Liz Truss replaces Boris Johnson as British PM
LONDON — Liz Truss will replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister on Tuesday, traveling to see Queen Elizabeth in Scotland before appointing a new team of top cabinet ministers to tackle the economic crisis and draw her deeply divided party together.
G7 company emissions fall short of global climate goal
COMPANIES in the Group of Seven (G7) economies are failing to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives, non-profit disclosure platform CDP and global management consultancy Oliver Wyman said on Tuesday, based on current corporate pledges to cut emissions.
Cryptoverse: Bitcoin’s no longer the king of the swingers
Bitcoin's been called a lot of things. Buzzy, beguiling, baffling, even bogus. But never boring.
Yet, of late, it's been eerily subdued.
The king of the swingers has been uncharacteristically treading...
Dream job: the Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing
TOKYO - Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing.
The 38-year-old Tokyo resident charges 10,000 yen ($71) per booking to accompany clients and simply exist...
Inside Tesla’s drive to keep Musk’s battery promise
The secret behind Elon Musk's goal of selling 20 million Tesla's a year by 2030 lies in its pioneering battery technology.
The good news is that by using bigger cells and...
Business travel budgets rising as firms use 2019 as spending benchmark -CWT
SYDNEY - Business travel budgets are poised to rise in 2023 as companies benchmark against pre-pandemic levels of travel spending despite growing uncertainty over the economic outlook, a senior executive at global corporate travel agency CWT said on...
Australia eyes record farm export earnings from bumper wheat harvests
SYDNEY, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Australian farmers are expected to earn a record amount from agriculture exports this financial year, the country's chief commodity forecaster said on Tuesday, as it raised its...
Singapore hotel prices hit 10-year high as city roars back to life
HOTEL ROOMS in Singapore are now the most expensive in almost a decade as the city-state seeks to position itself as the tourism and business destination in Asia with a slew of high-profile events lined up for the coming months.
Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib seeks royal pardon
KUALA LUMPUR — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has applied for a royal pardon, the speaker of parliament said on Monday, less than two weeks after he was sent to jail for 12 years for corruption.
Retailer’s CFO plunges to death at NYC’s Jenga tower
BED BATH & BEYOND, Inc.’s chief financial officer (CFO) fell to his death from New York’s Tribeca skyscraper known as the “Jenga” tower on Friday afternoon, police said on Sunday, days after the struggling retailer announced it was closing stores and laying off workers.
Special presidential envoy asks pope to ‘pray for Taiwan’
TAIPEI — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s special envoy met Pope Francis on Sunday and asked him to “pray for Taiwan,” on a trip the Taipei government has cast as a demonstration of their close relations even as the Holy See courts China.
Where’s the beef? Brazil balances barbecues and forest protection
RIO DE JANEIRO — Among a raft of more conventional presidential campaign promises, Brazil’s former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — who aims to unseat President Jair Bolsonaro in October polls — has included an unusual pledge: to give Brazilians back their beef.
















