China should remain neutral if North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday, sounding a warning for Pyongyang over its plans to fire missiles near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. The comments from the influential Global Times came after U.S. President Donald Trump stepped up […]
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EUROPEAN markets have started the day with losses of 1% or so, following a 2% decline in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and the 1% loss in the S&P 500 index on Thursday. The Vix, a much used measure of market fear, jumped to 16, its highest level since the Presidential election. These are significant […]
Read moreThe hacker who stole TV show scripts from HBO has leaked an email showing a company executive offering $250,000 as a “bounty payment” to the cyber-thief, according to two news outlets. Last week, details of a data breach at HBO came to light. Scripts from shows such as “Game of Thrones” were leaked online ahead […]
Read moreFrom hacking agriculture to developing inexpensive tools for tuberculosis patients, Microsoft researchers in India are trying to solve myriad social problems in the subcontinent. India is a research and development hot-bed for large tech companies like Microsoft for several reasons: It has an increasingly middle-class young population and it has significant challenges present in society […]
Read moreSouth Korea’s stocks rallied to record highs last month and analysts turned increasingly bullish, but that may have just gotten derailed by the rising spat between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The benchmark Kospi index climbed to a record intraday high of 2453.17 in late July, which at that point was […]
Read moreRecreational vehicles (RVs), caravans, campervans or motorhomes – whatever size they are and whatever you call them, they are back and picking up a new generation of eager fans just wanting to hit the road. Europe has seen a resurgence in leisure vehicle purchases, with consumers once again opting for these “big-ticket items” after the […]
Read moreGlobal markets have finally begun to catch up with the worry that North Korea has aroused in people around the world, but two targets of communist dictatorship remain relatively unfazed. South Korea, the country closest to Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal, and Guam, the U.S. island that dictator Kim Jong Un enjoys threatening directly, are both monitoring […]
Read moreChinese internet giants Tencent, Baidu and Sina Weibo are under investigation for potential cyber-security violations, the mainland’s office for cyberspace administration said on Friday. According to earlier investigations, the social media platforms of these companies — WeChat, Tieba and Weibo respectively — have users spreading “violent, terror, false, rumored, and pornographic information that damages national […]
Read moreSlowing economic growth in China is spurring its top leadership to expand the country’s influence beyond its shores — a development that was most recently on display at an annual forum of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Over the weekend meeting, foreign ministers grappled with how to refer to differences in the South China […]
Read moreSingapore’s economic growth accelerated in the second quarter, with its gross domestic product rising 2.9 percent on-year, beating a Reuters poll forecast for 2.6 percent growth. Quarter-on-quarter, the economy expanded by 2.2 percent on a seasonally-adjusted annualized basis, compared with a Reuters poll forecast for just 0.5 percent growth. Manufacturing was a key driver of […]
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