The Japanese race is a long-standing fixture on the MotoGP circuit TOKYO: The Japanese MotoGP was cancelled over the coronavirus on Monday (Jun 1) as organisers said they would concentrate on holding as many races as possible in Europe this year. The scrapping of the Oct 16-18 race in […]
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TOKYO: Japan’s government will submit to parliament early next week a second extra budget to fund a new US$1.1 trillion stimulus package to cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday (Jun 1). With ruling and opposition parties on board for big spending […]
Sony has delayed hosting a showcase event for its next games console. In a statement it did not directly mention the civil unrest in the US, but alluded to it saying “we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration”, adding it wanted “more important voices to […]
SINGAPORE: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Facebook will launch a nine-month pilot programme to offer new courses aimed at developing local data centre talent. The programme, which starts in August, will offer four specialist certificates and one graduate certificate, said the university and Facebook in a media release on Monday […]
May was the sunniest calendar month on record, and spring was the sunniest spring, the Met Office has said. The UK enjoyed 266 hours of sunshine in May – surpassing the previous record of 265 hours in June 1957. And it is even more extraordinary following a drenching winter, with […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong had no plans to change its currency’s peg to the US dollar and the Asian financial hub has not seen any “obvious” capital outflows after Washington moved to strip the city of its special status in US law, the city’s finance secretary said. Paul Chan said […]
The discovery of a new breeding pair raises hope for the survival of the world’s rarest primate, the Hainan Gibbon. Ravaged by deforestation and poaching, the ape now lives only in a patch of forest on China’s Hainan island. In the 1950s, there were an estimated 2,000 left in the […]
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday (Jun 1) it has begun construction of a new domestic production line for NAND flash memory chips, betting on demand for personal computers and servers as the coronavirus prompts more people to work from home. The world’s largest memory chip maker is […]
NEW DELHI: India has ordered its internet service providers (ISPs) to block file-sharing website WeTransfer at a time when hundreds of millions of people are working from home because of a nationwide lockdown to stop the novel coronavirus. The order, dated May 18, from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which […]
ATLANTA, Georgia: Delta Air Lines Inc and its pilots union said on Sunday (May 31) they are working to avoid furloughs of roughly 2,300 pilots following a reshuffling process meant to match staffing to summer 2021 flying. Delta said this month that it would have more pilots than needed as […]