today's special guest is katy tang. [♪♪♪] >> hi.hris manners, and you're watching san francisco rising, the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and revitalizing our city. with us today is katy tang, and she's talk to -- talking to us about assistance and services provided to local businesses. can we talk about the role of the office of small business? many small businesses are struggling to help. how can you help? >> director tang: we are here as the city's central point of information for all things small businesses, so we can help people start, stay, and grow in the city. if you want to start a small business, we can pair you up with small business advisors, who can talk you through your business plan, help you develop it, whether it's regulatory requirements, business permits, and just help you understand the journey that was up ahead. and if you'd like to stay in san francisco and perhaps your business is facing challenges, we can also pair you with a business advisor who can assess your business needs and figure out

today's special guest is katy tang. [♪♪♪] >> hi.hris manners, and you're watching san francisco rising, the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and revitalizing our city. with us today is katy tang, and she's talk to -- talking to us about assistance and services provided to local businesses. can we talk about the role of the office of small business? many small businesses are struggling to help. how can you help? >> director tang: we are here as the city's central point of information for all things small businesses, so we can help people start, stay, and grow in the city. if you want to start a small business, we can pair you up with small business advisors, who can talk you through your business plan, help you develop it, whether it's regulatory requirements, business permits, and just help you understand the journey that was up ahead. and if you'd like to stay in san francisco and perhaps your business is facing challenges, we can also pair you with a business advisor who can assess your business needs and figure out

tang. she will speak in chinese very short and then jen, our director of our program will do the translation for her. ms. tang. [foreign language] [applause] >> hello, everyone. [foreign language] >> interpreter: i'll do the translation. so, hello everyone. my name is pang tang and i'm 72 years old. i came to the united states in 2012 from china. are -- i become a u.s. citizen in 2022. [applause] i'm delighted to be here to share with you my pride and joy in becoming an american citizen. >> [foreign language] >> interpreter: for the first few years in the united states, i couldn't imagine myself passing the test to become a u.s. citizen because i didn't know english. later through the naturalization class of ms. tang which was run by self-help for the elderly, i'm english blind person who didn't know abc and i mastered the basic knowledge for the naturalization test. last year, i got a service of filling out the naturalization form and the fee waiver form for free at the san francisco pathw

today's special guest is katy tang. [♪♪♪] >> hi.hris manners, and you're watching san francisco rising, the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and revitalizing our city. with us today is katy tang, and she's talk to -- talking to us about assistance and services provided to local businesses. can we talk about the role of the office of small business? many small businesses are struggling to help. how can you help? >> director tang: we are here as the city's central point of information for all things small businesses, so we can help people start, stay, and grow in the city. if you want to start a small business, we can pair you up with small business advisors, who can talk you through your business plan, help you develop it, whether it's regulatory requirements, business permits, and just help you understand the journey that was up ahead. and if you'd like to stay in san francisco and perhaps your business is facing challenges, we can also pair you with a business advisor who can assess your business needs and figure out

a fringe movement known as tang ping, or lying flat, is ruffling the government's feathers. of passive protest that involves dropping out of china's competitive work culture and rejecting material success. the communist party has labeled tang ping a threat to stability. state media calls it shameful. online discussion of the movement is censored. lee: [speaking in foreign language] lee: [speaking in foreign language] lee: [speaking in foreign language] lee: [speaking in foreign language] male: [speaking in foreign language] lee: [speaking in foreign language[ machine: [speaking in foreign language] ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪ jia: [speaking in foreign language] jia: [speaking in foreign language] jia: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreign language] jia: [speaking in foreign language] jia: [speaking in foreign language] jia: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreign language] female: [speaking in foreig

