REUTERS: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says he cannot dwell on Wednesday’s 3-0 defeat at Manchester City as he has to focus on getting his starting lineup ready for their next Premier League game on Saturday after seeing two players injured and one sent off. Midfielder Granit Xhaka picked up a […]
Month: June 2020
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (Jun 17) the United States would not close businesses again as several states reported rising numbers of new coronavirus infections. “We won’t be closing the country again. We won’t have to do that,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel. Trump’s […]
MANCHESTER: Manchester City extended Liverpool’s wait to win a first league title in 30 years as Pep Guardiola’s men beat 10-man Arsenal 3-0 at an empty Etihad to secure the first win of the Premier League’s restart on Wednesday (Jun 17). Both sets of players came together before kick-off to […]
KidZania Singapore is closing after four years on Sentosa Island. SINGAPORE: Indoor family attraction KidZania Singapore will close its doors permanently after four years, laying off 103 employees, the company said on Wednesday (Jun 17). KidZania, which opened in April 2016 on Sentosa Island, said it has been a […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan will from the start of next week ease border controls put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and will allow in business travellers from some lower-risk countries, though they will have to be tested and quarantined. Taiwan has never gone into total lockdown and life […]
BEIJING/HONG KONG: Beijing-based ByteDance, the privately owned operator of short video app TikTok, booked around 40 billion yuan (US$5.64 billion) in revenue for the January-March quarter, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The figure represents growth of more than 130 per cent compared with the same period a […]
NEW DELHI: At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a “violent face-off” with Chinese forces along the disputed Himalayan frontier, the Indian army said on Tuesday (Jun 16), in the deadliest clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours for more than four decades. Both sides blamed each other for Monday’s clash […]
NEW DELHI: India impatiently awaited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response on Wednesday (Jun 17) to the death of at least 20 soldiers in a border clash with Chinese troops as the country’s media vented its fury and political rivals goaded Modi over his silence. China’s foreign ministry confirmed there had […]
NEW DELHI: Indian newspapers, which just a few months ago had defied the global trend by gaining circulation, are now buckling under the weight of coronavirus losses that have killed some off and critically wounded other big names. Newspapers have remained a mainstay in the country of 1.3 billion people […]
FILE PHOTO: Men wearing face masks speak in front of an information counter at Beijing Capital International Airport as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China March 16, 2020. BEIJING: Scores of flights to and from Beijing were cancelled, schools shut and […]