LONDON: The Premier League has admitted that VAR got penalty decisions wrong in all three matches on Thursday (Jul 9), as frustration mounts over the use of the technology in the English top-flight. Manchester United were given a controversial helping hand by the video assistant referee in their 3-0 win […]
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VIENNA: The illegal global trade in ivory has shrunk while the trafficking of pangolins has soared, a UN report on wildlife crime based on four years’ data said on Friday (Jul 10). National bans on selling ivory, particularly China’s in 2017, appear to have helped further erode ivory trafficking after […]
LONDON: The International Energy Agency (IEA) bumped up its 2020 oil demand forecast on Friday (Jul 10) but warned that the spread of COVID-19 posed a risk to the outlook. The Paris-based IEA raised its forecast to 92.1 million barrels per day (bpd), up 400,000 bpd from its outlook last […]
MUMBAI: India reported a record 26,506 new coronavirus cases on Friday (Jul 10) as authorities reimposed lockdowns in its most populous state and in an industrial hub, home to automakers, drug factories and brewers. The new cases pushed India’s tally to nearly 800,000 cases, the world’s third-biggest outbreak, behind only […]
BEIRUT: Samira Hanna spends a lot of time in the dark. Her old Beirut apartment gets less than two hours of electricity a day, and with Lebanon’s economy in ruins, the grandmother can barely afford candles, let alone a private generator. “I sit outside on the stairs for some light,” […]
TOKYO: Minimalist lifestyle brand Muji’s US subsidiary has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, its Japanese owner Ryohin Keikaku said on Friday (Jul 10), joining the list of casualties from the coronavirus pandemic. Ryohin Keikaku said Muji aims to close unprofitable stores and renegotiate rents in the United States, where […]
SHANGHAI: Four cities along China’s Yangtze river have declared top-level flood warnings over the past two days after torrential rain triggered landslides and inundated roads and farmland, with parts of the river threatening to burst its banks. The “red alerts” in Xianning and Jingzhou in Hubei province and Nanchang and […]
HANOI: The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted about 31 million workers in Vietnam, with 900,000 out of work and nearly 18 million people receiving less income than before, a government agency said on Friday (Jul 10). If solutions to drive business activity were not immediately implemented, […]
NEW DELHI: When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. Today the Indian student is leading a campaign against whitening creams as global anti-racism protests highlight the obsession with fair complexions for many in Asia. The campaign achieved its first victory when cosmetics giant […]
BANGKOK: US Army Chief of Staff General James McConville met with Thailand’s prime minister and its army chief on Friday (Jul 10), in the first high-level visit by a foreign delegation to Thailand since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted international travel. McConville met with Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and also Thai […]