1949, we pay a visit to $1.00 of the sunflower movement activists in the parliament building. audrey tang has now twice been appointed, taiwanese digital minister by the president, chief, the world's 1st openly transgender national minister. and as a former hacker, she is also an advocate for radical transparency. this is his interview. i need to make ah, everything the minister says to the press is made available to the people of taiwan . our entire interview will be posted to her, you to channel. all her government statements are posted there too. ah, they're basically just speak my mind. so that's no extra training required. i guess of course a lot of the actual work is of course also a group effort. i think my main contribution is that individuals is to insist that the materials are forming the message and also the medium is delivered as creative coma. oh lou today, tang wants to encourage tie when he citizens to purchase government issued spending vouchers. the goal is to stimulate the local economy in the wake of the pandemic. unlike the more formal chinese style of official communi

director tang? most of you have seen some version of the document out lining the commission and the office mall business strategic prior and goals for the fiscal year. based on feedback we have separated out the first page you seat clearly the commissions priorities based on the retreat and the dialogue from that. the backside are the strategic goals for the office small business. on the backside nothing changed t. is a reformatting for ease of understanding what our strategic goal and priorities are. open to questions that you have or feedback. upon commissioner huie. director tang i think this looks really good. [laughter]. >> i want to mention it continues on the other side of the -- i also second that. it is good and clear from the last meeting. it is easy to -- read >> great. >> with that i ask for the commission a formal adoption of the strategic priority and goals for the next fiscal year. >> take public comment. first. >> let's me check in if there is you have comments. >> okay. is there pub

oh, today, tang wants to encourage tie when he citizens to purchase government issued spending vouchers. the goal is to stimulate the local economy in the wake of the pandemic. unlike the more formal chinese style of official communication, audrey tang isn't afraid to let her personality shop. i live on virtual vouchers, come and get them all the humorous clips don't take much time to me with wow, hurry follow kyle young taiwanese love it. colorful, whimsical. a very effective public message minister audrey tongue is very creative . she always has new ideas that are ahead of her time, especially when it comes to technology. the digital minister has contributed to another unique instrument which emerged from the gulf 0 community called v taiwan for virtual taiwan. it's an online platform that allows for civic debate on legislative the fostering this digital democracy is one side of audrey tang's work. but there's another more disquieting side in late 2021 time when he's official set, the government faced up to 5000000 cyber attacks or probes per day is may 2020 hackers? targeted a state

peter tang owns the. >> i'm so upset because of this. >> reporter: he says crime herey ramped up last year and has only only gotten worse since then. he worse since then. he says the police response time has been troubling. >> we call them but their respoe so late it makes it worse. >> reporter: during a news confe on tuesday, deputy chief james beard said the department is understaffed. >> currently our staffing is at. we have moment tip al cadms. going through right now. one set now. one set to graduate in oct, so that is a bright light we arg forward for the help. >> reporter: tang would like toe a better response from o p.d. bt in the meantime. >> i'm going to put more securi, and then i plan to put more security over here. >> reporter: in oakland, max da, kpix 5. > >> jessica the weather is pretty weather is pretty nice. >> it feels like summer. even th today is the first day of fallful kind of funny how that works. earlier this week we wery dealing with more pacific northwest weather. it was beautiful. we got a lot of rain associated with that huge area of low pressure. now we a

in the city of tang sion, janet gigi and 4 other defendants were found guilty of violently assaulting women at a restaurant in june. after one woman rejected his advances, a court also sentenced $27.00. other defendants to prison terms ranging from 6 months to 11 years for their involvement case bought widespread anger over violence against women in china. more than 2 and a half years after it 1st came into effect, hong kong government is an outs. going to scrap it, covered hotel quarantine policy for all people arriving in the territory system will. and on monday, travelers will be instead asked to monitor themselves for symptoms for 3 days after entering and pre flight p. c r test will be replaced by a rapid antigen test. aside from mainland china, hong kong has been a global outlier and imposing hotel quarantine for international arrivals. now, indian film industries produce nearly 2000 movies each year, more than any other country, but a biggest and best known of them. bollywood is struggling to fill theaters in 201939 percent of bollywood films were considered a financial failure

the muslim quarter dates back to the tang - quarter dates back to the tang genesee but these days you holding on. translation: ijust she's barely holding on. translation: i just started she's barely holding on. translation: ijust started my business and pay two years right the day before _ business and pay two years right the day before the pandemic closed us. chinese _ day before the pandemic closed us. chinese hospitals are not swamped with coronavirus patients but its policies are crushing the economy and isolating the country. if the government has a way out it's not revealing it. leaving a huge question over how this could end. we will be having lots more reports about the leadership congress, the chinese communist party and the lead up chinese communist party and the lead up to that event so do stay tuned right here on bbc news and all our bbc news platforms. right here on bbc news and all our bbc news platforms. the 20 time grand slam champion roger federer has told the bbc that he wants to stay involved with tennis in some shape or form after his retirement this week. the swis

