MUZAFFARPUR (India): Five-year-old Soni Khatun was playing in the midday sun last week when she began to vomit and lose feeling in her hands. Her mother, a poor labourer living in rural India, borrowed money to take her to hospital. Five hours later, Soni was dead, one of more than
NEW YORK: Apple Inc, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc, Dollar Tree Inc and Fitbit Inc have joined other companies in filing letters of opposition to a Trump administration plan for more US tariffs on Chinese goods, including iPhones, MacBooks, and single-serve coffee brewers. The United States and China are resuming talks
NEW DELHI: At least 21 people were killed when a fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in the city of Surat in India’s western state of Gujarat on Friday. Television footage broadcast by private channel NDTV showed people jumping off the top floor of the Takshashila building or trying to escape by
HONG KONG: Huawei Technologies’ chip arm HiSilicon said yesterday it has long been prepared for the “extreme scenario” that it could be banned from purchasing US chips and technology, and is able to ensure steady supply of most products. HiSilicon, which mainly designs chips for Huawei equipment, made the comments
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: The Trump administration on Thursday officially added China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist, immediately enacting restrictions that will make it extremely difficult for the telecom giant to do business with US companies. The Commerce Department issued a rule, promised on Wednesday, putting Huawei and 68
NEW YORK:Walmart Inc said on Thursday that prices for shoppers will rise due to higher tariffs on goods from China as the world’s largest retailer reported its best comparable sales growth for the first quarter in nine years. Bentonville, Arkansas-based Walmart called out the impact of tariffs on consumers after
WASHINGTON: US housing starts increased more than expected in April and activity in the prior month was stronger than initially thought, suggesting declining mortgage rates were providing some support to the struggling housing market. Land and labour shortages, however, continue to constrain builders’ ability to construct more lower-priced houses, the
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Two seaplanes collided in mid-air on Monday over southeastern Alaska, killing at least four of those aboard, injuring 10 and leaving two people missing, US Coast Guard and Federal Aviation Administration officials said. The two aircraft went down over water about 25 to 30 miles (40-48 km) northeast of Ketchikan,
TOKYO: Toshiba Corp bowed to pressure from activist investors and said it would overhaul its board to include non-Japanese directors for the first time in 80 years, marking a dramatic shift at a cornerstone of corporate Japan. The company, in the throes of a turnaround after being roiled by a
BEIJING: China will never surrender to external pressure, the government said yesterday, though stopped short of announcing how Beijing will hit back after Washington renewed its threat to impose tariffs on all Chinese imports in an escalating trade dispute. The trade war between the world’s top two economies jumped up
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