TOKYO (THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Products and services equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being used in our daily lives. They must be used wisely, by understanding the nature of AI. In AI, computers process large amounts of information to analyse them and make decisions. While conventional products operate within a range […]
HANOI (AFP) – US-China rivalry is set to dominate discussions as the foreign ministers of 10 South-east Asian countries begin an online summit Wednesday (Sept 9), with Washington’s top diplomat ready to take aim at Beijing’s “bullying” in the South China Sea. The summit comes just days after China launched ballistic missiles in the flashpoint […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – You Young-sik has tried his luck running businesses, but when his convenience store, a sausage factory and a second-hand furniture shop all failed, he realised he had found a niche, one that he understood well: helping people go out of business. You says he is now busier than ever, due to the […]
Good morning! Here are our top stories to kick-start your Wednesday, Sept 9. 550 complaints of illegal deployment of maids yearly from 2017 to 2019: MOM This formed just 0.2 per cent of the over 236,000 employers of foreign domestic workers here. READ MORE HERE Visitors arrive from NZ, Brunei as S’pore opens its borders […]
JAKARTA (REUTERS) – Indonesia on Tuesday (Sept 8) added 12 more companies, including social media firm Twitter and video-conferencing site Zoom, to a list of internet-based businesses that must pay a 10 per cent value-added tax on sales. In July Indonesia had already announced that Alphabet Inc’s Google Asia Pacific, Netflix and Facebook among other […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. corporate bond market has made a dramatic recovery from the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, but it is unlikely to improve further in the near term, according to UBS Group (UBSG.S) analysts. Spreads on U.S. corporate debt – the premium investors demand to hold the riskier credit over […]
COLOMBO (AFP) – A burning oil tanker began leaking diesel off Sri Lanka’s coast, naval officials said on Tuesday (Sept 8), fuelling fears of a major environmental disaster. The Panama-flagged New Diamond, carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude oil and another 1,700 of diesel fuel, has been burning since last Thursday. A diesel oil slick was […]
BEIJING – China announced an initiative to develop international standards for data security on Tuesday (Sept 8) and called on governments not to force companies to hand over user data. Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a seminar in Beijing that the government has proposed a “Global Initiative on Data Security”, inviting other countries to take […]
PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia on Tuesday (Sept 8) announced 100 new Covid-19 cases, the highest in the three months since the government relaxed movement curbs on June 10. Sixty-two of the new cases came from the Benteng Lahad Datu (LD) cluster in Sabah that originated from detention centres. Malaysia relaxed its movement […]
PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Malaysia on Tuesday (Sept 8) announced 100 new Covid-19 cases, the highest in the three months since the government relaxed movement curbs on June 10. Sixty-two of the new cases came from the Benteng Lahad Datu (LD) cluster in Sabah that originated from detention centres. Malaysia relaxed its movement […]