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A fuel tanker navigates near Cienfuegos Oil Refinery southeast of Havana Thomson Reuters Asian utility companies are stocking up on dirtier fuel oil amid natural gas shortages. That's due to a slash in Russian gas supplies, leading Europe and Asia to compete for the alternatives left on the market. In August, Japan's fuel-oil purchases soared […]
RELATED STORIES Like viewers, Good Trouble star Sherry Cola also sometimes feels like the show’s writers have a crystal ball to help them craft topical and prescient storylines. The Freeform drama has been highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement since its premiere in early 2019, in addition to telling stories about women in tech, transgender […]
“It’s been valued twice. Once for probate and then once by another jewellery expert – two wildly different valuations. “The highest price was £3,500 and the lowest price was £150,” the guest explained before Joanna gave her own valuation. “It’s within the region of the 19th Century and the value of it at auction – […]
RELATED STORIES On the same day that NBC’s Saturday Night Live cast its first-ever Asian cast member, a video has surfaced in which Shane Gillis, another of Season 45’s new hires, uses racist slurs while critiquing Chinatown and its culture. In a clip (embedded below) from “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast”, dated September 2018 and […]
Reuters / Kai Pfaffenbach Asian shares jumped and European stocks soared, capping a tumultuous week of holiday trading in global stock markets. European indexes have been battered more than the US this year, with worries about trade, Italy’s budget crisis, and rising interest rates weighing on sentiment. The Euro Stoxx 50 and most major regional […]
New Delhi–based Shailja Mittal had hired a cab driver to take her 11-year-old daughter to school. But one day, when he didn’t show up and sent another man instead, the mother in her decided to take charge. The city routinely ranks in polls as among the most unsafe in the world for women, and a […]
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images China’s reticent Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) intervened in declining Asian markets Wednesday, with a surprise message of trust, during the increasingly opaque trade war truce supposedly delivered at the G20 leaders summit in Argentina. That stands in pretty stark contrast to the volley of Tuesday tweets from President Donald Trump that smacked […]
Indonesian judoka Miftahul Jannah was banned from competing in the women’s 52kg visual impairment category at the Asian Para Games after the athlete refused to remove her hijab. The 21-year-old Muslim was disqualified from the competition for breaching the International Judo Federation (IJF) rules, which state that a judoka’s head “may not be covered except […]
REUTERS/Fred Dufour/Pool; Alex Wong/Getty Images European share markets followed Asian counterparts lower on Monday as investors took fright at news Washington was set to announce a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods. President Donald Trump’s expected announcement of new tariffs on $ 200 billion in Chinese goods drew an immediate threat of reprisals from […]
A third summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in is planned for September. While the subject of denuclearization remains at the center of the negotiation table, Moon said plans to build a railway across the peninsula will kick off this year. Moon proposed an East Asian railroad community […]
