REUTERSWASHINGTON — US President Joseph R. Biden on Monday called on oil and gas companies to use their record profits to lower costs for Americans and increase production, or pay a higher tax rate, as he battles high pump prices with elections coming in a
TOKYO — Chinese fashion retailer Shein said on Tuesday it would open its first bricks-and-mortar store in Japan this month, in a break from the company’s online business model.Opening from Nov. 13 in Tokyo’s fashion district of Harajuku, it will be the company’s first permanent
APO Hiking Society: Boboy Garrovillo, Danny Javier and Jim Paredes — BW FILE PHOTOTHE MAN who coined the phrase “Original Pilipino Music” of OPM, left the world one last song before he passed away.The day after singer-songwriter and APO Hiking Society member Daniel “Danny” Morales
HONG KONG – Macau carried out mass testing of its 700,000 residents on Tuesday after the emergence of COVID–19 cases in the past week, including at a major casino that prompted authorities to seal 1,500 people inside.All residents in the world’s biggest gambling hub have been told to take a PCR test on Tuesday and then
Windfall taxes on energy companies could be raised to 30 per cent and extended as much as three years, as Downing Street to scrambles to fill a £40bn black hole in the UK’s finances. The new Government is eager reassure markets after former Prime Minister Liz
Elon Musk has appointed himself CEO of Twitter and dissolved its board of directors, it was revealed in a company filing on Monday, as Twitter employees brace for extensive layoffs under a new restructuring that could target up to a quarter of staff. The Washington Post
JAKARTA – Indonesia‘s food and drug agency said on Monday it had revoked licenses for syrup-type drug production by two local firms for violating manufacturing rules, as it investigates the deaths of more than 150 children due to acute kidney injury (AKI).The decision by the BPOM agency came after Indonesia temporarily banned sales of some syrup-based medications and identified the presence in
More than a third of businesses in the hospitality industry risk going bust early next year as running costs and dwindling consumer confidence push them to the brink. According to an analysis of a survey by four leading trade bodies, 35 per cent of respondents expect
A rise in unemployment above pre-pandemic levels next year will intensify the squeeze on household finances, which is already at its worst since the Second World War, a think tank says. The jobless rate has fallen from 4 per cent at the beginning of 2020 to
More than 10,000 spectators cheered as a team of UK-based competitors won £7.4 million. The victory was marked not by a goal or the crossing of a finishing line but the smashing of a monument by brightly coloured creatures.Tundra Esports, video game players from London, won
PIXABAYMODHERA, India – Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he molds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter’s wheel.These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India’s Gujarat state, has doubled the amount of earthenware he makes compared to a few months ago since he
KYIV – President Vladimir Putin said Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and a decision to freeze participation in a Black Sea grain export program were responses to a drone attack on Moscow’s fleet in Crimea that he blamed on Ukraine.Putin told a news conference on Monday that Ukrainian drones had used the same marine corridors that grain ships transited under
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