not only over defense, energy and finance policy, but also Scholz’s controversial €200 billion package for energy price relief, which was announced last fall without previously involving the French government. These tensions culminated in Macron snubbing Scholz by canceling, in an unprecedented manner, a planned press conference with the German leader in October.
At the Sorbonne, Scholz admitted relations between the two countries were often turbulent.
“The Franco-German engine isn’t always an engine that purrs softly; it’s also a well-oiled machine that can be noisy when it is looking for compromises,” he said.
Macron said France and Germany needed to show “fresh ambition” at a time when “history is becoming unhinged again,” in a reference to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
“Because we have cleared a path towards reconciliation, France and Germany must become pioneers for the relaunch of Europe” in areas such as energy, innovation, technology, artificial intelligence and diplomacy, he said.
On defense, Paris and Berlin announced that Franco-German battalions would be deployed to Romania and Lithuania to reinforce NATO’s eastern front.
The leaders also welcomed “with satisfaction” recent progress on their joint fighter jet project, FCAS, and said they wanted to progress on their Franco-German tank project, according to the joint statement.
The joint declaration also said that both countries are open to the long-term project of EU treaty changes, and that in the shorter term they want to overcome “deadlocks” in the Council of the EU by switching to qualified majority voting on foreign policy and taxation.
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For billions of people across Asia and in Asian diaspora communities around the world, this weekend marks the beginning of the lunar new year celebrations, a two-week holiday marking the end of the Zodiac year of the Tiger, and ushering in the Year of the Rabbit – or Cat, if you are in Vietnam. For the first few days commercial activity slows or stops, as people gather with their families. For many migrant workers in China, it is often the only time of the year they can return to home towns. The holiday is steeped in tradition, with a focus on family, food, reflection and looking forward.
MALAYSIA
Daniel Lee Lih Wei, a 37-year old father of two who oversees research at Kuala Lumpur’s Sunway University and lives in the suburban town of Klang. Photograph: Vignes Balasingam/The Guardian
As a Chinese-Malaysian, lunar new year is all about passing the Chinese traditions on to the next generation, says Daniel Lee Lih Wei, a 37-year-old father of two who oversees research at Kuala Lumpur’s Sunway University and lives in the suburban town of Klang.
“I want my children to learn and experience the different and the rich culture and heritage we have and how that can be translated into their own experiences throughout their life’s journey,” he explains. “It’s about giving them that exposure and the memories that I used to have as a child.”
With that in mind, Lee Lih Wei says that the key things for his children, aged four and one, will be playing with the firecrackers, enjoying cookies and watching traditional lion dances. In elaborate and brightly coloured costumes, performances by lion dancers across the country are common during the build-up to the new year and are said to signify luck and prosperity.
Taking a week off work, Lee Lih Wei says his family will dress in coordinated outfits of varying shades of red as they reunite with family over two days. While tradition dictates that the male side of the family is visited on the eve of the lunar new year, Lee Lih Wei says modernisation means they’ll visit his wife’s family for lunch and his own for dinner.
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Last year Wen Xu wasn’t able to get to her home town in a small Anhui county, because of Covid restrictions. This time, the 26-year-old will travel from Hong Kong, where she recently moved to work as a reporter. Even two months ago this wouldn’t have been possible, but since China’s government ended its zero-Covid policy in December, Xu is among the hundreds of millions of Chinese able to once again make the journey home.
“This year for New Year’s Eve, my uncle, aunt, and cousin will come to visit us from a town nearby,” she says. “We will have a big reunion dinner with traditional family dishes such as steamed pork with rice flour and bone broth together.”
A traditional pastry made of donkey hide gelatin, or ejiao, and jujube, walnut, rose and sesame. Photograph: Ma Li/Getty Images/iStockphoto
The week will be one of food and relaxation, reading new books and catching up with a cousin who has returned from Canada. She also plans to film her mother cooking a traditional Chinese health food, ejiao.
Growing up, Xu and her cousin would excitedly finish their new year’s meal and then rush upstairs together, to count the money they had received in red packets as traditional gifts from their elder relatives. “ Even now we are grown, my cousin and I still receive red-pocket money,” she says.
There’s some sadness this year, Xu adds, as her grandfather remains ill after Covid, and can’t join them for dinner. “He has to stay with an oxygen machine in his room on the third floor.”
The Year of the Tiger was great professionally for Xu, “but not so much relationship-wise”.
“My hope for next year is to find a partner who can experience things with me, be there for each other, and support each other.”
VIETNAM
Thanh Van, 24, a hotel receptionist poses for photos in front of a restaurant near her house in Ninh Binh, Vietnam. Photograph: Linh Pham for The Guardian
“Like many Vietnamese families, we cook, we spend time thinking about the day and the year,” says Thanh Van, a 24-year-old hotel receptionist who lives in the northern city of Ninh Binh with her parents and younger sister. Known locally as Tet Nguyen Dan, or Tet, lunar new year is the most important occasion to Vietnamese people, including her family, she adds.
