Wharton's Jeremy Siegel says Fed needs to make an emergency rate cut
Wharton's Jeremey Siegel on Monday called on the Federal Reserve to make an emergency 75 basis-point cut in the federal funds rate after Friday's disappointing jobs report.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age 97, according to a Chinese university and a research center.
Japan Needs Foreign Workers. It’s Just Not Sure It Wants Them to Stay.
Ngu Thazin wanted to leave her war-torn country for a better future. She set her sights on Japan.
Thailand's establishment silences voices of change
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is professor at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Political Science and a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies in Bangkok.
Violence in Bangladesh leaves many people dead, hundreds injured as protests continue
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A new round of violence in Bangladesh has left more than 20 people dead and hundreds injured as student protesters clashed with police and ruling party activists on Sunday, officials and media reports said.
Bangladesh students call for nationwide civil disobedience, halt to remittances
Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem last month that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst unrest of Hasina’s 15-year tenure.
Will Indonesia’s desire to host the 2036 Olympics go up in flames over economics, geopolitics?
During the visit, the pair met International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach to reaffirm Indonesia’s ambition to host the games.
Britain cancels $1.7 billion of computing projects in setback for global AI ambitions
The U.K. government has canceled £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) worth of computing infrastructure projects, in a big setback to the country's ambitions to become a world leader in artificial intelligence.