Apple Inc. takes Chinese consumer tastes into account when it designs many of its products, Chief Executive Tim Cook said, underscoring the country’s importance to the iPhone maker. The company considers
Taylor Swift has Apple changing its tune. Hours after the pop superstar criticized the giant tech company in an open letter posted online, Apple announced Sunday (yesterday Macau time) that it will pay royalties to
Mozambique’s foreign debt amounted to USD6.9 billion at the end of the second half of 2014, which represents an annual increase of 17.5 percent, according to a statement on the
South Korea and China overtook Portugal as the leading suppliers to Angola in the first quarter of 2015, according to a quick fact sheet from the Angolan National Statistics Institute. The
China’s state-run lottery raised more than RMB100bn (USD16.3bn) for sports and welfare projects last year but a report from a top government think-tank has raised serious questions about where the
Yertay Nussipzhanov is confident a Chinese movie that caught his eye at the Shanghai International Film Festival will be his company’s next hit. The Kazakhstani producer for REC Media was full
Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town held an annual dog meat festival yesterday despite international criticism of the event as cruel and unhygienic. The Yulin government distanced itself from the festival
Typhoon Kujira, the eighth typhoon of 2015, made landfall in south China’s Hainan Province yesterday evening, bringing heavy rain to the drought-hit island. The storm landed in the coastal city
Warnings are appearing on Instagram accounts in North Korea that claim access to the popular photo-sharing app is being denied and the site blacklisted for harmful content. Opening the app with
The Taliban launched a complex attack on the Afghan parliament yesterday, with a suicide car bomber striking at the entrance and gunmen battling police as lawmakers were meeting inside to
An Indonesian court yesterday denied the final appeal of a French national who faces execution for drug offenses, setting the stage for diplomatic retaliation by France after executions of other
Nearly 150 people have died from heatstroke in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in the last two days, officials said yesterday. Hospital reports confirm at least 148 deaths,
A much-awaited United Nations report into the 2014 Gaza war released yesterday found that both Israel and the Palestinians may have committed war crimes. The commission said it gathered “substantial information
The Al-Jazeera journalist who was detained in Berlin on an Egyptian arrest warrant has been released from custody, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutors’ office said yesterday. Stefan Stoehr said Ahmed
The European Union launched a naval operation yesterday to try to stop human-traffickers from bringing migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe in unseaworthy boats, a lucrative and at times deadly
Eurozone finance ministers broke off talks yesterday without an agreement on Greece’s bailout, saying they aim to reach a deal later this week that might keep the country from defaulting and
It is the second time Pope John Paul II - who was formerly Archbishop of Krakow - has returned to his native Poland since he became head of the Roman
Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last week that a medical marijuana patient who was fired
Baseball and softball remain on course to get back into the Olympics. Squash, karate, surfing and four other sports are in contention to get into the games for the first
Bankrupt club Parma will have to play under a new name in the fourth tier of Italian football after no buyer was found by yesterday’s deadline, completing the fall of
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