Early Headlines: Greece Still Hogging Headlines, Oscar Winners and More

Early Bird Headlines 23 February 2015

Econintersect: Here are some of the headlines we found to help you start your day. For more headlines see our afternoon feature for GEI members, What We Read Today, which has many more headlines and a number of article discussions to keep you abreast of what we have found interesting.

U.S.

• Oscars 2015: Full List Of Winners (Forbes) Birdman surprise winner Best Picture.
  
• Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher (The New York Times) Scientist accepted more than $1.2 million from fossil fuel industry.
  

Greece

• Greece bailout: Deadline looms for crucial reforms (BBC News) List of reforms to lenders in order to secure a bailout extension is due by tonight.
• Greece races to finalize reform measures ahead of deadline (Deutsche Welle) Expected: Measures to make the Greek civil service more effective; combat tax evasion; deregulation; privatization; and social security reforms.
• Greece prepares reform plans but cracks appear in Syriza party (Al Jazeera) Greek critics say deal keeps unpopular austerity measures.
• Explainer: Why Austerity Won’t Save Greece (Bloomberg Business)
• Has Greece Really Made Progress With Europe? (Bloomberg Business) Opinion on the street in Athens seems to think progress has been made.

Egypt

• Al-Azhar top cleric calls for religious teaching reform (BBC News) Calls for a radical reform of religious teaching to tackle the spread of Islamic extremism.
• Egypt president says need growing for joint Arab force (Al Jazeera) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says need for “unified” regional force is growing daily to counter threat of armed groups.

Ukraine

• Ukraine crisis: Deadly bomb blast hits rally in Kharkiv (BBC News) Latest and most deadly of series of bombs over past several weeks.
• Ukraine military says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist (Reuters)

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong ‘radicals’ up ante in democracy push against China (Reuters)
  

China

• Shanghai exchange to open doors to foreign short sellers (Financial Times)

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