Benjamin Chasteen

HONG KONG–Epoch Times photographer Benjamin Chasteen has been documenting the Umbrella Movement through his camera lens, and the recent spate of Hong Kong police action has inspired him to collect his thoughts in prose. Here is Ben’s take on the police clearing of Lung Wo Road on Oct. 16: After pro-democracy protesters successfully shutdown Lung Wo Road (one of the major roadways in Hong Kong) on the evening of Oct.

As we have been in the spirit of giving with the holidays and have just began a new year full of hopes and dreams, I sat with one of the most preeminent philanthropists on the New York society scene, Jean Shafiroff. Jean Shafiroff is widely respected in the world of New York philanthropy. She recently hosted a holiday luncheon to benefit The New York City Mission Society at the restaurant Omar at Vaucluse, and took the time to respond to our questions. Jean Shafiroff.

Mesmerizing drone footage has emerged of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, highlighting the lake’s pretty contrast of pink and blue from a bird’s eye perspective. The sparkling rose-colored waterscape is divided from its glassy transparent jade-green and blue section by the Union Pacific Railroad 20-mile-long causeway.