SEOUL — South Korea’s government will put its focus on supporting people’s livelihoods and managing risk factors, as it cut the country’s 2024 gross domestic product forecast and raised its inflation projection. In its biannual economic policy plan released on ...
WAJIMA, Japan — Hotel chef Makoto Wakabayashi was among those in Wajima hoping for a banner year as visitors returned to the scenic, seaside town that weathered more than two years of pandemic gloom. Those dreams came apart in minutes ...
HOSPITALS in at least four US states have reinstated mask mandates amid a rise in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), seasonal flu and other respiratory illness. Healthcare facilities in New York, California, Illinois and Massachusetts have made masks mandatory ...
TOKYO — Japan Airlines (JAL) on Thursday said it expected losses of more than $100 million after one of its planes was destroyed when it collided with another aircraft on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport this week. All 379 ...
SYDNEY — Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Australia hit an all-time high in 2023, according to the country’s automotive association, however light vehicle sales remained dominated by emissions-intensive trucks and sports utility vehicles (SUVs). Battery-electric vehicles were 7.2% of all ...
LONDON — Russian hackers were inside Ukrainian telecoms giant Kyivstar’s system from at least May last year in a cyberattack that should serve as a “big warning” to the West, Ukraine’s cyber spy chief told Reuters. The hack, one of the ...
BEIJING – China’s military will conduct routine patrols with its naval and air forces in the South China Sea from Wednesday to Thursday, the military’s Southern Theater Command said, as ongoing tensions simmer in the region over disputed territories. China’s ...
It certainly isn’t common to find much agreement between the various authors here at the Mises Institute and our favorite metaphorical punching bag: Paul Krugman. But when it comes to the recently resurrected policy corpse of rent control, we have ...
[This article is Chapter 9 of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities.] When we hear of political movements in favor of decentralization and secession, the word “nationalist” is often used to describe them. We have seen ...
Most traders and investors are drawn to a smooth trend, that being a movement whose highs and lows are progressive, consistent, and easily traceable. The problem is when this characteristic is exhibited by a relatively unpopular stock in a sector ...