STOCKHOLM: China has called off two business delegation visits to Sweden, China's ambassador to Stockholm said on Thursday (Dec 19), after Culture Minister Amanda Lind defied a Chinese threat of "counter-measures" by presenting a rights prize to dissident Gui Minhai. Tensions between the two ...
Chinese automakers Great Wall Motor and Changan Automobile are accelerating plans to build cars in India after the initial success of rival SAIC Motor in one of the world's biggest markets, three sources said.
REUTERS: Many facial recognition systems misidentify people of colour more often than white people, according to a U.S. government study released on Thursday that is likely to heighten increasing scepticism of technology widely used by law enforcement agencies. The study from the National ...
Semiconductor company Mellanox Technologies has received approval from EU antitrust and Mexico for its proposed acquisition by chipmaker Nvidia for US$6.8 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
NEW YORK: Wall Street stocks pushed to fresh records on Thursday (Dec 19), shrugging off a historic US impeachment vote and focusing on heightened hopes for easing trade tensions with China. All three major indices advanced to new records, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average finishing with a ...
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Southwest Airlines Co's bid to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit by an American of Iraqi descent who was removed from a 2016 flight after another passenger heard him speak in Arabic and feared he might be a terrorist.
Nike Inc on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that beat Wall Street expectations, as the world's largest footwear maker benefited from its push to sell merchandise through its app and stores.
WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped from a more than two-year high last week, pointing to sustained labour market strength that should continue to underpin consumer spending and the economy. While other data on Thursday (Dec 19) showed factory ...
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to approve a rewritten North American trade deal on Thursday that includes tougher new labor and automotive content rules than its predecessor but leaves US$1.2 trillion in U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged.
WASHINGTON: A wave of debt in emerging and developing nations has grown faster and larger than in any period of the last five decades and could end with another crisis, the World Bank warned on Thursday (Dec 19). And if the wave breaks, it could be more damaging since...
