Good morning. Beijing is advancing its technological ambitions by pulling foreign innovation inward and exporting its own systems of digital control abroad. That’s in focus today, along with a look at Canada’s race to find new (trade) friends. Up first In the news Mining: Vancouver’s Teck Resources Ltd. and London’s Anglo American PLC have agreed…
TOKYO—Among the questions facing ruling-party members who will choose Japan’s likely next leader is who will get along best with President Trump. PREMIUM Sanae Takaichi is viewed as pro-U.S. and hawkish on China. Would it be Sanae Takaichi, a conservative and adherent of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s expansive economic policies? Or Shinjiro Koizumi, a…
The Xiaomi 15T and Xiaomi 15T Pro smartphones will be announced on 24 September, it’s been confirmed, and it might just have a Pixel 10-rivalling camera feature. The company has taken to X (formerly Twitter) to announce the Xiaomi 15T Series launch on 24 September. It’s to take place in Munich, right in the middle…
This holds lessons for patient investors too: today’s billion-dollar write-off may be tomorrow’s trillion-dollar business [SINGAPORE] In June 2009, a bespectacled senior vice-president at Microsoft launched Bing, the Redmond company’s answer to Google’s popular search engine. His pitch was simple: search engines were broken, and Bing would fix that with an organised experience that delivered…
(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Tuesday after the major indexes posted near-record closing highs in the previous session and investors remained cautious ahead of an impending employment rate revision. A preliminary estimate of the nonfarm payrolls benchmark published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is due at 10 a.m. ET, with economists…
A school bus carrying an Oklahoma City-area softball team crashed Monday evening, leaving several people severely hurt, officials said. Kevin Sims, superintendent of schools in Minco, Oklahoma, said in a statement on Facebook that it was “a serious accident west of Minco. Multiple individuals on the bus were severely injured. We will be closing school…
Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features The phrase “useful idiots” is often attributed to Lenin, though the provenance is uncertain. In the Cold War, it described Westerners who, knowingly or not, advanced Soviet interests while imagining themselves independent actors. The insult…
JennyFax, a Japanese fashion brand, is making headlines for turning women’s underwear into expensive hair accessories. Is this a fashion trend you could jump on? Basically, the hair accessories are made up of a pair of women’s panties with a hair clip glued to them. It’s that simple. Wearing underwear on your head is a…
Kenan Yildiz, whose breakthrough season earned him praise from plaudits and interest from Premier League clubs, has yet to sign a new Juventus contract but it could happen soon. His electrifying performances for the Bianconeri last term have earned him a nomination for the Kopa Trophy Ballon d’Or award. Yildiz’s representative, super agent Jorge Mendes,…
Taking Stock: Nifty closes above 24,850, Sensex gains 314 pts; IT stocks shine More than 130 stocks touched their 52-week highs on the BSE, including Cummins India, Maharashtra Scooters, Eicher Motors, Muthoot Finance, Aditya Birla Capital, Maruti Suzuki, Bosch, M&M, Endurance Technnologies, Manappuram Finance, among others. Source link