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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...

India’s Surveillance Crossroads: Push for Always-On GPS Tracking Meets Privacy Backlash

Netflix Moves Toward Structural Expansion as Exclusive Talks Advance for Warner Bros Discovery Assets

Hollywood Labour Fears Intensify as Netflix’s Warner Bros Bid Signals a New Era of Consolidated Power

Volkswagen Charts a Strategic Transformation With $186 Billion Investment Drive Through 2030

Global Airlines Gain Momentum as Strong Demand Set to Drive Record 2026 Earnings

Paramount’s Hostile Gamble Intensifies as Warner Bros’ Silence Becomes the Catalyst for a $108 Billion Power Play

Australia’s Enforcement of Teen Social Media Ban Signals a New Phase of State-Led Digital Regulation

Debt-Driven Expansion and Heavy Dependence on OpenAI Put Oracle’s AI Ambitions Under Intensifying Market Scrutiny

Albanese Confronts a Digital Generation as Australia’s Youth Test Boundaries of Landmark Social Media Ban

Prada Turns Cultural Controversy Into Strategic Reinvention With $930 ‘Made in India’ Sandals

Companies

Walmart's Flipkart Partners With Indian Startup To Foray Into Alcohol Delivery: Reports

Flipkart, Walmart’s e-commerce platform in India will now deliver alcohol to customers. The major rival of Amazon in the Indian market, Flipkart has reportedly already struck a partnership for the deliveries with a startup that has the backing of spirits giant Diageo and deliveries will initially...

Intel’s Chip Performance Can Be Boosted By 20% By Its New Transistor Technology

The performance of Intel’s next round of processors could be boosted by as much as 20 per cent by the use of a new method for making transistors on semiconductors, said the chief architect of the new technology on Thursday. Designing and manufacturing of its own chips is done by the Santa...

Anti-China Content In Indonesia Was Censored By ByteDance Till Mid-2020: Reuters

Content that were perceived to be critical of the Chinese government were censored by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance on its news aggregator app in Indonesia between 2018 till about middle of 2020, claimed a report published by the news agency Reuters. A team from ByteDance's...

Apple Set To Become The Second Ever $2 Trillion Company Of The World After Saudi Aramco

After a continued rise in its share prices even during the novel coronavirus pandemic, Apple is set to become the first American company to reach a valuation of $2 trillion. This rise of the company also underscored the value of its iPhone ecosystem. Compared to the lows reached in March,...

Million Posts Sharing Misinformation On Coronavirus Removed By Facebook In Second Quarter

Amidst calls from different quarters to do more to prevent the spread of misinformation on the novel coronavirus pandemic, social media giant Facebook said that more than 7 million posts had been removed by it in the second quarter itself – all related to sharing false information about the novel...

Covid-19 Hit: Cruise Company Royal Caribbean Reports $1.6bn Los For Q2

The cruise industry is one of the worst hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic. And the quarterly results from the industry are reflecting the massiveness of the pandemic hit. A net loss of $1.6bn for the second quarter of the year was reported by Royal Caribbean Group, a period...

Pandemic Hit, Hotel Chain Marriot Reports Bigger-Than-Expected Loss For Q2

One of the sectors that has been most severely impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic is the global hotel industry because of travel restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the pandemic. And now the true scale of the devastation for the industry is coming out as the largest of...

Increased Delivery Fees During Holiday Season To Be Implement By UPS

A new fee schedule released by the United Parcel Service Inc, it will be charging significantly higher fees for shipments of packages from large shippers who want to send significantly more packages through its system during the holiday season even as the novel coronavirus pandemic rages on...

Uber’s Ride Haling Takes Pandemic Hit But Revenue Of Food Delivery Doubles

While the trips for ride hailing company Uber increased by 5 per cent in the second quarter from its lows in April, the company’s gross bookings were 75 per cent lower than the same period a year ago. This is the major revenues for the company in the past. However there was an increase of...

