In the first of a two-part special report, CNA Insider delves into the shadowy world of Southeast Asia-based scam syndicates, where sophisticated technology and psychological tactics are used on unsuspecting victims around the world. The twist? The people behind the screens could … | Continue reading
TOKYO :Japan's Kioxia Corp said on Friday it would slash wafer input volume for chip production by about 30 per cent at its Yokkaichi and Kitakami flash memory plants from October amid weakening global demand for electronic devices."The company will continue to review and adjust … | Continue reading
Singapore’s National Stadium has hosted many events, from football matches to concerts. How many times, though, has its iconic dome been cleaned since it was built? CNA Insider gets access to what is a massive undertaking. | Continue reading
Southeast Asia-focused cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex said it had filed for bankruptcy protection in Singapore, becoming the latest victim of the global downturn in digital currencies. Singapore-based Zipmex resumed withdrawals last week, a day after suspending them last Wednesda … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: After a decade of endless upward growth, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp reported its first quarterly revenue drop on Wednesday (Jul 27). Meta Pla | Continue reading
LONDON : Shoppers at a supermarket chain in southern England are being tracked by facial recognition cameras, prompting a legal complaint by a privacy rights group.Big Brother Watch said Southern Co-operative's use of biometric scans in 35 stores across Portsmouth, Bournemouth, B … | Continue reading
MOSCOW: Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024, the newly appointed chief of Moscow's space agency told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (Jul 26). The announcement comes as tensions rage between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow's milita … | Continue reading
Payments giant Stripe, last valued at $95 billion, has cut the internal value of its shares by 28 per cent, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. High-flying tech valuations have come under pressure this year as investor sentiment w … | Continue reading
TOKYO: Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died of his injuries after he was shot at a campaign event in the western region of Nara on Friday (Jul 8), public broadcaster NHK reported. | Continue reading
SEOUL : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it has begun mass producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology, the first to do so globally, as it seeks new clients to catch far bigger rival TSMC in contract chip manufacturing.Compared with conventional 5-nanometre ch … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON: Twitter has agreed to pay US$150 million to settle allegations it misused private information, like phone numbers, to target advertising after telling users the information would be used for security reasons, according to court documents filed on Wednesday (May 25).Tw … | Continue reading
HONG KONG: Shanghai residents are turning to the blockchain to preserve memories of the city's month-long COVID-19 lockdown, minting videos, photos and artworks capturing their ordeal as non-fungible tok | Continue reading
TOKYO : Japan is aiming for a 20 per cent share of the global rechargeable battery market in 2030 by boosting global output capacity at Japanese companies nearly 10-fold to 600 gigawatt hours (GWh), the industry ministry said on Friday."We will step up our support to help the … | Continue reading
HONG KONG: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu, known as China's answer to Instagram, has kicked off a round of layoffs, a source familiar with the matter said, as the company joined other internet firms in retrenching.The layoffs were first reported on Thursday (Apr 21) by … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: It's a weekday afternoon during the March school holidays, and there's a steady stream of customers at Mr Pohl Chan's secondhand bookstore at Beauty World Centre. There are couples, parents with children and older men and women. Most of them don't leave empty-handed. A … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: On Dec 21, 2020, a Singapore Airlines cargo plane landed at Changi carrying Singapore's first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.Back then, local transmission of coro | Continue reading
:Instacart Inc on late Thursday cut its valuation by nearly 40per cent to about $24 billion due to recent market turbulence, in an unusual move that shows how public market volatility affects high-flying private companies.The new valuation marks a substantial drop from last March … | Continue reading
NEW DELHI: Indian teenage chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won praise Tuesday (Feb 22) for a stunning victory over world number one Magnus Carlsen in an online championship.Praggnanandhaa, 16, who in 2016 became the youngest international master in history at age 10, b … | Continue reading
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country's embattled opposition voices.UN rights experts warn the gateway, which will funnel all web traffic through a state-controlled entr … | Continue reading
AGII APOSTOLI, Greece: Until a few years ago, Agii Apostoli was a picturesque seaside village on the eastern coast of Evia, drawing a modest income from tourism and fishing.Now it is ringed by towering wind turbines whose night lights and whirring sounds are tantamount to daily " … | Continue reading
The chipmaking giant is failing to grow profits despite a global chip shortage. Its fall from glory can be traced back to when smartphones took off, says a business professor. | Continue reading
Apple Inc will require all customers and employees to wear masks at its U.S. retail stores, the iPhone maker said on Tuesday, as COVID-19 cases surge in the country.Last month, Apple had scrapped its mask mandate for customers at more than 100 of the company's about 270 stores ac … | Continue reading
