Malaysia’s finance ministry said on Wednesday it had terminated the services of the chairman of the public transport operator amid an outcry over his response to a train accident in which more than 200 people were injured. On Monday, 47 commuters were severely hurt and 166 sustained minor injuries when two light rail metro trains…
Britain had no plan to protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19 and the decision to send patients from hospital into care homes without being tested for the virus led to the disease spreading like wildfire, Prime Minister Johnson’s former top adviser said.Dominic Cummings told a parliamentary committee that health minister Matt Hancock failed to honour…
This morning Datacy, a startup with its headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, announced that it has closed $2.4 million in new funding to continue building its consumer-friendly data collection and monetization service. The company is effectively an argument that the preceding sentence is possible. Datacy is a tool that allows individuals to collect their browsing data,…
Rock picking is probably not the first thing you think about when you think agricultural robotics. Understandably so. There are a number of companies out there looking to automate aspects like fruit and vegetable picking, weeding and field tending, but rocks are still a major issue for many farmers. They’re big, they’re heavy and they…
At a critical stage in charting the economic voyage back to normality, the inflation compass may be going haywire.
Indian shares were little changed on Wednesday, as gains in energy and consumer discretionary stocks were countered by losses in financials and materials.
BENGALURU, May 26 (Reuters) – Indian shares were little changed on Wednesday, as gains in energy and consumer discretionary stocks were countered by losses in financials and materials.The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was up 0.07% at 15218.05 by 0403 GMT, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex was 0.08% higher at 50,686.31.Reliance Industries Ltd, down…
An appreciation in China’s yuan might not be a good way to deal with rises in commodity prices, the state-owned Economic Information Daily said in a front-page commentary on Wednesday.
* Philippine stocks set for best day since Feb. 1 * S. Korean won, Taiwan dlr gain 0.3% * Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand closed By Arundhati Dutta May 26 (Reuters) – Philippine shares were headed for the best day in nearly four months on Wednesday i…
The dollar wallowed near a five-month trough against major peers on Wednesday as Federal Reserve insistence that stimulus will continue kept yields low, while surprisingly hawkish New Zealand central bank comments pushed the kiwi higher. The euro traded just north of the key $1.2250 level — holding gains from Tuesday when it pushed as high…





