Hundreds of kilometres west, health workers are using an AI app called Shishu Maapan. It estimates a newborn’s weight and other measurements from a short video taken on a smartphone, replacing bulky…
While more severe than recent years, the scale of Indonesia’s forest and land fires so far this year remains well below that seen in 2015, when the country experienced one of its worst fire crises…
VIENNA: The US and its allies Britain, France and Germany are pushing other countries on the UN nuclear watchdog’s board to pass a resolution next week reporting Iran to the UN Security Council for…
MASSACHUSETTS: A judge declared a mistrial on Friday (Sep 4) in the high-profile case of an American woman, who killed her three children, but put his decision on hold to allow the defence to appeal…
LARGE US BUSINESS DELEGATION VISITED BEIJING Trump took 18 American executives, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Elon Musk, to China in May, the sources said. “My sense is that the Chinese … are…
SINGAPORE: Nine Singaporeans are still missing and unaccounted for in Nepal after devastating floods caused massive destruction last week, said Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Gan Siow Huang…
Local media reported that readings in Serian began to rise from 6pm on Thursday after haze conditions had shown signs of improvement over the preceding 24 hours. State capital Kuching recorded a…
Chinese authorities actively crack down on pyramid schemes. One of China’s most notorious pyramid schemes is the 1040 Sunshine Project, a sprawling multi-level marketing scam that became particularly…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main anti-graft body arrested lawmaker Namal Rajapaksa, the son of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, on Friday (Sep 4) in connection with a corruption probe into a 2013 Airbus…
Officials believe at least 900 people are trapped in tunnels related to six hydropower projects along the Trishuli river. For nine days, Shah sat in the tunnel’s darkness, where he chanted mantras…
MANILA: A Philippine court on Friday (Sep 4) issued an arrest warrant for Vice President Sara Duterte over an alleged death threat against the country’s president, with her defence team saying she…
NEW DELHI: An Air India flight that plunged last month, injuring passengers, suffered a temporary loss of hydraulic systems, but its pilot tested “non-negative” for psychoactive substances, Indian…
KATHMANDU: The scars of disaster stretch from one valley to the next. More than one week on from the devastating Aug 26 floods in north and central Nepal, there is still no road to reach the…
Earlier on Friday, Dix, president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, said teams at the Trishuli 3A hydropower project believed they had heard a faint response from…
KATHMANDU: The scars of disaster stretch from one valley to the next. More than one week on from the devastating Aug 26 floods in north and central Nepal, there is still no road to reach the…
But the Socialist leader slammed “unacceptable” Moroccan government comments about Ceuta since the crisis began in late July, in rare public criticism of neighbouring Rabat, which claims the north…
Reuters spoke to a dozen people – including government and military officials, engineers, survivors and relatives of missing workers – who described the efforts to search the tunnel networks of…
SEOUL: South Korea is preparing to deploy military assets to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and aims to dispatch them before the end of the year, according to media reports…
INVESTMENTS IN HUMANOID ROBOTS So why are billions being invested into building humanoids? The obsession with the human form may be the main culprit. We are building robots in our image not because…
Canada is now attempting its own approach. But without rare earths or other chokepoints, it is looking at other opportunities to turn targeted economic pain into disproportionate political pressure…