MILAN :Stellantis plans to generate around 4 billion euros (US$4.5 billion) in additional annual revenue by 2026 and around 20 billion euros by 2030 from software-enabled products and subscriptions, the carmaker said on Tuesday.Presenting its long-term software strategy, the worl … | Continue reading
BERLIN: The incoming German government wants to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory from Mar 16 for people working in hospitals, nursing homes and other medical practices, according to a copy of draft legislation seen by Reuters on Sunday (Dec 5).Germany has been reticent about … | Continue reading
MILAN : Italy and France clinched an accord on Friday to strengthen their cooperation on space launchers as part of a broader bilateral treaty.Among the goals laid out in the bilateral treaty were pledges to reinforce military connections, including at an industrial level, a … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Plans for an upcoming solar project in Australia that can supply up to 15 per cent of Singapore’s electricity needs are gathering pace, with a global expert team assembled to deliver the multi-gigawatt scale project. The A$30 billion (S$30.15 billion) Sun Cable project … | Continue reading
TOKYO: Japan's new prime minister on Sunday (Oct 17) said the planned mass disposal of wastewater stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cannot be delayed, despite concerns from local residents.Speaking at his first visit to the facility since taking office, Fumio … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: On closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage, a masked man in dark clothes scurries across an empty road.He then disappears into the corner of the frame, before being spotted scuttling down a narrow street.He wouldn't have known it then, but he was less than 17 hours aw … | Continue reading
SYDNEY: CNN said it is preventing Australians from accessing its Facebook pages after a court ruled that publishers can be liable for defamation in public comment sections and the social media firm refused to help it disable comments in the country.The move makes CNN, which is ow … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: It narrowly averted a cash crunch last year but Evergrande, one of China’s biggest real estate developers, is now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy again.The cash-strapped property titan has warned that it may not be able to meet its staggering debts of more than US … | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: A proposed law to prevent, detect and disrupt the use of hostile information campaigns and local proxies by foreign entities intending to interfere in domestic politics was introduced by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in Parliament on Monday (Sep 13).The Foreign In … | Continue reading
SHANGHAI :China cracked down on what it described as a "chaotic" celebrity fan culture on Friday, barring platforms from publishing popularity lists and regulating the sale of fan merchandise after a series of scandals involving artists. The country's top internet watchdog said i … | Continue reading
TOKYO: Sharing videos from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on social media is not allowed, even for athletes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday (Aug 5) as it looked to protect broadcasters' rights.Jamaican double gold medallist sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah … | Continue reading
World Hepatitis Day is observed on Jul 28 every year and this year’s theme is “Hepatitis Can’t Wait”. Hepatitis C elimination in Malaysia may be ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: A Singapore study has found that the COVID-19 vaccine provides about 69 per cent protection against infection by the Delta variant of ... | Continue reading
:Chinese ride hailing company Didi Global Inc raised US$4.4 billion in its U.S. IPO on Tuesday, pricing it at the top of its indicated range and ... | Continue reading
TOKYO: Japan will lift the state of emergency on Sunday (Jun 20) for nine prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka, public broadcaster NHK reported ... | Continue reading
Shares of online video platform Vimeo, which was spun off from InterActiveCorp, were down 9.5 per cent on their debut on Nasdaq on Tuesday. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: A locally developed COVID-19 breath test that can generate results within one minute has received provisional authorisation from ... | Continue reading
"Not quite" true that the situation in Singapore is "getting very bad", says the health minister. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: With consumers and businesses gobbling up more data in an increasingly connected world, data centres are in hot demand. Packed with ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: From Thursday (Apr 29), users of Singapore's PayNow and Thailand's PromptPay will be able to send up to S$1,000 or THB25,000 daily ... | Continue reading
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it has won a deal to sell the U.S. Army augmented reality headsets based on its HoloLens product and backed by ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Forgot to bring your OCBC ATM card? You will soon be able to check your bank account balances or withdraw cash by scanning your face at ... | Continue reading
SoftBank Group Corp said on Friday it had reached a settlement with WeWork's special committee and the company's co-founder and former chief ... | Continue reading
SINGAPORE: Potato starch powder has been pinpointed as the source of a explosion at an industrial building in Tuas on Wednesday (Feb 24), which ... | Continue reading
The vendor, Accellion, says this incident is part of a "wider concerted attack" against users of their file-sharing system. | Continue reading
NEW DELHI: The digital platform anchoring India's massive COVID-19 vaccination drive will be able to handle up to 10 million shots daily to meet ... | Continue reading