February2024

Sugar and ethanol firm Raizen and Chinese automaker BYD are joining forces to create a network of 600 charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in eight Brazilian cities, the companies said on Friday. The firms aim...

On Friday, farmers demanding fair prices and reduced red tape stopped the border between Belgium and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, their French counterparts began removing blockades nationwide following additional concessions from the government. Protests by farmers have...

In an attempt to save hassles at the last minute, the government has once more extended the deadline for 2024 hajj registration to February 6. On Friday, the Religious Affairs Ministry sent a notification about this....

U.S. safety regulators have upgraded their probe into Tesla vehicles over power steering loss to an engineering analysis – a required step before the agency could demand a potential recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

In Bangladesh, cancer-related fatalities increased 6.98% in 2022 over 2020, as per the most recent statistics available from the Global Cancer Observatory (GCO). The International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World...

Billionaire financier Bao Fan has stepped down as head of investment bank China Renaissance, the company said Friday, almost a year after he was revealed to be cooperating in an investigation by authorities. Bao rose to...

Shares in Japanese lender Aozora Bank plunged for a second straight day Friday — wiping hundreds of billions of dollars off its market value — after the firm forecast a full-year net loss because of bad...

Asian markets rallied Friday, tracking a surge on Wall Street fuelled by bargain-buying from the previous day’s sell-off, while strong earnings from tech titans soothed worries about the impact of higher interest rates on bottom lines....

The government has authorized the import of 34,000 tons of potatoes from India via the Hili land port in an effort to control the soaring price of potatoes. The government has chosen to import potatoes in...

On Friday, after tea on the first day of their Test match in Colombo, Sri Lanka bowled Afghanistan out for 198. Left-arm seamer Vishwa Fernando claimed four wickets while Asitha Fernando and Prabath Jayasuriya took three...