MELBOURNE : Australia head coach Rohan Taylor says Ariarne Titmus is tracking in the right direction ahead of her world championships showdown with Summer McIntosh despite falling well short of snatching back her 400m freestyle world record this week. Titmus qualified for Fukuoka with a dominant 400m win at world […]
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MANILA : China’s Yadea Group Holdings, one of the world’s biggest electric two-wheeled vehicle makers, plans to invest about $1 billion in a battery factory in the Philippines, the country’s investment promotions agency chief said on Thursday. Yadea is one of a several electric vehicle manufacturers looking at the Southeast […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s trade surplus in May narrowed to the smallest in three years amid surging imports, data by the statistics bureau showed on Thursday. The resource-rich country last year saw exports jump to a historic high on rising global commodity prices. The prices of commodities such as coal and palm […]
TOKYO : Japan’s government and central bank will act to stop the yen’s decline if it depreciates to the 145 per U.S. dollar level, more than half of economists polled by Reuters said. Market participants closely watch how the government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) respond to currency moves, […]
BEIJING : China’s market regulator on Thursday announced a five-month campaign that will ensure platform companies optimise their protocols, to protect the rights of consumers and vendors. The State Administration for Market Regulation said it will supervise and guide platform firms to conduct self-examination, and improve their protocols to overcome […]
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today the government would block the construction of a new Russian embassy near the country’s parliament, citing threats to national security. Russia currently holds the lease for a parcel of land near Parliament House in Australia’s capital Canberra, where it had planned to […]
MELBOURNE : Australia has rolled out a series of grants to critical minerals companies hoping to speed up development of a battery chemical industry and will soon announce details of a national industry strategy, its resources minister said on Thursday. Australia is pushing to reap more value from its mineral […]
US reporter Carl Bernstein has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is a “huge force” which poses challenges for the future of journalism. Bernstein and his colleague Bob Woodward were the reporters at the heart of the Watergate scandal and the fall of President Nixon in 1972. AI’s rapid take-up has […]
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month. One person has been killed and two more wounded in a missile strike on Odesa, a Black Sea port city in the south west, officials say. Blasts were also heard in central regions […]
NEW YORK : Bankers are beefing up risk management, monitoring and emergency procedures around the use of social media after an internet-fueled run toppled Silicon Valley Bank two months ago and sparked turmoil in the industry. In board rooms across the United States, executives are devising programs and plans to […]