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by Thomas URBAIN Agence France-Presse NEW YORK, United States – Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its new Galaxy S8 smartphones, incorporating the virtual assistant Bixby, as the market leader seeks to rebound from a chaotic handset recall and a corruption scandal. The South Korean giant’s mobile chief DJ Koh told a New York event the Galaxy S8 and S8+ handsets marked “a new era of smartphone design.” Fitted with screens of 5.8 and 6.2 inches, the […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets fell Monday and the dollar struggled on fears the collapse of Donald Trump’s repeal of Obamacare could mean he will struggle to push through his promised tax-cut and infrastructure spending policies. In a severe early blow to the new administration, the healthcare reform was pulled Friday as it failed to garner enough support among Trump’s Republican party, who have a majority in both houses of Congress. While […]
The European Union (EU) has committed some 6.1 million euros to the Philippines under phase four of the trade-related and technical assistance project. EU Ambassador to the Philippines Franz Jessen on Tuesday, March 28, confirmed this during the closing ceremony of the TRTA-3 in Pasig City. The EU envoy said that the support under TRTA-4 will be for the next four years. The EU and the Philippines started the TRTA in 2005. The TRTA-3, which ran from […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The runway at London’s Stansted airport was temporarily closed on Tuesday after a protest organizers said was aimed at stopping deportations to Nigeria. Eight inbound flights were diverted after the runway was closed at around 10:00 p.m. (2100 GMT) “while police dealt with a number of individuals who had entered a remote area of the airfield,” an airport spokesperson said. “The situation was quickly contained but the police carried out […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Samsung announced Monday it would sell some Note 7 smartphones that were recalled for safety reasons as refurbished devices, in an effort to manage its stockpile in an “environmentally friendly” manner. The South Korean giant, the world’s largest smartphone maker, said it would sell Note 7s as “refurbished phones or rental phones,” after consultations with regulators in various markets. Samsung recalled an estimated four million of the flagship smartphones over concerns […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s new £1 coin with the symbols of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland goes into circulation from Tuesday on the eve of the launch of a Brexit process that has put national unity in doubt. The 12-sided coin is the first change to the shape of the £1 coin since its introduction in 1983. Britain’s finance ministry said the new coin would be “the most secure of its kind […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Shares in Toshiba plunged Monday on a report that said its loss-hit United States nuclear unit could be placed into bankruptcy protection as early as this week. Westinghouse Electric could file for Chapter 11 on Tuesday, while the troubled unit is eyeing Korea Electric Power to help with a subsequent restructuring, Japan’s Nikkei business daily said, without citing sources. The two firms have an existing technology partnership. Toshiba’s Tokyo-listed stock opened […]
by Roland JACKSON / Jean-Baptiste OUBRIER Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Worries are whirring in Britain’s smaller financial centers — which together employ far more people than the glamorous City of London — that the looming EU departure will lead to heavy job losses. In Manchester’s buzzing finance district of Spinningfields, a worker at an insurance company said he thought it would have “a huge impact”. “Business are going to pull out, […]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Reuters) — New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English on Friday (March 24) announced a renewed push to promote free trade in his first major trade policy announcement since taking over as leader last December. New Zealand’s $180 billion economy depends on exports, and the country lobbied hard in favour of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. It wants to push for an expansion of a free-trade agreement with China at a meeting with […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The world’s biggest smartphone maker Samsung, assailed by a shambolic recall and embroiled in South Korea’s wide-ranging corruption scandal, on Friday backed away from a planned corporate restructuring. Following the embarrassing recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and under pressure from activist shareholders to improve corporate governance, Samsung Electronics said last year that it was considering splitting the company in two. Its vice-chairman Lee Jae-Yong, the heir to the […]
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday (March 24) that Beijing and Canberra should extend free trade to more sectors and defended China’s stance on the disputed South China Sea. Li, the first sitting premier to visit Australia in 11 years, said China will now accept chilled beef exports from all licensed exporters. China is already Australia’s largest trading partner, business that has been propelled by the wide-ranging free trade agreement […]
CANBERRA, Australia (AFP) — Australia urged China Thursday to press ahead with economic reforms as Premier Li Keqiang began a trade-focused visit amid growing fears of a US slide towards protectionism. China is Australia’s largest trade partner and its economic importance has grown in the Donald Trump era after the US president ripped into Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a decorum-breaking phone call, fraying relations. Turnbull said he hoped China and Australia could sign […]
