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US still in pursuit of third oil tanker in Venezuela blockade
THE US is still in pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela, according to a US official, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Bella...
James Ransone: ‘Wire Actor’ Dies by Suicide Aged 46 after Suffering from Mental Health Issues for Years
James Ransone, the actor best known for playing Ziggy Sobotka on "The Wire" and appearing in several other HBO productions, has died at the age of 46. Ransone died...
Claudio Neves Valente: Brown University Shooter Was a Brilliant Physicist Who Had Grudge Against MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro for 25 Years
The man who allegedly killed two Brown University students and an MIT physicist during a days-long shooting rampage was driven by a decades-old grudge over his own stalled scientific...
San Francisco Plunges into Darkness after Power Outage Impacts 130K Homes and Brings Self-Driving Cars to a Halt in Middle of Streets
San Francisco was thrown into complete darkness on Saturday night after a major power outage knocked out electricity across nearly 30 percent of the city, bringing essential services, including...
Vietnam on Track for Record Tourism Year with Arrivals Nearing 21 Million
Vietnam is on track to welcome a record 21 million foreign visitors this year, cementing its position as Southeast Asia's fastest-growing tourism market, according to its Ministry of Culture,...
Bilateral Trade Between Vietnam and Singapore Hits New Peak of S$36B in 11 Months
Trade between Vietnam and Singapore hit a record high in the first 11 months of the year, reaching S$36 billion (US$27.8 billion) and marking a 25.7% increase from the...
AI model developer MiniMax passes Hong Kong stock exchange listing hearing
CHINESE artificial intelligence (AI) startup MiniMax has passed a Hong Kong stock exchange listing hearing, according to a stock exchange filing on Sunday (Dec 21), with sources having earlier...
Why investors are betting on nuclear fusion even as it remains elusive
Interest in fusion has been further fuelled by the proliferation of data centres, as tech firm hunt for sources to power their cloud computing and AI operationsNUCLEAR fusion has...
Fed’s Hammack signals holding rates steady for months
FEDERAL Reserve Bank of Cleveland president Beth Hammack said she saw no need to change US interest rates for months ahead after the central bank cut borrowing costs at...
Bridgewater expands equity ownership for employees after blowout year
[NEW YORK] Hedge fund Bridgewater Associates plans to expand its employee ownership initiative next year, which will see more than 60 per cent of staff own equity in the...
SoftBank races to fulfil US$22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end: sources
[NEW YORK/TOKYO/SAN FRANCISCO] SoftBank Group is racing to close a US$22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end through an array of cash-raising schemes, including a sale of some...
Dozens of Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Files that Included Troves of Embarrassing Photos Vanish from Justice Department Website
More than a dozen files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have mysteriously vanished from the Justice Department's website just a day after the agency made public a...