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Toyota posts record profit as hybrid sales accelerate
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor on Wednesday reported a record net profit of 4.9 trillion yen ($31.8 billion) for the financial year that ended in March, double that of the previous 12 months amid a weak yen and accelerating demand for hybrid vehicles.
TikTok tycoon Zhang Yiming now calls Singapore home – as do many Chinese tech titans these days
The billionaire spent much of 2022 overseas, using Singapore as a primary base, The Information reported at the time, fuelling speculation he had applied for foreign citizenship. TikTok included Zhang’s status in a section outlining influential figures at the company.
South China Sea: recording of Philippine deal on Second Thomas Shoal simply ‘propaganda’, analysts say
The latest threat by China to release an audio recording of a top Filipino navy official agreeing to a “new model” to address a maritime territorial row between both sides is simply “propaganda” by Beijing to win global opinion, according to observers.
He was a propaganda mastermind who shaped North Korea’s Kim family cult of personality. Now, he’s met his end
Kim, who had been in poor health for several years, died on Tuesday, the official Korean Central News Agency reported, saying he devoted his life to the “sacred struggle for defending and strengthening the ideological purity of our revolution”.
In Kuala Lumpur, children go hungry as food inflation squeezes poor despite Malaysia ‘getting richer’
One in every two children in low-income households in Kuala Lumpur eat fewer than three meals a day, according to a United Nations report published on Wednesday, as high inflation forces the Malaysian capital city’s poorest to forgo food or rely on low-nutrition options like instant noodles.
Dementia cases are on the rise — avoid these 12 risks to keep your brain healthy
A global mental health crisis is on the horizon — dementia.