‘It feels like a dream:’ Naomi Osaka earns first win at Wimbledon since 2018
CNN —
Asian news from France
Indonesia gets ‘wake-up call’ to step up sustainability efforts in nickel industry
In a rare admission, Indonesia’s government acknowledged on Friday the need to address sustainability in its nickel industry after German chemical giant BASF and French miner Eramet cancelled a US$2.6 billion nickel-cobalt refining complex project in the mineral-rich country.
Apple expands Vision Pro to more countries outside the U.S.
Apple's mixed reality headset, the Vision Pro, will become available in more countries outside of the U.S. on Friday.
South Korea's migrant workers caught in lithium battery plant fire
Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Seoul correspondent Steven Borowiec, about a deadly fire that broke out at a lithium-ion battery factory in South Korea last week.
South Korea ranks fourth globally in splurge purchases for ‘comfort, stress relief’: report
According to the Deloitte Consumer Signals Link Index released by Deloitte Korea on Thursday, South Koreans spend a monthly average of US$59 on splurge purchases, while the 20 countries’ average falls at US$41.
Hungary’s Orbán makes surprise visit to China after trips to Russia and Ukraine
BEIJING (AP) — Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is making a surprise visit to China on Monday after similar trips to Russia and Ukraine to discuss prospects for a peaceful settlement in Ukraine.
These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headlines when the gallery re-hung them in a women’s restroom to sidestep a legal ruling that said men could not be barred from viewing them.
China’s yuan, central bank performing well under stress, but US Fed rates adding to pressures
Prolonged high interest rates in the United States could introduce uncertainty to the monetary policy outlook of emerging economies, the world’s “bank for central banks” said, pointing to rising pressures on Asian currencies and capital outflows.