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Bill To Outlaw Trade In Dog Meat Passed By The Parliament Of South Korea

South Korea's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to ban the consumption and sale of dog meat, outlawing the contentious centuries-old practice amid increased support for animal welfare. ...

The Two Priciest Cities In The World Are Singapore And Zurich

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has announced that Singapore and Zurich were tied for the most expensive cities in the world this year, followed by Geneva, New York, and Hong Kong....

Pocket wallets vs. smartphones: Can we replace cash with digital currencies?

The more than a decade-long history of cryptocurrency has clearly demonstrated that the world is keen on the new form of money. The crypto frenzy has even prompted leading central banks to work on...

AI Volatility Exposes Limits Of Traditional Market Labels

Honda's Cost Reset Targets The Structural Gap With China

Meta’s AI Agent Expands Automation Into Emails, Payments and Travel Bookings

European Bans on West Bank Settlement Goods Deepen Israel’s Rift With Allies

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Meta’s AI Agent Expands Automation Into Emails, Payments and Travel Bookings

Meta’s launch of Muse marks a significant shift in the company’s artificial intelligence strategy: the technology is moving from answering questions and generating content toward acting independently across the applications that contain users’ most valuable information. The new agent is designed to...

Honda's Cost Reset Targets The Structural Gap With China

Honda is turning cost reduction into a central part of its attempt to rebuild its automobile business as Chinese manufacturers put pressure on established Japanese automakers across global markets. Internal company documents reviewed in recent reporting indicate that Honda is seeking to cut more...

Shein’s IPO Valuation Reset Reflects the Cost of Slower Growth

Shein's long-awaited Hong Kong stock market debut is putting a much lower price on a company that was once valued as one of the world's most spectacular consumer internet growth stories. The online fashion retailer is expected to price its initial public offering at HK$48.56 a share, near the...

Apple’s September iPhone Launch Tests Its New Era of Growth

Apple’s decision to hold its next major iPhone event on September 9 comes at a strategically important moment for the company. The date follows Apple’s traditional September product cycle, but this year the event carries significance beyond the annual smartphone refresh. It will be the first major...

Nvidia’s Rubin Chip Transition Faces a Tougher Growth Test

Nvidia enters its next stage of artificial intelligence growth with an unusually high burden of expectations. The company has become the biggest beneficiary of the global race to build AI infrastructure, but the conditions that produced its extraordinary expansion are now being tested. Its Vera...

Shein’s Valuation Reset Exposes the Cost of Ultra-Fast Fashion

Shein’s decision to launch its long-awaited Hong Kong initial public offering at a valuation of up to about $27 billion marks more than a steep reduction in the price investors are willing to place on the fast-fashion company. It signals a fundamental reassessment of the business model that once...

Melanoma Vaccine of Moderna Success Opens A New Path For Personalized Cancer Care

A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna in partnership with Merck has produced positive results in a large late-stage trial for high-risk melanoma, providing further evidence that messenger RNA technology could have applications far beyond infectious diseases. The treatment, called...

Lilly's Retatrutide Related Lawsuits Expose Limits of Online Drug Enforcement

Eli Lilly's decision to file six lawsuits against companies accused of selling unauthorized versions of retatrutide represents a sharp escalation in the pharmaceutical industry's effort to control the market for experimental obesity treatments before they reach patients through legitimate channels....

Enforcement Pressure Exposes Gaps in Meta's Age Ban in Australia

Meta's removal of more than 756,000 suspected underage accounts in Australia is being presented as evidence that the country's world-first social media age restrictions are working. Yet the scale of the removals also highlights a more difficult question: why have so many under-16 users remained...

Airbnb's Growth Engine Strengthens as Travel Demand and AI Deliver

Airbnb's latest results point to a broader shift taking place across the online travel industry: companies that can combine resilient consumer demand with better technology, broader supply and multiple sources of revenue are proving capable of absorbing shocks that would once have threatened...

New Mexico's $567 Million Fine Puts Meta's Youth Strategy Under Pressure

A New Mexico court's decision ordering Meta to pay $567 million and make substantial changes to Facebook and Instagram marks a significant escalation in the legal pressure facing the technology company over the treatment of young users. The immediate financial impact is important, but the more...

China Becomes Tesla's Global Production Hub

Tesla's operations in China have evolved far beyond serving the world's largest electric vehicle market. The company's Shanghai Gigafactory has become the foundation of its global manufacturing network, supplying vehicles to multiple international markets while demonstrating how localisation,...