KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur High Court has rejected an application by British Queen’s Counsel Jonathan Laidlaw to be admitted to the Bar on Thursday (Jul 21). The dismissal effectively dashed former prime minister Najib Razak’s attempt to bring in Mr Laidlaw to represent him in his final appeal againstContinue Reading
HONG KONG: China’s video games sector revenue declined in the first half of 2022 for the first time since the data was made available 14 years ago, as the world’s biggest video games market continues to reel from Beijing’s tightening oversight. The industry’s combined revenue declined 1.8 per cent toContinue Reading
BEIJING: A Chinese district regulator said it is carrying out inspections of 45 Pizza Hut stores in Beijing after one was accused by the media of food safety breaches. The market regulator of Beijing’s Haidian district said late on Wednesday (Jul 20) that it had visited the branch in questionContinue Reading
SEOUL: South Korea on Thursday (Jul 21) proposed a series of tax cuts for companies, workers and retail investors in stocks to support private-sector led economic growth as President Yoon Suk-yeol had pledged in the election campaign. In his first annual tax code revision, the Yoon administration proposed cutting theContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: On Feb. 2, when Meta Platforms reported Facebook’s first-ever quarterly drop in daily users, its finance chief identified higher mobile data costs as a unique obstacle slowing growth in India, its biggest market. On the same day, the U.S. tech group posted the findings of its own researchContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: On Feb 2, when Meta Platforms reported Facebook’s first-ever quarterly drop in daily users, its finance chief identified higher mobile data costs as a unique obstacle slowing growth in India, its biggest market. On the same day, the US tech group posted the findings of its own researchContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: China’s cybersecurity regulator said on Thursday (Jul 21) it has fined Didi Global Inc 8.026 billion yuan (US$1.19 billion) after a year-long probe found that the ride-hailing giant had violated laws including ones pertaining to data security. Didi had illegally collected several pieces of user information over a seven-yearContinue Reading
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in Thursday (Jul 21) as president of the crisis-hit nation, with plans to form a unity government to manage the turmoil. The 73-year-old veteran politician, who was overwhelmingly elected as head of state in a parliamentary vote Wednesday, took his oathContinue Reading
HONG KONG: A good An, the planet’s oldest male huge panda under individual care, was euthanised on Thursday (Jul 21) at age 35, the equivalent of 105 many years for humans, stated the Hong Kong theme park where he lived. An’s health had proven steady signs of damage over theContinue Reading