Jackie Chan's Luxury Beijing Condos up for Auction in Ownership
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 11 Jackie Chan’s luxury Beijing condos Brazil’s Bolsonaro to undergo surgery up for auction in ownership row for kidney stone among those seized in 2017. Chan and his wife According to an online listing • seen by AFP, the price for the Joan Lin and son two flats in the Chinese capital Jaycee Chan have will now start from 71.9 million lived in the high-end yuan ($10.5 million), with bid- properties since 2007 ding to begin later this month. A virtual tour of the property showed a maze-like space with AFP News a pool table, at least two walk-in wardrobes, a wine fridge and wo luxury Beijing apart- a framed photograph of Chan ments seized from mar- meeting former US president Ttial arts film star Jackie Barack Obama. Chan will be put up for auction The property was also the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for around $10 million due to an scene of a 2014 drug scandal in- ownership dispute, according to volving Chan’s son Jaycee, who AFP News coronavirus pandemic, said his court documents seen by AFP. served six months in a Chinese infection was never serious, Martial arts star Jackie Chan has seen his reputation nosedive in his native Hong The action star, 66, best known Kong due to his pro-Beijing stance prison after he was found to be razilian President Jair thanks to his “athletic past” for hit movies “Rush Hour” and providing a venue for others to BBolsonaro said yesterday and his course of treatment “Police Story”, sparked contro- compound in a prime area of the transfer of the property use drugs and possession of 100 he had been diagnosed with with hydroxychloroquine. versy in 2013 when he joined central Beijing. rights to Chan. grams (3.5 ounces) of marijuana. a kidney stone and would un- He has controversial - China’s top political advisory But court papers outline Another developer, Tenhong The properties are now val- dergo surgery in September to ly pushed the anti-malaria body despite being born in Hong problems including a change in Real Estate, later filed for arbi- ued at more than 100 million remove it. medication as a wonder drug Kong, where his reputation has Yujia’s company name, as well tration with Yujia to settle debts yuan, according to the auction The far-right leader, 65, has for Covid-19, despite stud - taken a beating over his pro-Bei- as tax arrears, which delayed and the two properties were listing. had a series of health issues, ies showing it is ineffective jing stance. including four surgeries stem- against the disease. Chan and his wife Joan Lin ming from an attack in which That has earned him criti- and son Jaycee Chan have lived he was stabbed in the abdomen cism in Brazil, which has the in the high-end properties since during his 2018 presidential second-highest number of 2007. campaign. infections and deaths in the But a legal dispute between “I felt a little pain, so I went pandemic, after the United two real estate firms has result- for a checkup. But I’m fine. It’s States: more than 3.9 million ed in the properties being co- an age thing,” Bolsonaro told and 121,000, respectively. mandeered and put up for sale, CNN Brasil. Bolsonaro was stabbed in despite appeals by the star. He said doctors had per - the stomach by a suspected Chan signed an agreement formed an ultrasound and radical leftist during a cam- with Yujia Real Estate in 2006 to told him the kidney stone was paign rally in September 2018, buy the two units, which cover slightly larger than a bean. just over a month before he more than 1,200 square metres The president’s office did was elected president. (13,000 square feet), according not immediately respond to a The attack forced him to un- to a court judgment published request for further details. dergo four operations on his in July. Bolsonaro is also coming off stomach, the most recent in The actor paid 13 million yuan a bout with Covid-19 that put September 2019. ($1.9 million) -- a 20.6 million him in quarantine for nearly In March, he said he needed yuan discount over the original three weeks in July. to undergo a fifth operation purchase price, in exchange for Security guards stand at the main gate to a luxury apartment building in Beijing where two flats were seized from Hong The president, who has related to the incident, which a celebrity endorsement of the Kong-born actor Jackie Chan in an ownership row repeatedly downplayed the he said “should be the last.” Junk food linked to age-marker in chromosomes: study Short telomeres Not real food are a marker of bio- arlier studies had pointed to a possible link group were more likely to have a family his- logical ageing at the Ewith sugar-sweetened drinks, processed tory of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cellular level, and meats and other foods loaded with saturated abnormal blood fats. the study suggests fats and sugar, but the findings were incon- That also consumed less foods associated clusive. with the Mediterranean diet -- fibre, olive oil, that diet is a factor Ultra-processed foods are industrially man- fruits, vegetable and nuts. in driving the cells to ufactured substances composed of some mix Compared to the group who ate the fewest age faster of oils, fats, sugars, starch and proteins that ultra-processed foods, the other three showed contain little if any whole or natural foods. an increased likelihood -- 29, 40 and 82 per- They often include artificial flavourings, cent, respectively -- of having shortened tel- AFP News colourings, emulsifiers, preservatives and omeres. other additives that increase shelf-life and The findings eople who eat a lot of in - profit margins. were pub- Pdustrially processed junk These same properties, however, lished food are more likely to exhibit also mean that such foods are nu- earlier a change in their chromosomes tritionally poor compared to less this year linked to ageing, according to processed alternatives, the research- in the research presented Tuesday at ers said. peer-re- an online medical conference. Earlier studies have shown strong viewed Three or more servings of so- correlations between ultra-pro- Amer- called “ultra-processed food” cessed foods and hypertension, KNOW WHAT ican per day doubled the odds that obesity, depression, type 2 dia- Journal strands of DNA and proteins betes and some forms of cancer. of Clini- Short telomeres are a marker of biological ageing at the cellular level, and a new called telomeres, found on the These conditions are often Earlier studies have cal Nutri- end of chromosomes, would be study suggests that diet is a factor in driving the cells to age faster age-related in so far as they are tion. shorter compared to people who linked to oxidative stress and in- shown strong corre- rarely consumed such foods, sci- the authors cautioned. telomere is lost. flammation known to influence tel- lations between ul- entists reported at the European Each human cell has 23 pairs That reduction in length omere length. tra-processed foods and International Conference of chromosomes that contain has long been recognised Marti and colleagues looked at and hypertension, on Obesity. our genetic code. as a marker of biological health data for nearly 900 people obesity, depression, Short telomeres are a marker Telomeres do not carry ge - age. aged 55 or older who provided DNA type 2 diabetes and of biological ageing at the cellu- netic information, but are vital Scientists led by professors samples in 2008 and provided de- some forms of can- lar level, and the study suggests for preserving the stability and Maria Bes-Rastrollo and Ame- tailed data about their eating habits cer. (picture that diet is a factor in driving the integrity of chromosomes and, lia Marti, both of the Universi- every two years thereafter. courtesy cells to age faster. by extension, the DNA that all ty of Navarra in Spain, wanted The 645 men and 241 women were of Health While the correlation is the cells in our body relies on to to explore a suspected con - equally divided into four groups, de- 24) strong, however, the causal re- function. nection between the regular pending on their consumption of lationship between eating highly As we get older, our telomeres consumption of highly pro - ultra-processed foods. processed foods and diminished shorten naturally because each cessed junk food and shrinking Those in the high-intake telomeres remains speculative, time a cell divides, part of the telomeres..