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Vietnam pushes electric motorbikes as pollution becomes ‘unbearable’
IN VIETNAM’S heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers belching toxic fumes.Trung, 19, is one of a...
Gold steady; all eyes on US jobs data, Fed Chair’s speech
GOLD prices steadied on Wednesday (Dec 4) as markets awaited US jobs data and comments from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell for further insights into the US interest rate...
Mitsubishi Corp lost US$90 million in suspected China metal fraud, say sources
MITSUBISHI Corporation has suffered a loss of more than US$90 million in China after uncovering suspected fraud by one of its copper traders, according to sources familiar with the...
Mitsubishi Corp loses US$90 million in suspected China metal fraud
MITSUBISHI Corporation has suffered a loss of more than US$90 million in China after uncovering suspected fraud by one of its copper traders, according to sources familiar with the...
Netflix Japan subscribers top 10 million with shows garnering attention
NETFLIX’S subscribers passed 10 million in Japan in the first half of this year with the streaming firm’s Japanese-language programming grabbing attention in the growing market.The subscriber base has...
Rakuten starts marketing its third dollar bond offering of 2024
RAKUTEN Group started marketing its third US dollar bond of the year, seeking to take advantage of strong investor appetite for junk rated debt that drove US spreads to...
Larry Fink is making a new generation of billionaires richer than him
AS LARRY Fink drives BlackRock deeper into private markets, he keeps adding new billionaires to the asset-management giant’s roster – and making them all richer than he is in...
South Korea shares fall at the close as political tensions continue; Asia markets mixed
SOUTH Korean shares continued to fall by the close on Wednesday (Dec 4), after the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law overnight. Yoon then lifted the decree...
McDonald’s E coli outbreak tied to fresh onions is over
AN E COLI outbreak that ensnared McDonald’s is over, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday (Dec 3).Fresh, slivered onions at McDonald’s were the...
I got a butt massage by an AI robot in L.A. Here’s how it went
My first meeting with Aescape, the AI-powered massage robot, was benign enough — if a bit eerie. As if HAL had gotten a job in the Valley. I stepped...
