BEIJING: Orders for infrastructure materials and equipment have helped industrial output recover faster in China than most places emerging from COVID-19 lockdowns, but further expansion will be hard to attain without stronger broad-based demand and exports. Prices of copper and steel have surged and share prices for Chinese blue chips […]
Year: 2020
REUTERS: Chelsea manager Frank Lampard believes Christian Pulisic has taken his game to another level after the forward scored in Tuesday’s (Jul 7) 3-2 Premier League victory at Crystal Palace. The 21-year-old, who became the most expensive American soccer player when he joined Chelsea in January 2019 for €64 million […]
GENEVA: Six candidates are vying to become the next head of the World Trade Organization – an institution which faced mammoth challenges even before the pandemic-driven global economic crisis struck. The window to enter the race slams shut on Wednesday (Jul 8), in a speeded-up contest to replace the outgoing […]
LONDON: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah plans to torment England with the googly and fancies a century against them with the bat in the three-test series in August, the 34-year-old has said. Yasir became the fastest bowler to claim 200 test wickets in late 2018 but has not been able to […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s footballers’ union lashed out on Wednesday (Jul 8) at “unacceptable” chaos after three Melbourne-based A-League teams were prevented from leaving Victoria for a second time with borders shutting as coronavirus cases surge. The top flight A-League is due to resume next week but Melbourne City, Melbourne Victory and […]
SYDNEY: Outspoken Australian Nick Kyrgios questioned Dominic Thiem’s intellect Wednesday (Jul 8) after the world number three told him to stop criticising fellow tennis stars Alexander Zverev and Novak Djokovic for taking risks with the coronavirus. Kyrgios said Thiem wasn’t on the same “intellectual level” after the Austrian called his […]
MELBOURNE: Australia’s double world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin drowned while spear fishing off a Gold Coast beach on Wednesday (Jul 8), plunging the country’s winter sports community into mourning. Pullin, Australia’s flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, was found by a snorkeller on an artificial reef just before […]
LONDON: Manchester United have spent more than £1 billion ($1.2 billion) on new players over the past nine years but the Red Devils latest revival owes much to a home-grown superstar in 18-year-old academy graduate Mason Greenwood. The young forward was the star of the show as United scored five […]
LONDON: Britain’s National Gallery reopens on Wednesday (Jul 8), with masks recommended and social distancing and advance booking mandatory, as the country continues to emerge from three months of coronavirus lockdown. The central London venue is the first major art museum in the British capital to open its doors after […]
HONG KONG: China opened a new office on Wednesday (Jul 8) for its intelligence agents to operate openly in Hong Kong for the first time under a tough new security law, in a public display of its tightening control over the finance hub. The new base is located in a […]