MANILA: Filipinos roared in joy and relief as their men’s basketball team ended decades of heartbreak in winning their first Asian Games gold medal in 61 years. Many in the basketball-crazy nation of 110 million people were glued to television and mobile phone screens as the “Gilas”, Tagalog for panache,
LOS ANGELES: Tens of thousands of health care workers in the United States walked off the job on Wednesday, beginning one of the sector’s largest strikes in recent history, as America’s year of labour discontent rolled on. The walkout of more than 75,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente, the country’s largest
TOKYO: Japan began releasing the second batch of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, an incremental step in a decadeslong process that has drawn strong condemnation from China. The discharge, a small portion of the 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater built up since a tsunami struck the
BANGKOK: Thai police on Thursday arrested two men accused of selling a gun to a 14-year-old suspected of carrying out a shooting attack at a Bangkok mall that left two people dead. The teenager has been charged with murder over Tuesday’s attack at the Siam Paragon mall, which police say
WASHINGTON: US manufacturing activity contracted in September by the least since late 2022, beating analyst expectations despite weakness in new orders, survey data showed Monday. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing index came in better than anticipated at 49 per cent last month, up from 47.6 per cent in
BERLIN: The crisis-hit German toy company behind Playmobil, the small plastic figures loved by children the world over, said on Monday that it was cutting 17 per cent of its workforce. The Horst Brandstaetter Group, named after its founder, plans to slash nearly 700 positions worldwide by 2025, 369 of
PARIS: When Indian entrepreneur Awais Ahmed founded his satellite start-up in Bangalore in 2019, his country was still a year away from opening the space industry to the private sector. “When we started, there was absolutely no support, no momentum,” said Ahmed, who was 21 when he founded Pixxel, a
THE post-retirement careers of the biggest sports stars can be fascinating to watch — Viagra ads, property ventures, crypto projects — but one option is becoming a sure-fire winner: put your face on the cover of a video game. And death is no barrier for this particular career, with two
IT wasn’t so long ago that NFTs were being heralded as a mini-revolution in the worlds of art and finance and were regularly being snapped up for record sums. But the market for NFTs — blockchain-backed certificates of digital ownership — has been steadily plummeting in recent months. So much
SYDNEY: Out-of-control bushfires forced hundreds of residents and tourists to flee several towns in rural southeast Australia Sunday, as the country sweltered in extreme temperatures. People in four towns in Victoria state’s Gippsland, a region of national parks and wineries popular with tourists, were told to evacuate immediately while residents
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