A Thai F-16 fighter jet bombed targets in Cambodia on Thursday, both sides said, as weeks of tension over a border dispute escalated. Str | Afp | Getty Images A Thai F-16 fighter jet bombed targets in Cambodia on Thursday, both sides said, as weeks of tension over a border dispute escalated into clashes that have killed at least two civilians….
BINZHOU, CHINA – JULY 11, 2021 – Senior citizens rest in Binzhou, East China’s Shandong Province, July 11, 2021. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China is planning to offer subsidy coupons to seniors in a rare use of direct fiscal support as Beijing seeks to ease the financial strain on its aging population…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 23, 2025. NYSE S&P 500 futures were little changed on Wednesday night after the benchmark notched another record close, fueled by hopes for progress on trade deals. Futures tied to the index climbed 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were about 0.4% higher….
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and U.S. President Donald Trump. Elizabeth Frantz | Nathan Howard | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve on Thursday, the White House said, escalating his pressure campaign against Chairman Jerome Powell. This is the first time in nearly two decades that an American president has…
Lan Ho, founder and CEO of Fat Miilk. Courtesy of Lan Ho Lan Ho was working as a retail pharmacist at Walgreens earning about $120,000 a year, before she decided to quit her job to start a coffee company. Getting the pharmacist role was no easy feat. She had gone through a decade of higher education,…
An Android character is displayed in front of a building on the Google headquarters campus on July 23, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Investors can have a reputation of being penny pinchers. For one, they tend to push up share prices on layoff announcements because of the associated cost savings….
Japan’s Topix hits record high as Asia-Pacific trading starts Japan’s broad-based Topix rose 1.2% to hit a record high in early Asia trading hours, data from LSEG showed. The benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.09%, extending gains from Wednesday following the announcement of Japan’s trade deal with the U.S. South Korea’s Kospi rose 1.17% at the open,…
View across the Hangang River in Seoul, South Korea. Universal History Archive | Universal Images Group | Getty Images South Korea avoided a technical recession as its economy expanded 0.6% from the previous quarter, according to advance estimates, beating expectations. This was higher than the 0.5% expected by economists polled by Reuters, and a reversal…
In 2019, just after her 30th birthday, Aleese Lightyear left a career in reality TV production behind to teach English as a second language in China. At the time, Lightyear was earning around $100,000 a year, working eight months out of the year. “I was living check to check, which sucked. My last few years…
A line-up of Duck World’s flock of rubber ducks. Duck World | Duck World If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck — then it could be one of the rubber specimens lining the shelves of Duck World, a string of colorful stores that are staying afloat as hundreds of…