tang. she will speak in chinese very short and then jen, our director of our program will do the translation for her. ms. tang. [foreign language] [applause] >> hello, everyone. [foreign language] >> interpreter: i'll do the translation. so, hello everyone. my name is pang tang and i'm 72 years old. i came to the united states in 2012 from china. are -- i become a u.s. citizen in 2022. [applause] i'm delighted to be here to share with you my pride and joy in becoming an american citizen. >> [foreign language] >> interpreter: for the first few years in the united states, i couldn't imagine myself passing the test to become a u.s. citizen because i didn't know english. later through the naturalization class of ms. tang which was run by self-help for the elderly, i'm english blind person who didn't know abc and i mastered the basic knowledge for the naturalization test. last year, i got a service of filling out the naturalization form and the fee waiver form for free at the san francisco pathw

man, there are tang shooting and it's not a tent. there are no tanks here. no, no. the tanks were in the other place. i mean to our nanny here. um, can you go back for now? the family is relatively safe, but honest. assia is waiting for the day. she can take her children. oh, next we go to finland and there shed border with russia. for many russians. it's the only don't way to the you for now. but finland is in the process of changing its visa policy. that the coolness is getting his beloved old fire truck them to shape for ac, less casual in the neighboring village. the ex fire fighter lives in that salon on the border with russia. the neighborhood has prospered for decades, almost walked almost as an adult. now it's all over those of us who live here right on the border. don't trust russia anymore. it's like having a big predator right over there. but we're not really afraid, but you have to keep an eye on this predator, russia every day that you live here is the nearest border crossing is only 5 minutes by car, several 100 cars a day passed through it. those who

tang. will speak in chinese very short and then jen, our director of our program will do the translation for her. ms. tang. [foreign language] [applause] >> hello, everyone. [foreign language] >> interpreter: i'll do the translation. so, hello everyone. my name is pang tang and i'm 72 years old. i came to the united states in 2012 from china. are -- i become a u.s. citizen in 2022. [applause] i'm delighted to be here to share with you my pride and joy in becoming an american citizen. >> [foreign language] >> interpreter: for the first few years in the united states, i couldn't imagine myself passing the test to become a u.s. citizen because i didn't know english. later through the naturalization class of ms. tang which was run by self-help for the elderly, i'm english blind person who didn't know abc and i mastered the basic knowledge for the naturalization test. last year, i got a service of filling out the naturalization form and the fee waiver form for free at the san francisco pathway t

the russians were standing well with tangs garcia and next to the tanks where people are unable to live. and then they took people way wise. it's not unable to live his code word for a book, just a few weeks. many of these kids have some and most people in the lifetime yard. it's dad is the soldier and the ukranian army. his mother decided to flee when the russians started looking for the families of ukrainian soldiers. the organizer is alexi laney. everybody calls him uncle yoshi. he wanted to create a space of soldiers if only temporary life. the war is always close. you remember as a 7 year old girl named marcia watched him to bring her friend of the campus. so he told him, different could come 2 weeks later. she does 3 months and one day she was sitting there in the hammock, crying up. i approached her and asked to blush, what's wrong? and she said, this real quick when you said my friend, whom he didn't take on. i said, yes, i remember she's coming in 2 weeks. and then she said, when i was in, she's not coming any more yet as amuse, or you have to mean, i understand it's not my fau

the measures are supposed to boost growth, but analysts say quasi quire tangs measures are a huge camp. yet the package was a tranche of economic policy hawking back to thatcher. right, and reaganomics doctrines of the 1980s high tax rates, damage britons competitive, they reduce the incentive to work to invest and to start with business, they take the additional rate of income tax. at 45 percent. it is currently higher than the headline top rate in g 7. countries like the us and italy, coatings package included capping the highest marginal tax rate at 40 percent. lowering the basic income tax rate to 19 percent from april 2023, doubling the tax free threshold for home purchasers to $250000.00 pounds. in addition, the cap on bank as bonuses has been lifted and planned rise in corporate tax has been scrapped. quoting said the package estimated to cost 45000000000 pounds, about 50000000000 euros by 2027. would reward enterprise and work plus incentivize growth. and we said the benefits would spread to the whole economy and the entire country start to fund the cuts. plus some multi 100000

