“I told them, if they insisted on coming in, we would burn the ship that night,” recalled Kuo Chien-ping, one of the movement’s leaders. Onshore, residents armed with rocks and bottles they claimed were filled with gasoline — it was actually water — lined the pier prepared to defend their island, also known as Lanyu. “It […]
“We assessed the social and economic effects of the exploration program and found it to be positive,” the decision says. It adds that Northback plans to spend $5 million as part of its exploratory project, “of which roughly 50 per cent will be spent locally.”
Joumanna Bercetche: $600 billion was the headline figure that the White House put out after that bilateral meeting that took place between the Crown Prince and President Trump. Later on, Crown Prince MBS in a speech said that they’re working to increase that figure to $1 trillion of actual deals though. From what we understand, […]
“What’s really exciting about this is that it’s a local-currency facility” so the company doesn’t have to take foreign-exchange risk, Anish Thakkar, a co-founder of the company, said in an interview. It “allows us to provide the most affordable financing to customers,” he said.
After becoming the first major US crypto company to be listed on an exchange almost four years ago through a direct listing, shares of Coinbase jumped some 260% in the past two years, valuing the company at roughly $53 billion. Those gains belie a roller-coaster ride for investors following a series of scandals hitting the […]
“CPI categories that are China import-intensive — such as toys, shoes, and apparel – may see modest inflation,” Bloomberg Economics forecasters led by Anna Wong wrote in a note Monday. “Retailers are finding it difficult to pass on higher prices without suffering a sharp drop in demand — though they’ll still try. If that effect […]
Flatley: Well, the, one of the things that you know, came up is this idea of fentanyl, and China shipping precursor chemicals for the production of fentanyl to Mexico and other countries in order to basically get that drug into the United States. And so China sent one of its national security officials to Geneva […]
New Zealand is attempting to match steps in Australia, which late last year passed a law that banned children under the age of 16 from setting up accounts on popular social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. The UK, the EU, Canada and some states in the US are also exploring the issue, […]
Clinical trial participants who took tirzepatide, the drug sold as Zepbound, lost an average of 50 pounds (22.8 kilograms) over 72 weeks, while those who took semaglutide, or Wegovy, lost about 33 pounds (15 kilograms). That’s according to the study funded by Lilly, which was published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Globally, Toyota sold 10.8 million cars in 2024, with the US accounting for a little less than a quarter of those. While half were made locally and another 30% came from neighboring Canada and Mexico, some 281,000 vehicles were imported from Japan. That includes popular models such as the 4Runner mid-sized SUV, Prius hybrid and […]