MELBOURNE : Australia head coach Rohan Taylor says Ariarne Titmus is tracking in the right direction ahead of her world championships showdown with Summer McIntosh despite falling well short of snatching back her 400m freestyle world record this week. Titmus qualified for Fukuoka with a dominant 400m win at world […]
Day: June 15, 2023
A group of 17 music publishers in the US has sued Twitter, claiming the platform enabled copyright violations involving nearly 1,700 songs. The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is seeking more than $250m (£197.7m) in damages. In a lawsuit filed at the Federal District Court in Nashville, the NMPA claimed […]
MANILA : China’s Yadea Group Holdings, one of the world’s biggest electric two-wheeled vehicle makers, plans to invest about $1 billion in a battery factory in the Philippines, the country’s investment promotions agency chief said on Thursday. Yadea is one of a several electric vehicle manufacturers looking at the Southeast […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s trade surplus in May narrowed to the smallest in three years amid surging imports, data by the statistics bureau showed on Thursday. The resource-rich country last year saw exports jump to a historic high on rising global commodity prices. The prices of commodities such as coal and palm […]
TOKYO : Japan’s government and central bank will act to stop the yen’s decline if it depreciates to the 145 per U.S. dollar level, more than half of economists polled by Reuters said. Market participants closely watch how the government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) respond to currency moves, […]
BEIJING : China’s market regulator on Thursday announced a five-month campaign that will ensure platform companies optimise their protocols, to protect the rights of consumers and vendors. The State Administration for Market Regulation said it will supervise and guide platform firms to conduct self-examination, and improve their protocols to overcome […]