BP Cuts Dividend By 50% After Huge Losses Due To Pandemic

The novel coronavirus pandemic hit on the global demand for oil and its prices has forced British Petroleum (BP) to reduce its shareholder dividend by 50 per cent while announcing a quarterly loss of $6.7bn. For pension funds and private investors, this cut in dividends is another blow as...

US Accused By Chinese State Media Of Trying To Steal TikTok

The manner in which the United States is treating TikTok — the very popular video-sharing app that has come in the cross fire of the worsening US-China relations, has been described by the Chinese state media as "nasty" in the last few days. "The US' decoupling from China starts [with]...

Microsoft Confirms Talking To TikTok And Trump To Purchase The Chinese App

United States based technology giant Microsoft Corp. is in talks with the Chinese short video pp TikTok to buy out the operations of the app in the United States as well as in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Microsoft has confirmed in a blog post on Sunday. The company has also...

Lifestyle

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

The Two Priciest Cities In The World Are Singapore And Zurich

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

India’s Surveillance Crossroads: Push for Always-On GPS Tracking Meets Privacy Backlash

Netflix Moves Toward Structural Expansion as Exclusive Talks Advance for Warner Bros Discovery Assets

Hollywood Labour Fears Intensify as Netflix’s Warner Bros Bid Signals a New Era of Consolidated Power

Volkswagen Charts a Strategic Transformation With $186 Billion Investment Drive Through 2030

Global Airlines Gain Momentum as Strong Demand Set to Drive Record 2026 Earnings

Paramount’s Hostile Gamble Intensifies as Warner Bros’ Silence Becomes the Catalyst for a $108 Billion Power Play

Australia’s Enforcement of Teen Social Media Ban Signals a New Phase of State-Led Digital Regulation

Debt-Driven Expansion and Heavy Dependence on OpenAI Put Oracle’s AI Ambitions Under Intensifying Market Scrutiny

Albanese Confronts a Digital Generation as Australia’s Youth Test Boundaries of Landmark Social Media Ban

Prada Turns Cultural Controversy Into Strategic Reinvention With $930 ‘Made in India’ Sandals

Walmart's Flipkart Partners With Indian Startup To Foray Into Alcohol Delivery: Reports

Intel’s Chip Performance Can Be Boosted By 20% By Its New Transistor Technology

Anti-China Content In Indonesia Was Censored By ByteDance Till Mid-2020: Reuters

Apple Set To Become The Second Ever $2 Trillion Company Of The World After Saudi Aramco

Million Posts Sharing Misinformation On Coronavirus Removed By Facebook In Second Quarter

Covid-19 Hit: Cruise Company Royal Caribbean Reports $1.6bn Los For Q2

Pandemic Hit, Hotel Chain Marriot Reports Bigger-Than-Expected Loss For Q2

Increased Delivery Fees During Holiday Season To Be Implement By UPS

Uber’s Ride Haling Takes Pandemic Hit But Revenue Of Food Delivery Doubles

BP Cuts Dividend By 50% After Huge Losses Due To Pandemic

US Accused By Chinese State Media Of Trying To Steal TikTok

Microsoft Confirms Talking To TikTok And Trump To Purchase The Chinese App

World

Taiwan Rolls Out Universal Security Handbook as China’s Threat Deepens

Wealthy Nations Retreat from Climate Leadership as COP30 Chief Warns of Fading Resolve

Brazil’s Amazon ‘Time Machine’ Tests the Future of Climate as COP30 Nears

Europe’s Strategic Break-with-China: How the EU Is Rewiring Its Industrial Core to Escape Beijing’s Grip on Rare Earths

Trump Issues Firm Warning to Russia in Lead-Up to High-Stakes Summit

People

Reagan’s Enduring Shadow: How an Old Conservative Ideal Still Defines and Challenges Trump’s Presidency

South Korean Workers Recount Ordeal After U.S. Immigration Raid on Hyundai Plant

Federal Judge Likely to Stand Guard Over Fed’s Independence in Cook Dispute

When Allies Turned Adversaries: The Dramatic Implosion of the Trump–Musk Alliance

Trump Declines Further Debates As Harris Emerges As Debate Winner In Polls