Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks
Japan scrapped every regulation requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes this week, catching up with the times 13 years after the country’s producers manufactured their last units.
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Vietnam opens cloud, data center market to foreign companies
HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam has decided that foreign investors can now own data centers in the country, after controversial storage rules opposed by Big Tech set off an explosion in demand that the domestic market has been unable to fill.
JPMorgan is bullish on this Southeast Asian country, cites opportunities in data centers
Data centers have been widely talked about and Malaysia is emerging as an attractive investment opportunity offering different sectors and ideas to play, according to JPMorgan.
China and Russia highlight ‘tectonic shifts in global politics’
Comments come at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit – a regional bloc that Moscow and Beijing see as a counterweight to US ‘hegemony’ on the world stage.
What a hung parliament in France could mean for markets
Initial indications on Sunday evening for the French parliamentary run-off vote threw up some big surprises, leaving political commentators contemplating a "hung parliament" scenario that could prove challenging for both policymaking and financial markets.
Putin hosts India’s Modi to deepen ties, but Ukraine looms over their relationship
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, seeking to deepen the relationship between the two nuclear powers at a time when NATO leaders gathered in Washington and Russia launched deadly missile attacks in Ukraine that hit a children's hospital.
Finding echoes of the Mongol empire as a country looks ahead
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — A towering statue of Genghis Khan dominates the landscape of rolling plains and endless skies outside Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar.
Who is Labour's Keir Starmer, the new leader of Britain?
LONDON — Britain elected its first Labour prime minister in 14 years, with a landslide victory for the opposition party during the July 4 elections.