Chanel creative director Virginie Viard added a streak of Old Hollywood glamour to a slinky collection for spring and summer, sent down a catwalk lined with enormous screens projecting dreamy, black-and-white images of formal gardens and plush interiors. One of...
Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) announced a series of new ad formats on Tuesday, aimed at creating new revenue streams for the short video and business messaging products that it has identified as key to growth this year. In a blog post, the...
Alphabet Inc’s Google will set up its first cloud region in Greece, the company said on Thursday, giving a boost to the country’s efforts to become a world cloud computing hub. The deal is estimated to contribute some 2.2 billion...
Tesla (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk showed off on Friday a prototype of its humanoid robot ‘Optimus’, predicting the electric vehicle maker would be able to produce millions and sell them for under $20,000 – less than a third of the price of...
Nestle (NESN.S) will spend more than 1 billion Swiss francs ($1 billion) by 2030 on efforts to source coffee sustainably, the food company said on Tuesday, more than double its previous pledge. The move provides more evidence of how major consumer goods...
The weakening Malaysian ringgit , which is at its lowest since 1998, was not a reflection of the state of the nation’s economy, its central bank governor said on Monday. Bank Negara Governer Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus said the growth...
Philippine annual inflation quickened to 6.9% in September, hitting its fastest pace in four years, firming up expectations the central bank will hike rates further before the year ends. The September inflation rate, which was above the 6.7% forecast in...
It was the closing stages of the match, a soccer derby in Indonesia’s East Java province, and 29-year-old spectator Ahmad Nizar Habibi said he had a gut feeling things were about to turn ugly. “I wanted to leave, but suddenly...
Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob called for an early election on Monday, hoping to win a stronger mandate for his party and stabilise the rocky political landscape that has plagued the country over the last four years. The ruling...
Roger Federer’s departure from tennis has raised the question of retirement of the other two members of the revered ‘Big Three’ but Novak Djokovic has assured that he does not feel “old enough” to consider bringing down the curtain yet....