In the days beforehand, the family will spend hours in the kitchen making 12 chung cakes, a traditional new year dessert, which Van says symbolises the earth and “contains all the unique ingredients of the Vietnamese”, such as rice, pork, mung beans and banana. These are then gifted to family and friends alongside “lucky money”. Coveted in a red pocket, it is also a Vietnamese custom, she says, to gift money to family members in an act that ushers in luck for the year ahead. “It’s not important how much. It just means you received something lucky.”
The festivities will all culminate, she says, on New Year’s Eve when Van plans to watch the fireworks before visiting family members on New Year’s Day. “Vietnamese people believe what they do on the first day of the new year will affect the rest therefore they pay great attention to every word they say and everything they do,” she says.
TAIWAN
Stacy Liu, 32, is heading to her home town in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, on Friday. The Taipei resident usually goes home for a whole week, to spend quality time with her family and catch up with childhood friends who are also back for the holiday.
The traditional Chinese food Fo Tiao Qiang. Photograph: insjoy/Getty Images/iStockphoto
“The first three days of lunar new year are the biggest and the most important days and you want to spend them with your family,” she says. When she was younger they would visit her father’s side of the family first, and then go to her maternal grandmother’s house. “The second day is traditionally when the married daughter goes back to her home,” she says. “My grandma is a very traditional woman so we could only go back to her house on that day – otherwise apparently it’s going to bring bad luck.”
But in recent years they have kept it small, with just Liu, her two younger sisters and their partners gathering at their parents’ home. “I find that more and more families are not doing the most traditional way with all the relatives coming home,” she says.
On New Year’s Eve the family will stay in, cooking traditional dishes like “Buddha jumps over the wall”, chicken soup, braised fish, and mustard greens.
“The leftovers from New Year’s Eve are enough for the next two days of dinner, but for lunch we’ll go out to a nicer restaurant,” she says. “We made a reservation about a month ago. You need to book ahead for New Year.”
Liu and her family will stay home and eat plenty, hike in the nearby mountains and play mahjong. She hopes this year will see the end of Covid worries, and the chance to build her Mandarin-tutoring business so she can work remotely and travel.
SINGAPORE
Chua Yiying Charmaine at Sago street in Singapore. Photograph: Amrita Chandradas/The Guardian
For Chua Yiying Charmaine, a 21-year-old real estate student at the National University of Singapore, lunar new year means leaving campus to travel home to the east of Singapore. Here, she’ll reunite with her parents, younger brother and sister for what she calls a “typical” celebration.
“Most Singaporean Chinese families prioritise the reunion dinner,” she explains. This is a large gathering of extended family the night before lunar new year. “I usually don’t get to spend that much time with my family any more because of work and school so I think this year will be especially nice.”
While it’s yet to be decided whether the festivities will take place at her parents’ or grandmother’s house, either way, Charmaine says she’ll begin cooking with her grandmother around 4pm, making traditional dishes such as bakwa, salty-sweet dried meat, and lo hei, a Cantonese-style raw fish salad. “Usually people buy it because it’s very tedious to make … but my family likes to make it from scratch.”
The few days prior will be packed, she says, with visits to loved ones; a pair of oranges in hand to offer as a traditional token. “I enjoy it because it’s a type of celebration, and I think it’s always good to have that kind of festivity in your life. It helps everybody loosen up a little bit,” Charmaine says.
HONG KONG
Tabitha Mui’s favourite childhood memories of lunar new year are visiting relatives and receiving “lucky money” in lai see (red packets) and “endless amounts of sweets and coin chocolates”.
Traditional Chinese poon choi reunion dinner Photograph: AsiaVision/Getty Images
On New Year’s Eve, the extended family would gather together and share traditional dishes like braised Chinese mushrooms with fat choy (black moss seaweed), chicken, fish, and the Hakka-style poon choi (one bowl feast).
“The best things for kids were the long holidays and we wore Chinese costumes to school for new year parties,” she recalls.
“Now that I’m married, the most important thing is to have a New Year’s Eve reunion dinner with the older generation in our family. Both my husband and I come from big families so we’ll be busy. I’ll prepare presents for the older relatives and lai see money for the young ones.”
Hong Kong, like many parts of east Asia, were among the last to lift pandemic border restrictions and reopen for travellers. It makes Mui a little wary, now that visitors will be returning to the city. “I hope everyone in my family will stay healthy,” she says. “We’ll have to be cautious.”
“As for my hope for the Year of the Rabbit – I hope my work will be smooth, and I hope for world peace.”
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