TOKYO: Japan is engaged in dialogue with South Korea on export controls, the Japanese trade minister said on Tuesday (Jun 2), declining to elaborate on Seoul’s request for Tokyo to remove restrictions on exports of technological materials. South Korea had asked Japan to clarify its stance on the export controls […]
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LOS ANGELES: Retired ring great Floyd Mayweather will pay for the funeral services for George Floyd, Mayweather Promotions chief executive Leonard Ellerbe told ESPN on Monday (Jun 1). George Floyd died last week after a Minneapolis policeman knelt on the 46-year-old man’s neck for almost nine minutes. Floyd, who was […]
WASHINGTON: Global smartphone sales saw their worst-ever slump in the first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic hit consumer spending, a market tracker said Monday (Jun 1). The Gartner survey found a 20.5 per cent drop in the first three months of the year. The plunge came amid heightened economic uncertainty […]
LONDON: Global sport is facing the “mother of all wake-up calls” as it emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, with uncertainty over what the landscape for participants and sponsors will look like. Former head of Olympic marketing Michael Payne believes that although “it will be very painful pulling through it”, sport […]
LOS ANGELES: San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich has called out President Donald Trump for a lack of leadership in the face of nationwide unrest set off by the killing of unarmed African American George Floyd last week. Popovich, a longtime critic of Trump, spoke Sunday to weekly magazine The […]
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks finished higher on Monday (Jun 1), shrugging off unrest in many cities following anti-racism protests and worsening US-China tensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 91.91 points (0.36 per cent) to 25,475.02. The broad-based S&P 500 climbed 11.42 points (0.38 per cent) to 3,055.73, while […]
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to regulate social media companies’ content decisions may face an uphill battle from regulators who have previously said they cannot oversee the conduct of Internet firms. Trump said last week that he wants to “remove or change” a provision of a law that shields […]
MENLO PARK, California: Facebook and Snapchat developer Snap became the latest US companies condemning racial inequality in the United States as violent protests flared up across major cities over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. The two […]
Ryanair Holdings Plc and Chief Executive Michael O’Leary failed to persuade a U.S. judge to dismiss a securities fraud lawsuit accusing Europe’s largest budget airline of defrauding them by downplaying its willingness to recognize labor unions. NEW YORK: Ryanair Holdings Plc and Chief Executive Michael O’Leary failed to persuade a […]
LONDON: Formula One drivers followed Lewis Hamilton’s lead on Monday after the six-times world champion criticised his sport’s silence over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a white U.S. police officer knelt on his neck. The death in Minneapolis triggered a wave of outrage […]