NEW YORK — The brother of a former Coinbase Global, Inc. product manager was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty in what US prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency. Nikhil Wahi ...
LONDON — Countries should consider recommending that passengers wear masks on long-haul flights, given the rapid spread of the latest Omicron subvariant of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday. In ...
Facebook and Instagram are to tighten restrictions around the data available to firms to target ads at teenage users, the platforms’ parent company, Meta, has said. From February, advertisers will no longer be able see a user’s gender or the ...
New research has revealed a greater proportion of employees would prefer to work in the office with flexible hours than work from home with structured hours. The survey of full time office workers across the UK and Ireland to learn ...
QUITO – Ecuador reported its first case of human transmission of bird flu in a 9-year–old girl, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday, marking a rare case of human infection a month after the country declared an animal health emergency. Human illness from bird flu infections have ranged from no symptoms to mild illness to severe disease resulting in death, according ...
HANOI – Chinese display maker BOE Technology Group Co Ltd., a supplier of both Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd., plans to invest a substantial sum to build two factories in Vietnam, two people familiar with the matter said. The investment may total up to $400 million, one of them said. The ...
JAKARTA– Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for her safety because of her gender identity. She saw some of her worst fears come true last month, when the world’s largest Muslim-majority ...
MEXICO CITY – The United States is looking to Canada to help cope with the growing number of migrants at the United States’ border with Mexico, a State Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday. A possible trilateral agreement with Canada, the United States and Mexico was on the table as the three ...
BEIJING – Chinese state media defended on Wednesday the retaliatory measures against South Korea and Japan over their COVID-19 travel curbs as “reasonable”, while Chinese tourists decried Seoul’s “insulting” treatment on social media. China re-opened its borders on Sunday after three years of isolation under the world’s strictest regime of COVID restrictions, which Beijing abruptly began ...
The battery startup Britishvolt is in talks with an Indonesia-linked oil and gas investor for a £160m rescue deal that would almost wipe out the value of existing shareholders’ stakes. The investor consortium is led by DeaLab Group, a UK-based ...