TOKYO: Japan’s consumer inflation rate likely picked up in July for a third consecutive month, a Reuters poll of 18 economists showed, keeping the central bank on course to consider another rate hike after lifting short-term rates to 0.25 per cent last month. Other data next week is forecast to […]
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CHIANG MAI: China supports a plan by Myanmar’s junta to hold fresh elections and return the conflict-torn country to a “democratic transition”, Beijing’s foreign minister said on Friday (Aug 16). The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military deposed the government of Aung San Suu Kyi and […]
MANCHESTER: Erik ten Hag will have newcomers Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui available for Friday’s season opener just days after they signed from Bayern Munich, but the manager lamented that his team is not quite ready for the new Premier League campaign. United kick off their season against Fulham […]
Switzerland’s Sonova on Tuesday introduced a hearing aid that utilises real-time artificial intelligence to improve speech clarity from background noise, the first such product in the global market. Along with the hearing aid, named Sphere Infinio, Sonova is launching a new Infinio platform. Sonova had said in May it expected […]
TOKYO: Japan’s SoftBank Group is expected to report a modest first-quarter profit on Wednesday but investors are set to hone in on whether the tech investment giant will either announce a major share buyback or flag its willingness to embark on one. The results come amid much market turmoil, particularly […]
The flagship project under China’s Belt and Road Initiative has run into a lack of sustained investment, which analysts said is holding back its progress. GWADAR, Pakistan: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) was launched to much fanfare almost a decade ago, with US$54 billion worth of infrastructure projects planned. But […]
WILMINGTON: A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. The 54-year-old son of President Joe Biden was convicted on all three of the felony counts stemming from his 2018 purchase of a […]
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday (Jun 4) to advance a largely symbolic bill calling for sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its prosecutor applied for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Hague-based court’s prosecutor has said Netanyahu and Defense Minister […]
BEIJING: China’s services activity in May accelerated at the quickest pace in 10 months while staffing levels expanded for the first time since January, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday (Jan 5), pointing to sustained recovery in the second quarter. The Caixin/S&P Global services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose […]
NEW YORK: A former Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts. Ferras Hamad, a Palestinian-American engineer […]