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Smartphones and weaker face-to-face relationships could be contributing to plunging birth rates worldwide, particularly among young people, as global fertility is declining at a record pace, the Financial Times has reported, citing researchers and demographic data.
Smartphones and weaker face-to-face relationships could be contributing to plunging birth rates worldwide, particularly among young people, as global fertility is declining at a record pace, the Financial Times has reported, citing researchers and demographic data.
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Welcome to Brisbane Times’ Queensland public sector column, Public Circus. This week: a former deputy premier and chief spinner reunite, a council U-turn on e-bikes, arts funding funny business, and QPAC board curiosities.
The UAE has introduced a unified salary payment deadline for all private sector staff, mandating that wages must be paid by the first day of every month starting from June 1.
PwC International seeks removal from case as liquidators press claims against global arm as well as the Hong Kong and mainland China units
PwC International seeks removal from case as liquidators press claims against global arm as well as the Hong Kong and mainland China units
Proposed IRS data sharing with immigration authorities and ICE raids have made filing risky for those who are undocumented
Rising demand for exotic pets is pushing many gibbon species to extinction, with their strong family bonds making them especially vulnerable to the brutal trade
Seizing on the UAE’s Opec exit and a new EU trade pact, India’s PM looks to lock-in long-term energy supply and economic dividends
Seizing on the UAE’s Opec exit and a new EU trade pact, India’s PM looks to lock-in long-term energy supply and economic dividends
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Analysts expect the company’s AI marketing services base to steadily grow to reduce declines in advertising revenue and boost profits
Analysts expect the company’s AI marketing services base to steadily grow to reduce declines in advertising revenue and boost profits
Essendon star Zach Merrett is again weighing up his future at Tullamarine, with rival clubs increasingly of the belief the former captain will seek a trade at season’s end after last year’s failed push to join Hawthorn.
Freshly cashed-up with a new $1.8 million war chest, PLC Resources has wasted no time putting the drill bit to work, kicking off a maiden reverse circulation drilling program at its Rochefort gold prospect in Western Australia’s prolific Murchison region.
Jim Chalmers’ fifth federal budget handed down last week was the worst-received economic statement since the Resolve Political Monitor began tracking voter perceptions of the budget in May 2021.
Felicien Kabuga, once among Rwanda’s richest businessmen and later accused of helping finance the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, has died in detention while awaiting further legal proceedings before a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague.
In Qatar, a desert peninsula protruding into the Persian Gulf, natural gas turned the country from a pearl-diving backwater into one of the world’s wealthiest nations.
Augustus Minerals has topped up its war chest with a $2.5 million placement to fast-track a second round of drilling at its Music Well gold project near Leonora in WA, after a stunning maiden drill campaign recently hit wide zones of gold mineralisation.
Seoul is considering using a rarely used emergency power to halt a strike that could cost the economy US$67 billion
Seoul is considering using a rarely used emergency power to halt a strike that could cost the economy US$67 billion
Trump warning over peace talks drives up crude price as UK gilts hit by uncertainty over Starmer leadership
PARIS — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday urged allies to sanction Iran as peace talks between the two countries continue to stall.
The renewed pullback in Chinese EV stocks follows a brief rally that was driven by expectations of rising demand for alternative energy
The renewed pullback in Chinese EV stocks follows a brief rally that was driven by expectations of rising demand for alternative energy
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Brent rose 1.78 per cent to $111.20, while WTI gained 2.08% to $107.60, as risk assets weakened.
While Japan remains the most developed market, property investors are finding new opportunities elsewhere in the region
While Japan remains the most developed market, property investors are finding new opportunities elsewhere in the region
Aguia Resources has just kicked a major goal in South America, securing the final and all-important operating licence for its Tres Estradas phosphate project in southern Brazil and immediately kicking off mining operations.
Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote visited Ethiopia over the weekend as part of efforts to deepen the group’s investment in the country, including the development of a large-scale urea fertilizer plant in Gode.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is pressing Brussels to loosen the EU’s fiscal rules to help governments absorb the economic shock unleashed by the Iran war and soaring energy prices.
U.K. gilt yields steadied on Monday after coming under heavy selling pressure last week, as traders gauge whether a challenge to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership poses a threat to the country's fiscal stability.
South Korean stocks closed higher Monday, rebounding from a steep decline the previous session, as investors scooped up major chipmakers, including market heavyweight Samsung Electronics. The local currency gained ground against the greenback.
Inquiry into black market hears cost of destroying vapes has also soared, with some requiring manual dismantling
Critica Limited’s latest metallurgical testwork has produced a third mixed rare earth oxide from its Jupiter project in WA’s Mid West, materially improving product quality from previous tests.
U.S. Treasury yields continued their ascent on Monday as global bond markets sold off amid concerns of resurgent inflationary pressures.
With first-tier cities seeing price upticks, analysts are optimistic that the struggling property sector is showing signs of bottoming out
With first-tier cities seeing price upticks, analysts are optimistic that the struggling property sector is showing signs of bottoming out
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China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is rich in coal, putting it at the center of a growing coal-to-chemicals industry in the country. (China Daily via Reuters)
King River Resources is breathing new life into one of Western Australia’s forgotten goldfields, lining up drilling and geophysics at its historic Mindoolah project while eyeing a sizeable inventory of potentially gold-bearing stockpiles sitting at surface.
SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks closed higher Monday, rebounding from a steep decline the previous session, as investors scooped up major chipmakers, including market heavyweight Samsung Electronics. The local currency gained ground against the greenback.
Mark Latham’s ex-partner Nathalie Matthews has denied receiving insider trading tips and a $145,000 payment from controversial billionaire WiseTech global founder Richard White.
SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- Labor disputes over performance-based pay and profit sharing were spilling over to major South Korean industries Monday, with companies like Samsung Biologics Co. and Kakao Corp. facing standoffs with unionized workers.
Kaiser Reef has fired up a major multi-pronged exploration and development assault at its Maldon gold project in Victoria.
Six major business groups warn prolonged walkout could disrupt chip exports, weaken investment, hurt Korea’s broader economy
A fund dedicated to supporting projects aimed at promoting South Korea's industrial growth and artificial intelligence transformation of the manufacturing industry will be created, with an anchor investment of at least 1 trillion won ($665.5 million), the industry ministry said Monday.
South Korea will invest 50.4 billion won ($33.5 million) over the next five years to develop core technologies needed in artificial intelligence-based humanoid robots with universities and local tech companies, the science ministry said Monday.