TikTok has reached a settlement with a Florida teenager who blamed the platform and other social media companies for fueling his addiction, leading to depression, anxiety, and sleep loss, just ahead of a trial to determine the industry’s part in the youth mental health crisis.
The under-the-microscope Australian outpost of private equity giant TPG, led by convicted negligent driver Joel Thickins, paid its 30 staff a whopping $62 million last year as business boomed and profit soared at the controversial firm.
The UN is set to gain greater financial flexibility after member states approved a four-year trial of new budget rules designed to prevent the cash shortages that have repeatedly threatened the world body’s ability to operate.
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Yonhap) -- A U.S. House committee on Tuesday released a report accusing South Korea of "discriminatory attacks" on e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. and other American companies, claiming the Asian country's treatment of them violates last year's bilateral trade deal.
MANILA, Philippines— The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI) has launched “Onward,” a project aimed at utilizing the untapped market of the country’s nonwoven textile industry.
By Farhad Ibragimov – lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at RUDN University, expert and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
The UAE government has said technology companies must make protecting children integral to their operations by linking effective age verification tools across platforms as a safety net.
Developments in artificial intelligence are outpacing scientific understanding and government policy, meaning there are no guarantees the technology will not cause catastrophic harm, a United Nations independent panel warned on Wednesday.
Nearly 1,000 pages detailing US President Donald Trump's financial information have been released, showing how much he made and what he invested in during his first year back in the White House.
For more than a century, PEF Israel Endowment Funds has channeled American donations to Israeli charities without drawing much attention to itself. Its president had never sat for an interview. Then Congress accused the fund of helping finance a campaign to bring down the Israeli government.
The country has finally achieved its ambition to become an upper-middle income economy, following World Bank’s reclassification, citing its broad-based economic expansion.
The country has finally achieved its ambition to become an upper-middle income economy, following World Bank’s reclassification, citing its broad-based economic expansion.
The Trump administration has decided not to renew its trilateral trade pact with Canada and Mexico, instead opting to conduct annual reviews of the treaty that President Donald Trump once called "the best agreement we've ever made."
Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler (24) dunks during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Oct. 27, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Anna Fuder, File)
The global race to rebuild depleted oil inventories will not be enough to offset a massive glut that’s coming to the market next year, as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appears to be headed toward normalization, according to Goldman Sachs commodity strategists.
AFTER years of working in the advertising industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and returning home to build his own enterprise, former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Rhobert Fadero formally secured support from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-Batangas in upgrading his advertising business through t…
AS the Philippines continues to grapple with questions around economic recovery and long-term growth, Penguin Random House Southeast Asia is proud to publish "Twin Plagues: How Duterte and Covid-19 Wrecked the Philippine Economy" by economist and public intellectual JC Punongbayan.
Global ports operator DP World has launched a new distribution centre in Egypt that is expected to streamline logistical operations in the Arab world's most populous nation.
FINANCE Secretary Frederick Go has a new obsession — lowering the country’s high digital transaction costs. He is pushing for reforms that would align fees across public and private payment channels and slash charges from their present high levels.
NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic member of Congress is calling for the federal government to investigate the growing “rent now, pay later” industry, saying Americans may not understand the fees and cost structure of these products as the services become more widely available.