China, which blocks all western social media on the mainland, mocked the United States government for trying to stop young people from using TikTok, the most downloaded app during the pandemic. The White House issued a 30-days notice to government organizations on Monday to make sure that TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, is removed from all federal […]Continue Reading
LONDON: Two Labrador dogs, which have been trained by British police, are to be flown to Thailand to help crack down on the smuggling of critically endangered pangolins, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said on Tuesday.Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday (Feb 28) warned of an impending heatwave in many parts of the country over the next couple of months, urging states to be well prepared to manage any surge in “heat-related illnesses”. Weather office India Meteorological Department (IMD) said there was an “enhanced probability” ofContinue Reading
TOKYO: The head of an upscale Japanese inn apologised on Tuesday (Feb 28) for only changing the water in its hot-spring bath every six months, allowing bacteria to breed 3,700 times over the standard limit. Local ordinances stipulate a weekly replacement of the water in which guests traditionally soak nakedContinue Reading
The cabinet has approved a new round of registrations for state welfare cards with 14.6 million low-income earners meeting the criteria and eligible for benefits.Continue Reading
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida used a policy speech at the opening of the 2023 session of Japan’s parliament, the National Diet, to declare that Japan was “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions” due to the country’s population crisis. The country’s median age is 49 — the second highest in the […]Continue Reading
Xi has spoken to Putin several times since the war began, but has not done so with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Lukashenko is a close ally of Putin and has backed Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Belarus shares a border with both Ukraine and Russia, but is financially and politicallyContinue Reading
MANILA: A Philippine fuel tanker partially sank in the country’s waters on Tuesday (Feb 28), authorities said, as they tried to contain a diesel spill stretching several kilometres. The Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 litres of industrial fuel oil from Bataan province, near the capital Manila, to the central provinceContinue Reading
About a decade ago, the world’s biggest economies agreed to crack down on multinational corporations’ abusive use of tax havens. This resulted in a 15-point action plan that aimed to curb practices that shielded a large chunk of corporate profits from tax authorities. But, according to our estimates, it hasn’t worked. Instead of reining in […]Continue Reading
It’s nearly a decade since the term “fourth industrial revolution” was coined, yet many people won’t have heard of it, or know what it refers to. Also known as industry 4.0, it’s a way of describing how connecting together different advanced technologies could transform how we make things. An example of this could be putting […]Continue Reading