SYDNEY: By any stretch of the imagination, the United States is one of the world’s biggest coal producers. Even after declining by about half since 2008, output last year was still about 527 million metric tonnes, the fourth-biggest total globally.
BUSAN, South Korea: Earlier last year, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol suggested there may come a time when Seoul may have to consider developing a nuclear arsenal of its own if North Korea’s nuclear threat grows. Although South Korean official
SINGAPORE: Are taxis in a death spiral as an essential transport service in Singapore? Recently, my wife was at the One Holland Village mall looking for a taxi. After waiting at the mall for some time, she finally got a taxi on the Comfort app. No p
ace291 Commentary: A350 safety incident is a bump in Cathay Pacific’s road to post-pandemic recovery
2024-10-08SINGAPORE: On Sep 24ace291, 2024, Cathay Pacific Airways will mark its 78th anniversary. How the birthday will be celebrated depends on how quickly the airline, recognised as one of the world’s best, recovers from an engine malfunction on Sep 2 duri
TOKYO: South Korea has been rocked by a wave of sexually explicit deepfake images being created and shared online, indiscriminately targeting women and girls using their school photosacegame, social media selfies and even military headshots. A Teleg
BRISBANE: One month after a United States court ruled Google had illegally maintained its monopoly on internet searchbinggopg777, the tech giant will this week face the start of yet another important antitrust case. This new case is focused on Googl
SYDNEY: When’s the last time you visited a petrol station that sold nothing but petrol? If the answer is "never", you’ve hit on one of the key problems for the roll-out of battery vehicles. There’s been a run of bad news for a promised rapid transi
SINGAPORE: As the new academic year began in Augustphclub, students at the National University of Singapore (NUS) saw an unusual number of foreign visitors on campus. Tourists crowded shuttle buses and canteens, and milled about libraries, research
55bet Commentary: Apple’s iPhone 16 launch shows AI is shaking up the tech giant’s core market
2024-10-08KEELE55bet, England: As someone who helped set up one of the first iPhones back in late 2007 on live TV, I found the launch of the first iteration of Apple’s smartphone an exciting time. At the launch in June of that year, a grinning Steve Jobs prou