It’s almost hard to remember nowadays, but before the pandemic a lot of us were worried about falling business dynamism in the United States. For whatever reason, Americans just weren’t starting companies — either high-growth startups or small businesses — at the rate they used
An Indonesian researcher spotted fishy behaviour by her compatriots at a conference in Denmark and refused to look away. The case has sparked a wider debate over research integrity in Indonesia.
“I never imagined she would be gone this quickly,” the 17-year-old girl's stepmother said.
In a TikTok video, French politician Geoffroy Boulard said he had air-conditioners, produced by Chinese manufacturer Haier, delivered to several schools in his district in Paris.
BANGKOK, June 29 - A 17-year-old Thai girl was on a lively strip of palm-fringed sand in the seaside city of Pattaya on Wednesday night, where a friend said she met a foreign man and struck up a conversation.
Wall Street has spent nearly two decades operating on a flawed assumption about China’s financial intentions. Eventually, Beijing would want what Washington has: the world’s reserve currency, the deepest capital markets and the extraordinary geopolitical advantages that come
Under the agreement, the airlines could expand their codeshare partnership to additional routes between Singapore and mainland China, within China and to destinations beyond the two countries.
Yeoh says poor planning decisions have left Kuala Lumpur increasingly vulnerable to flash floods.
For over a month, the girl is believed to have provided sexual services to about 60 customers.
The perceived temperature in urban areas has at times reached a record 50 deg C.
The red emergency light is flashing on America’s democracy dashboard, like a damaged aircraft teetering toward a mountain. Elon Musk becoming the planet’s first trillionaire should make us tremble for the future of self-governing republics. It’s as if we’re bringing back
Deep-sea exploration firm Ocean Infinity is tasked with conducting underwater searches for the Malaysia Airlines plane.
The amendment is designed to eliminate the “no man’s land” where Causeway accident victims are unprotected.
Rajagopal has alleged that he has been unable to renew his passport after his name was deleted from the electoral rolls.
At Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne last week, US Vice President JD Vance announced that Iran had agreed to let United Nations nuclear inspectors back into the country and called it a first step toward permanently ending Tehran’s nuclear program — a claim Iran’s foreign ministry
It comes as regional rivals like Taiwan, China and Japan are investing heavily in chip factories and other technology.
The regulations introduce what Beijing calls “full-process supervision” of outbound investment.
The Philippines is approaching a critical moment in its nickel policy. As one of Southeast Asia’s largest nickel producers, it has a rare opportunity to transform nickel from a raw mineral export into a foundation for national industrialization. But that opportunity is not
Five participants died just 10 days into the 45-day training from causes including cardiac arrest, heat stroke, tuberculosis and pneumonia, according to the defence ministry.
Arsen Ostrovsky discovered AI-generated images depicting him as a “crisis actor” were proliferating online.
The number of female full-time homemakers still dwarfs that of their male counterparts.
The conditions in 2026 have brought a much cooler June than in 2025.
The regulator is investigating possible non-compliance by five platforms, including TikTok and Instagram.
South Korea's World Cup elimination also earned the team a rebuke from the country's president Lee Jae Myung, who pointed the finger at "incompetent people" and apologised to the nation.
Chinese coast guard vessels routinely operated south of Yonaguni Island in June, media reported.
Tensions have again escalated in the Middle East, with the United States and Iran trading strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. It follows reports of an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship trying to transit through the strait. Both the US and Iran have accused each other of
The incident took place at construction site for a wastewater pumping facility in Barangay Pamplona Dos, Las Pinas City.
The threats involved Batangas City Integrated High School.
BEIJING, June 29 - China supports Belarus in safeguarding its national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Beijing on Monday, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
KABUL, June 29 - Pakistan's security forces killed at least 29 militants in ground and air operations along the Afghanistan border, it said on Monday, while the Afghan Taliban said at least 38 civilians were killed in airstrikes.
The Taliban government says civilians were killed, while Pakistan maintains they targeted militants.
The United States is right to worry about losing ground to China in clinical research. But if Washington frames trial reform mainly as a race, it risks missing the larger prize: a faster, safer and more trusted model for developing medicines that the rest of the world can rely.
SYDNEY, June 29 - Australia and Vanuatu on Monday signed a development and security pact that had been delayed for months over Vanuatu's concerns that it could stifle investment from other countries.
The Nakamal Agreement commits Vanuatu to rejecting the militarisation of infrastructure.
South Korea was eliminated after missing out on a spot among the eight best third-placed teams.
Among them are the National Institute for Defense Studies and Mitsubishi Electric Defense and Space Technologies Corporation, said China's commerce ministry.
The list includes firms involved in supplying components and engineering support for Japan’s defence sector.
Equity markets fluctuated, with Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Taipei and Wellington up but Jakarta, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo down.
Islamabad said the operations had targeted militants.
She brushed aside a death sentence handed down in absentia and denouncing the ruling as “illegal".
The Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law comes into effect on July 1.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, the earthquake struck at a depth of 6km.
Other platforms, including TikTok and Snapchat, are also increasingly used by traffickers.
"We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other nation," says President Lee Jae Myung.
Experts warn the increase would also further weaken middle-class purchasing power.
The body of Tunchanok Donhomla, 17, was found discarded near a railway track on Saturday, police say.