xi'an�*s muslim quarter is said to date back to the tang dynasty.d after traversing the silk road. in normal times it is much more crowded with tourists. but these days you can see near—empty restaurants and businesses closed because of a lack of customers. zhang min says it takes nearly a month to make some of the bags in her shop and that people like them because they are original. but following covid restrictions, she says she has lost so much money she can barely pay the rent. many small businesses in china are onlyjust hanging in there. and there are a lot which couldn't make it through the crisis. the greater the exposure to the international economy, the worse it can be. for decades, china's economic miracle was built on being the world's factory, but this country's zero covid strategy has made this country unreliable suppliers in the eyes of overseas buyers. this place is known as a hub for the clothing industry, but here many warehouses are now empty. this factory, for example, lost a whole season of production because of the covid lockdown

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you sing wu tang, it was her favorite group. i don't get why people are so angry who cares t is not like he sang. ♪ another one bites the dust. ♪ people are too sensitive. but let's move to the bigger stories of the day, starting with a criminal case that was probably in your ears every thursday morning back in 2014. >> a judge in baltimore today overturned the murder conviction of adnan syed whose case was featured in the hit podcast serial and ordered his release from prison. know 41 he walked out of the courthouse after spending more than two decades behind bars. >> in vacating the ruling the judge found that the original prosecutors did not turn over evidence to the defense that could have helped syed. >> and evidence uncovered since would have added quote substantial and significant probability that the result would have been different. >> the decision to vacate syed's conviction came down just hours ago and tonight he's back home with family. and as you can see in this video, one of the first things he did was go right for

every year we come to the choreographic college to congratulate our teachers on teacher's day for them tangwhat we've become so that they look at us and be proud of their students and also, of course, i want to come here and dance for the children. who looked at our dance and fell in love with ballet. these are our folk artists olga gadkoy igor artamonov so anton kravchenko yes, this is my favorite partner. and here i am wondering for a long time you have already had this. it's me here, it seems that holes also love this performance very much. he is very interesting and complex, i remember my favorite teacher. e, savelyeva irina nikolaevna who devoted so many years to us all my girls, they remember everything. and how did she tell us that we must be strong? uh, because our profession owes it to this. we must be able to endure to achieve. we must strive to work, we always remember her such elementary expressions, but for us they are so significant. we always remember what they called on us, brothers, rabbits, brothers rabbits. let's well done our course is scattered all over the world all ov

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the measures are supposed to boost gross, but analysts say quasi qua, tangs measures are a huge camp. oh, the package was a tranche of economic policy hawking back to thatcher. right, and reaganomics doctrines of the 1980s high tax rates, damage britons competitive, they reduce the incentive to work to invest and to start a business, they take the additional rate of income tax. at 45 percent. it is currently higher than the headline talk rate. in g 7 countries like the us and italy, coatings package included capping the highest marginal tax rate at 40 percent, lowering the basic income tax rate to 19 percent from april 2023. doubling the tax free threshold for home purchases to $250000.00 pounds. in addition, the cap on bank as bonuses has been lifted and a plant rise in corporate tax has been scrapped. quoting said the package estimated to cost 45000000000 pounds, about 50000000000 euros by 2027. would reward enterprise and work plus incentivize growth. and we said the benefits would spread to the whole economy and the entire country, the willing stuff to fund the cuts, plus a multi

have this today is about the proclamation of the session, which means telling everybody we have a new tang and that's what's now being done through different parts of london and then out across the u. k. and to other parts of the world to kind of build by i think you told me from roy, it's a bit about the perpetuation of the monarchy and institution. the french have the saying, the king is dead long live the king because it's not an individual. it's an institution, that's exactly it, and that is a prayer that king charles is job. i mean that's what his mother spent her entire life. all this sense of duty. all these ideas about serving the people was all about and maintaining the monarchy. a sense of consistency for the country, but really maintain the monte date they saw. i mean, she must have seen dozens of different countries turning republican in her during her 70 years on the throne and something that she and her family have been fighting very hard to prevent. whether you, you know, whatever you think about republicanism or not. she's been very successful in doing this major rebranding