SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) – Cambodia said Friday it has drafted its first law targeting online scam centers, after vowing to shut them down by the end of April. Cambodia is a major hub for scam operations, which extort money from victims online through bogus investment schemes and feigned romances.
Wall Street's losses deepened as the ongoing fallout from the war in Iran keeps pushing oil prices higher. After briefly easing early Friday, crude oil prices rose again, bringing the benchmark oil price back above $100 a barrel. The S&P 500 fell 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.3% and the Nasdaq composite dropped 0.9%.
George Russell praised his Mercedes as a “joy to drive” as he took pole for the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday to continue his team’s dominant start to the new era of Formula 1. Russell is the driver to beat in Shanghai after his dominant win in Australia last week. With teammate Kimi Antonelli qualifying second, 0.289 of a second down.
BEIJING (AP) – While much of the world’s attention is on the Iran war, that hasn’t stopped China from moving ahead with national priorities. Not that China doesn’t care about the war and its impact on energy supplies and geopolitics. But for the world’s second largest economy, its growing rivalry with the United States revolves around a different battle.
BEIJING (AP) – While much of the world’s attention is on the Iran war, that hasn’t stopped China from moving ahead with national priorities with global repercussions. Not that China doesn’t care about the war and its impact on energy supplies and geopolitics. But for the world’s second largest economy, it revolves around the development of the cutting-edge technologies.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter fired pistols during an inspection of a light munitions factory, state media photos showed Thursday, as he pushes to modernize conventional forces after years of focus on nuclear weapons.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – A political party created just four years ago and led by an ex-rapper has swept Nepal’s parliamentary poll, results published by the electoral commission on Thursday showed.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korean lawmakers on Thursday passed a law to implement a pledge of $350 billion in U.S. investments Seoul made last year to avoid the Trump administration’s highest tariffs.
BEIJING (AP) – China adopted a sweeping law Thursday to promote what it calls “ethnic unity,” a measure that critics say would further erode the rights of some minority groups as authorities cement a push toward assimilation.
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