SINGAPORE: Asia stocks slipped on Monday in a subdued start to a week where Japan’s central bank might edge further away from its uber-easy policies, while a key reading on U.S. inflation is expected to underpin market pricing of interest rate cuts there. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) meets Tuesday …

HONG KONG: Tencent Holdings is relying on one-time bitter rival ByteDance to promote its most important video game release in years, in a sign of warming relations as well as intensifying competition as China’s gaming industry returns to growth. Tencent released on Friday mobile party game DreamStar that it hopes …

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Pakistan will hope Shaheen Afridi can bowl himself back into form and his batting team mates can rebuild confidence in a two-day tour match before trying to save the test series against Australia in Melbourne. Shan Masood’s team were trounced by 360 runs in the opener in …

Arm Holdings Plc has recently laid off over 70 software engineers in China though it will relocate some of the roles outside of the Asian nation, according to people with knowledge of the move. The British firm’s actions mirrored those of major chip companies including Qualcomm Inc that have cut …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Dual Language Programme (DLP) is once again in the spotlight, following the launch of an online petition to maintain the status quo on its existing guidelines by MCA Youth on Monday (Dec 18). MCA Youth secretary-general Saw Yee Fung said the unofficial announcement of the new DLP …

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Five years after graduating with a diploma in computer network maintenance, Georges Bamue, 27, still navigates the streets of Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital as a motorcycle taxi rider, unable to find a job or raise enough to start a business in his trained field. On a …

Ottawa: The Bank of Canada’s top official said policymakers will consider cutting interest rates when inflation is “clearly” on a path to the 2% target, but added that it’s still “too early”. In a speech last Friday, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said that once officials are assured that …

KUALA LUMPUR: The prosecution in Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s trial on Monday (Dec 18) told the High Court here that 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) former general counsel Jasmine Loo Ai Swan would be called to testify in the case. Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib said the prosecution is …

Tesla Inc’s biggest vehicle recall ever threatens to hurt the company’s defence in several high-profile lawsuits it faces over crashes linked to Autopilot. The automaker’s recall of two million cars comes after a top US auto-safety regulator found its driver-assistance program failed to ensure drivers stay attentive. Lawyers representing crash …

In a year when much of the tech industry has pulled back on spending, startups have been hit particularly hard. During the pandemic boom, investors were happy to bankroll promising young companies’ growth at any cost. Now, with new funding rounds all but evaporated, the order of the day is …