Within hours of the Hong Kong police arresting another of its employee for allegedly breaching the controversial national security law, the embattled Hong Kong based pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily said that it will stop all its operations starting on Wednesday… Read More ›
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UNESCO Recommends Putting Great Barrier Reef On The ‘In Danger’ List
According to a recommendation from officials of the United Nations, it is imperative that the Great Barrier Reef needs to put on to a list of world heritage sites that are classified as to be “in danger”, while also prodding… Read More ›
Combined-Antibody Therapies Found Effective Against Covid-19 Variants, Says New Study
The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported on Monday that a cocktail of two types of antibodies used as a therapy for Covid-19 was found to be working well against a wide range of variants of the… Read More ›
Japan Growth Exports In May Sharpest In 41 Years
Japan, the third largest economy of the world managed to offset sluggish domestic demand by a rise in its exports in May which grew at the fastest pace in the month since 1980, along with a key gauge of capital… Read More ›
Hackers Breach McDonald’s Data In South Korea, Taiwan And US
Some customer and employee information of McDonald’s Corp’s business in South Korea and Taiwan was exposed to hackers in a data breach, the company said on Friday. This made the largest burger chain of the world the latest global firm… Read More ›
Toyota Says Wants To Achieve Carbon Neutrality In Its Global Factories By 2035
The Japanese auto major Toyota Motor Corp will set the aim to achieve carbon neutrality in all its factories throughout the world by 2035, said a senior executive on Friday as the company apparently is advancing the goal by 15… Read More ›
Volkswagen, Ford Will Close Down Their Auto Finance Business In India: Reports
Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co plan to close down their auto financing business units in India and the companies will stop providing new credit to car buyers and dealers in the market, said reports quoting information from sources with… Read More ›
US Super-Rich Allegedly Pay Very Little Taxes, Claims Leaked Documents
A new website has published leaked data that shows claimed details of how little income tax is actually paid by billionaires of the United States. The tax returns of some of the richest people of the world, including Jeff Bezos,… Read More ›
Alibaba Launches Slew Of Cloud Products, Including Livestream Shopping To Rival Amazon
With the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba planning to expand its reach and business across Asia, a range of new cloud computing products was launched by it recently. The company has been aggressively boosting its presence outside of China in the… Read More ›
Nvidia Files Application With Chinese Regulators For Approval Of $40bn Arm Deal
Eight months ago the acquisition of United Kingdom based chip designer Arm by the United States based Nvidia worth a $40bn deal was announced while the US firm has now submitted an application to Chinese competition regulators for reviewing of… Read More ›