LONDON/SINGAPORE : Russia remained China’s second-largest source of crude oil in 2022, following repeat top supplier Saudi Arabia, as Chinese refiners snapped up low-cost Russian barrels while Western countries shunned them after the Ukraine crisis. China’s crude oil imports from Russia jumped 8 per cent in 2022 from a year […]
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MELBOURNE : Order of play on the main showcourts on the sixth day of the Australian Open on Saturday (prefix number denotes seeding): * Day session: From 11 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) * Night session: From 7 p.m. local time (0800 GMT) ROD LAVER ARENA Varvara Gracheva (Russia) v […]
BENGALURU: India’s ShareChat, a short video-sharing platform backed by Google and Temasek, said on Monday it let go of around 20 per cent of its employees, as startups face increasing pressure from investors to cut costs. “There is a growing market consensus that the current global economic downturn would be […]
MELBOURNE : Jessica Pegula says she is happy to keep flying under the radar at the Australian Open after the American breezed into the second round on Monday with a 6-0 6-1 win over Romania’s Jaqueline Cristian. World number three Pegula, 28, attracted more media attention earlier this month due […]
KYIV: Kyiv can expect more deliveries of heavy weapons from Western countries soon, NATO said on Sunday (Jan 15), as President Vladimir Putin praised his forces after their claimed capture of a Ukraine town. The death toll from Russian missile strike on a tower block in the eastern city of […]
SHANGHAI : Investors should avoid Chinese currency risk and adapt to higher foreign exchange volatility, three state financial newspapers in Shanghai and Beijing said in front-page commentaries on Tuesday after more than a week of strong gains by the yuan. The currency may have strengthened, but this year it would […]
Astronomers recently detected a massive explosion on the far side of the sun, which likely spat out one of the most powerful flares the sun can produce. A massive explosion on the far side of the sun recently spat out an X-class flare — one of the most powerful solar […]
After filmmaker Bryan Singer was accused of sexual misconduct by several men a few years ago, the legacy of the X-Men franchise felt tainted in some ways. Hollywood star Hugh Jackman‘s X-Men movie was in many ways the film that re-introduced the superhero genre and pushed it to become what […]
SHANGHAI: Tesla cut car prices in China for the second time in less than three months on Friday (Jan 6), deepening its discounts in the world’s largest auto market as competition picks up and the demand outlook darkens. The latest cut, along with a reduction in October as well as […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan has again offered to provide China with assistance to help it deal with a surge in Covid-19 cases but Chinese authorities have not yet responded, official Taiwan media reported late on Thursday. China scrapped its stringent Covid controls last month after protests against them, abandoning a policy that […]