SEOUL: North Korean state media on Friday (Oct 6) criticised France over the deployment of a patrol aircraft in waters near the peninsula, labelling it “outdated gunboat diplomacy”. The criticism comes after Japan’s foreign ministry announced earlier this week that France will conduct surveillance of illicit maritime activities including ship-to-ship […]
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TAIPEI: Taiwan’s government has opened an investigation into four companies named in a media report as conducting business with firms linked to United States-sanctioned Huawei in China, and is considering tighter rules on key technologies. Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said the ministry would be looking into whether the firms’ […]
British media regulator Ofcom on Thursday asked the country’s antitrust regulator to investigate U.S. tech giants Amazon and Microsoft’s dominance of the UK cloud market. Ofcom said its study identified features that make it more difficult for UK businesses to switch to, and use multiple cloud suppliers. “The CMA (Competition […]
BRUSSELS: This year is on track to become the hottest year on record, with the global mean temperature to date this year 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than average, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said today. The global temperature for January-September is also 1.4°C higher than the preindustrial average […]
WASHINGTON: A 45-day stopgap measure passed by the US Congress to avert a government shutdown has left potential funding shortfalls for strategic Pacific island states, which analysts and former officials say makes the US allies economically vulnerable and possibly more receptive to Chinese approaches. The Biden administration had hoped to […]
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo today emphasised the importance of military hardware modernisation but warned any spending should be done wisely as the state budget was limited. The archipelago nation of 270 million people, South-east Asia’s biggest economy, is seeking to modernise its military but has lagged its regional peers […]
AHMEDABAD, India : Australia’s aura as the all-conquering juggernauts of one-day cricket is long gone but captain Pat Cummins is optimistic that the abundance of all-rounders at his disposal in India will help them add another trophy to their collection. Australia picked up their first 50-overs title in 1987 before […]
Indonesian contestant Putri Ariani has placed fourth in the latest season of America’s Got Talent (AGT). The 17-year-old singer, who is blind, performed Elton John’s Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me on a grand piano for the finale, which took place on Tuesday (Sep 26) night in the […]
SYDNEY: Australia said today it would retire its fleet of Taipan helicopters earlier than expected after a crash off its east coast in July during a joint military exercise with the United States killed four Australian aircrew. The Taipan fleet will not return to flying operations before the previously planned […]
SINGAPORE : China’s international trade council has formally asked the United States to “carefully consider” rules that ban or restrict U.S. investments in China’s tech sector, state television reported on Friday. U.S. President Joe Biden signed the executive order last month which prohibits or restricts investments in Chinese entities involved […]