The World Trade Organisation on Tuesday largely faulted South Korea in a final ruling over anti-dumping duties slapped on imports of industrial pneumatic valves imported from Japan. The WTO’s Appellate Body mostly upheld a previous ruling finding that Seoul’s anti-dumping duties on Japanese pneumatic valves violated some international trade rules. It requested that South Korea “bring its measures found … ...

Photo: In this May 15, 2019, file photo, founder of Alibaba group Jack Ma arrives for the Tech for Good summit in Paris. Beijing, Sep 10 : Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China’s online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world’s biggest e-commerce company Tuesday at a time when its fast-changing industry faces uncertainty amid ...

Photo: Protestors argue in parliament square in London, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. London, Sep 10 : The simmering showdown between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Britain’s Parliament over Brexit came to a head as lawmakers delivered three defeats to the government’s plans for leaving the European Union, before being sent home early Tuesday for a contentious five-week suspension of the ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to meet with Irish leader Leo Varadkar in search of a compromise on the simmering Brexit crisis. The two are to meet in Dublin Monday morning for the first time since Johnson took power in July. Varadkar has said he does not expect a breakthrough in the impasse over how the Irish border will ...

India’s attempt to become the first nation to land a spacecraft near the Moon’s unexplored south pole has apparently ended in failure. The Chandrayaan-2 approached the Moon as normal until an error occurred about 2.1km (1.3 miles) from the surface, officials said. India’s Space Research Organisation (Isro) said it lost contact seconds before the ship was expected to land.India would ...

Researchers argue that many studies indicating the effect of radiofrequency radiation get published only because they are interesting A lot has been said about the radiation caused by smartphone and as 5G is being rolled out across the world, concerns about the negative effects of technology are also on the rise. A study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal ...

The Vikram lander of the Chandrayaan-2 mission has moved away from the main spacecraft, and closer to the moon, lowering itself into an orbit that was 104 km from the lunar surface at the nearest point and 128 km at the furthest. The lander had separated itself from the main spacecraft on Monday and had started moving independently, though in ...

The UK government is expected to table a motion to hold a general election on 14 October if it is defeated by MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit on Tuesday. Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not want an election, but progress with the EU would be “impossible” if they won. Tory rebels are joining forces with Labour ...

Photo: Anti Brexit protesters from ‘Stop the Coup’ movement demonstrate outside Downing Street in London, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. London, Sept 01 : Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s provocative decision to suspend the British Parliament for a time before the country’s deadline for leaving the European Union came under fire Saturday in London and other cities where protesters took to the ...

Trump-appointed new NASA chief announced Pluto is a planet again. (Image of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015) Dhaka, Aug 30 : Pluto was officially downgraded from planetary status more than a decade ago by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) when it established three main categories of objects in the solar system — planets, dwarf planets, and ...