“ BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira stated on Tuesday that the country’s inflation target should be set higher than 1%, as he prepared to meet with the central bank governor to negotiate a new target range. Pichai and Bank of Thailand (BOT) Governor Sethaput Suthiwartnarueput, along with other officials, are scheduled to … Read more
Good morning. Two tech billionaires started this week with egg on their face, and for once, it had nothing to do with a live product demo. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and NantHealth founder Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked, each at the eleventh hour, the U.S. presidential endorsements of Kamala Harris by the editorial boards of their newspapers, … Read more
Irish actor Paul Mescal has shared that he landed a role in Gladiator II after just a 30-minute Zoom call. Mescal discussed this on The Graham Norton Show, airing on BBC One this Friday. The 28-year-old will star alongside Denzel Washington in the sequel to Ridley Scott’s original Gladiator, which is set to be released … Read more
The leaders’ statements aimed to strengthen Western support for Ukraine in the long term, while the elephant in the room remained. During a Berlin news conference, US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz emphasized their “strong” transatlantic bond to the world. Biden referred to Germany as the “closest and most important ally” of … Read more