South Korea plans to channel windfall tax revenue from its booming semiconductor industry into a new future fund. The money would help finance major industrial projects and to support younger ...
Seoul to finance AI-era growth with fund drawn from chip tax windfall
The Lee Jae Myung administration plans to create a new investment fund financed by a tax windfall from the semiconductor boom. The proceeds will be channeled in ...
Pakistan drop Shaheen, Hasan and Noman for West Indies and England tests
Saud Shakeel has been left out of the West Indies tour because of fitness issues, but Pakistan are expecting him to be back for the Tests in England ...
India calls Pakistan’s Khawaja Asif ‘mentally unstable’ over his remarks on PM Modi’s Seychelles award
A diplomatic war of words has erupted after Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif criticised PM Narendra Modi's newly instituted Seychelles honour. India responded sharply calling the minister's ...
American pilot shot dead and his plane set on fire after landing in remote area of Indonesia
The local military carried out a 10-person operation to recover the man's body ...
Heavy rains leave 5 dead in China’s north while Tropical Storm Maysak hits the south and Vietnam
Heavy rains have left five people dead in northern China, while a tropical storm has toppled tree and submerged cars in the south, according to state media.
South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
South Korea’s government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028.
China’s Strategic Interests in Myanmar Behind U.S. Citizen Arrest: Sources
The arrest of American Min Zin in China, apparently over his influential analysis of China's interests in Myanmar, is a warning ...
‘Nothing left except death’: Myanmar families grieve huge war toll
Ranks of bereaved Myanmar families bow in silent grief to pray for their dead, some of the latest victims in a years-long conflict now estimated to have claimed 100,000 lives."Before the coup, our ...
Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda attracts over 3.87 million visitors in H1
YANGON: The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda in Myanmar, attracted over 3.87 million visitors during the first half of this year, Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of ...