MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines’ defense minister said Tuesday that China is the “biggest troublemaker” in Southeast Asia and called for stronger international criticism of the country’s aggression in the South China Sea, a day after China blocked Philippine ships from supplying food to a coast guard vessel in the Sabina Reef. Defense Secretary […]
We have just Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), the China-based online shopping giant. The company generates most of its revenue from several e-commerce stores, but also has a booming cloud business that Sales of AI-related products saw triple-digit year-on-year growth last quarter, says Clif DrokeEditor of Turnaround letter from Cabot. Although Alibaba is a leading […]
BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Chinese scientists have discovered a “completely new method” of producing large amounts of water using lunar soil brought back from a 2020 expedition, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. In 2020, China’s Chang’e-5 mission collected lunar samples for the first time in 44 years. Researchers from the state-run Chinese Academy […]
Tokyo, Japan (WPVI) – Kosuke and Tomomi Chujo own a Philly-style bar in Tokyo, Japan, and together they are on a mission to make the perfect cheesesteak. It all started with Kosuke’s love for Philadelphia, which dates back to his childhood in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. His family has lived in this historic neighborhood for nearly a […]
Kyrgyz-Russian Education and Science Fair will be held in Issyk-Kul region AKIPRESS.COM – On August 19, a Kyrgyz-Russian fair for the exchange of ideas, technologies and methods in the field of education and science will be held in the village of Chok-Tal, Issyk-Kul region, the Ministry of Education reported. “We need to update the content, […]
In a report published by Savills tracking the performance of 30 prime residential real estate markets worldwide, Bangkok was the second best performing rental market to Dubai in the first half of this year. Singaporewas the worst performer. Such a sharp turnaround is remarkable even in the volatile real estate industry. It is all the […]
Hong Kong-headquartered EQT Private Capital Asia has entered into an agreement to acquire PropertyGuru Group, a leading real estate technology company in Southeast Asia (SEA), for US$1.1 billion in cash. Major shareholders of PropertyGuru Group are TPG (through TPG Asia VI SF and TPG Asia VI SPV in its capacity as general partner of TPG […]
By Amanda Bechara for Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:09 CEST, August 19, 2024 | Updated: 02:09 CEST, August 19, 2024 People were hysterical after a young woman had the most amusing shopping experience of her life while visiting a plus-size mall in Thailand. The comedian, who wears a size 10, had to resort to shopping […]
(Bloomberg) — A crisis in China’s steel industry is causing iron ore prices to fall. At the same time, soy stocks in the Asian country have reached a record high. In the United States, a hot summer is increasing demand for natural gas. Here are five key charts from the global commodity markets to keep […]
The news was apparently big, but the announcement was strangely cautious. Earlier this month, China announced it had discovered the world’s first large-scale gas field in extremely deep waters and not far below the seabed. Lingshui 36-1 contains 680,000 tons of gas, said the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), and the data and plans […]
