Xiaomi, one of many world’s largest producers of smartphones, needs to develop into a severe participant within the fiercely aggressive EV business, at present dominated by Elon Musk’s Tesla and the Warren Buffett-backed BYD. Its technique? Make investments billions of {dollars}—ten times more than its opponents—into its first prototype. Xiaomi has teased its enlargement to…
© Reuters. New report reveals CEOs make 2.8 instances greater than CFOs A brand new report launched at this time reveals that CEOs make 2.8 instances greater than CFOs, though the hole is narrowing. Titled “CFOs and the C-Suite 2023,” a brand new CFO-focused report launched by Datarails confirmed that the compensation of CFOs lags…
Chileans on Sunday rejected a brand new structure that may have pulled the nation to the correct, doubtless ending a turbulent four-year process to switch their nationwide constitution with little to indicate for it. Greater than 55 p.c voted to reject the proposed textual content, with 77 p.c of the votes counted. It’s the second…
Breadcrumb Path Hyperlinks News Economy Economic system will sluggish at begin of recent yr, however choose up later Printed Dec 16, 2023 • Final up to date 52 minutes in the past • 3 minute learn Financial institution of Canada governor Tiff Macklem is more likely to begin chopping rates of interest in 2024, says Deloitte…
outcome on China’s annual nationwide civil service examination is a requirement for any Chinese language candidate who desires to be thought-about for the tens of hundreds of vacant civil service jobs that the federal government seeks to fill yearly. Lots of the vacant positions are reserved for latest Chinese language graduates. When 22-year-old latest graduate…
The Australia Letter is a weekly e-newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by electronic mail. I began working for the Occasions’s Australia bureau in 2020, writing tales from my kitchen desk — my makeshift workplace in a locked-down Melbourne. The theme that ran by way of lots of the tales I…
Times Insider explains who we’re and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes collectively. I’ve attended Hollywood awards ceremonies and watched couture-clad A-listers stroll the crimson carpet, however I’ve by no means seen anybody look as glamorous as Arti Kumari on the day of her wedding in Bihar, India. For…
After a collection of Quran burnings in Scandinavia brought on uproar in Muslim communities, Denmark on Thursday banned the “improper treating” of non secular texts in public. Beneath a new law handed by Parliament, these discovered responsible of the crime will be fined or sentenced to as much as two years in jail. “Quran burnings…
4/4 © Reuters. Singer/songwriter Taylor Swift seems on the quilt of Time Journal’s 2023 “Person of the Year” version, in a picture launched in New York Metropolis, U.S. December 6, 2023. Pictures by Inez and Vinoodh for TIME/Handout through REUTERS 2/4 By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – After launching a record-shattering international tour and turning into…
Time journal’s Particular person of the Yr is Taylor Swift — as a result of on this period, who else might it have probably been? The journal introduced its 2023 choose on Wednesday. The 33-year-old singer beat out Barbie, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and even King Charles III for the spot (although Swift, too, is…
ANCIENT Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Maya, China’s Qing dynasty – these civilisations all shone brightly of their time. But, in each case, the glory days have been adopted by collapse. This appears to be the inevitable trajectory of any tradition. What’s extra, it appears to be like like Western civilisation is experiencing this destiny proper…
When Mike Massimino was six years previous in Lengthy Island, New York, he noticed astronauts as superheroes and held them up on a pedestal. The summer season of 1969, he watched wide-eyed on the tv as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the primary steps on the moon and remembers considering, “They’re going to be…
In people, nodding off for a couple of seconds is a transparent signal of inadequate sleep – and may be harmful in some conditions, reminiscent of when driving a automotive. However a brand new research printed on Thursday finds chinstrap penguins snooze 1000’s of instances per day, accumulating their day by day sleep requirement of…
Former gang member John Turscak charged with tried homicide and different prices following assault. A jail inmate in the USA has been charged with tried homicide within the stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the previous police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd. Chauvin was attacked final month within the legislation library of the Federal Correctional Establishment…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses his sentencing listening to and the choose as he awaits his sentence after being convicted of homicide within the dying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021 in a nonetheless imag By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal inmate was…
