“We need a TikTok account,” I said, to my team of mainly 20-something staff, two years ago. They looked at me blankly and slightly astonished. Yes I run a founded a communications agency but I’m not really a social media ...
Leaders from the fintech industry gathered in Parliament last night to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in businesses across the UK. Speaking at the Parliament Street think tank’s Artificial Intelligence Summit on ...
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistan court handed Imran Khan a 10-year jail term on Tuesday for leaking state secrets, his party said, the harshest sentence against the former prime minister so far and just 10 days before a general election. The ...
BANGKOK — A Thai court on Tuesday acquitted a Myanmar tycoon with close ties to the country’s junta of charges including drug trafficking, money laundering, and transnational crime following his arrest in Bangkok more than a year ago. The Thailand ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol blocked on Tuesday a bill to launch a new probe into a Halloween crowd crush that killed 159 people in Seoul’s Itaewon district in 2022, in a move slammed by the opposition and relatives ...
TOKYO — Toyota Motor retained its crown as the world’s top-selling automaker for the fourth consecutive year after posting record annual sales of 11.2 million in 2023, though its chairman apologized on Tuesday for scandals at three group companies. The ...
The government’s decision to scrap VAT-free shopping for tourists is costing the economy £11.1 billion in lost GDP and deterring about two million foreign visitors each year, according to an analysis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). ...
Sotheby’s sold a near-record of almost $8bn (£6.3bn) of art and other collectables last year, including a Pablo Picasso masterpiece of his “golden muse” that fetched $139m. The auction house, founded in London 280 years ago and now headquartered in ...
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s leader confirmed on Tuesday his intention to pass fresh national security laws soon, building on sweeping legislation Beijing imposed on the city in 2020, saying the city has the constitutional responsibility to impose the new ...
SEOUL — North Korea fired multiple unidentified cruise missiles on Tuesday into the sea off its west coast, South Korea’s military said, the third time Pyongyang has tested cruise missiles in less than a week. The missiles were launched at ...