5. Letters Patent has had the good grounding of two starts, including a handy debut behind Omolong and a Newcastle win, and that should set him up to run well in what is a solid end of season two-year-old field. Always in control last time outside the speed and handled the ground nicely. Should run well. 3. Scintill…
A petition launched last week by economists regarding artificial intelligence’s transformative effect on the economy has secured the support of a glittering list of the profession’s heavyweights. The core demand is that policymakers must immediately intervene to protect society from the potential ill effects of AI.
BYD is betting that plug-in hybrids will become the next major growth engine in the global electrified vehicle market, with its Sealion 6 DM-i emerging as one of the company's strongest-selling models across Europe, Australia, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Retailers in Japan are offering a wide range of eel products to attract consumers ahead of Sunday’s Day of the Ox, a traditional day for eating nutritious grilled eels to fight the summer heat.
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's major platform operators have separately teamed up with Circle Internet Group Inc., the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, to cooperate in the establishment of digital asset infrastructure, companies taking part in the endeavor said Thursday.
Origin Energy, the largest Australian power and gas company, has confirmed that a hacker has gained unauthorised access to some customers’ private information, including names, addresses and partial credit card and bank account numbers.
Since 2017, I have covered South Korea’s political and economic landscape as a reporter, with a focus on foreign affairs, inter-Korean relations and security.As a foreign affairs reporter, I closely follow developments from the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Ministry and the Defense Ministry, tracking shifts i…
Oil prices continued the march towards the $100 per barrel mark on Thursday after Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, widening the regional conflict that threatens global trade and energy supply across markets.
SEJONG, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has recently shared its economic growth vision and road map for the internationalization of the Korean won with investors in London and Singapore, the finance ministry said Thursday.
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's science minister expressed willingness to promote investments in local companies from U.S. big tech firms, ahead of his planned trip to Silicon Valley later Thursday.
People walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Expectations of an interest rate rise have jumped after new figures show the country added more than 76,000 jobs through June even though signs grew that the overall employment market is weakening.
Krafton said Thursday it has made a strategic investment in Neon Commerce, a global game commerce infrastructure firm, as the Korean game developer moves to build its own payment ecosystem and strengthen direct engagement with players worldwide.
PLC Resources has lit up a pair of compelling gold stories at its Abbotts North project in Western Australia’s Murchison region, with maiden reconnaissance drilling sniffing out a potential gold system at its Rochefort prospect. Additionally, a new airborne survey has unveiled a major, untested regional target corri…
Woodside has failed in its bid to force three activists to hand over documents relating to a protest involving a hoax gas leak that forced the evacuation of thousands of workers from its corporate headquarters in Perth three years ago.
Hedge fund short-sellers have ramped up bets against U.K.-listed stocks this year, with disclosed positions surging fivefold in the first half of 2026.
The US Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Wednesday to toughen a government ban on Chinese automakers entering the American market that could bar German automaker Mercedes-Benz from selling vehicles in the US.
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- As better-than-expected second-quarter growth puts the South Korean economy on track for annual growth of 3 percent or more this year, expectations are growing that the Bank of Korea (BOK) could raise the benchmark interest rate again at its next monetary policy meeting.
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's trade watchdog said Thursday it will ask the finance ministry to impose antidumping duties on Chinese butyl acrylate after concluding that the imports had harmed the domestic industry.
Pacgold Limited soared almost 50 per cent to as high as 16 cents in early trading after revealing it had punched through a substantial high-grade copper-gold discovery at its White Dam North gold project in South Australia.
Global gold heavyweight Gold Fields has fired up the drill rig at Great Southern Mining’s high-priority Mt Dillon copper-gold target in north Queensland, putting one of the company’s most exciting exploration plays to the test.
The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, recently granted the House prosecution’s request to subpoena the bank and tax records of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Manases Carpio, in connection with allegations of unexplained wealth under Article II of the impeachment complaint. In approving the reque…
Nike is ending online sales agreements with potentially hundreds of distributors in China as part of a sweeping effort to revive flagging sales in the region.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked diplomats to push back against talk of a "kill switch" in American technology products following the White House's short-lived decision to keep foreigners from America's most advanced AI models, according to a recent cable reviewed by Reuters.
Moonshot AI's latest model, Kimi K3, is said to trail only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.6 in terms of performance. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images)
SEJONG, July 23 (Yonhap) -- The labor force participation rate among South Koreans aged 15 to 29 fell in May from a year earlier, data showed Thursday, reflecting growing difficulties in finding jobs amid economic uncertainties.
Dalaroo Metals says it has peered into the depths beneath the surface of its Blue Lagoon rare earths project in Greenland and liked what it saw, with a geophysical survey confirming unconsolidated sediment packages up to 50 metres in thickness.
SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- Trading volume at major South Korean crypto exchanges have shrunk to account for around 1 percent of the corresponding figure for the local stock market, industry data showed Thursday.