KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Poland would help form a coalition of Western powers to supply warplanes to Kyiv, as his fighters continued to defend their eastern bastion of Bakhmut in the face of relentless Russian assaults. During a visit to Warsaw on Wednesday (Apr 5), Zelenskyy said Poland […]
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TOKYO: Atsushi Ikeda loves his car so much that he founded a club for Tesla owners, but his embrace of an electric vehicle makes him something of an outlier in Japan. As markets from China to the United States race to put more EVs on their roads, the pedal is […]
SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE : Morgan Stanley said on Thursday it looks forward to setting up a futures company in China after the country’s securities regulator accepted its application. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) accepted Morgan Stanley’s application to open up a futures business in the world’s second-largest economy on Monday, according to […]
China says a meeting between US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will further damage Sino-US relations. BEIJING: China warned US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday (Apr 4) not to “repeat disastrous past mistakes” and meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, saying it would not help regional […]
SYDNEY: Australia on Tuesday (Apr 4) announced a ban on TikTok from all federal government-owned devices over security concerns, becoming the latest US-allied country to take action against the Chinese-owned video app. The ban underscores growing worries that China’s government could use the Beijing-based company, owned by ByteDance to harvest […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong today “firmly rejected” findings in a new US government report that said US interests had been threatened and that Beijing continued to “undermine” the rule of law and freedoms in the territory under a national security crackdown. The US’ 2023 Hong Kong Policy Act Report, published […]
BEIJING: China threatened to retaliate on Wednesday (Mar 29) if United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy meets Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her planned transit of the US next month, saying that any such move would be a “provocation”. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has […]
Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, they said in an open letter, citing potential risks to society and humanity. The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute and […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban after six people, including three children, were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee yesterday, the White House said. “We have to do more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart,” Biden said […]
WACO, Texas: Donald Trump used his first election rally in Waco, Texas, to cast the 2024 presidential vote in apocalyptic terms, slam his leading Republican rival Ron DeSantis and rail against prosecutors pursuing him with criminal investigations he likened to a “Stalinist Russia horror show.” Speaking to several thousand of […]