SEOUL: Samsung announced Thursday it will inspect units of its highly anticipated folding smartphone after some reviewers reported screen damage. A handful of US-based reporters were given the flagship Galaxy Fold phones, priced at $1,980, ahead of the model’s official release next week, and they reported screen issues within days
HONG KONG: Asian markets fell Thursday as investors in most countries wound down going into the long Easter break, with positive comments on the China-US trade talks and healthy Chinese growth unable to fire buying activity. Donald Trump’s key trade negotiator Robert Lighthizer is reportedly preparing to visit Beijing at
ROME: Two Italian students have been told to pay a joint fine of 27 million euros, Italian media reported Wednesday, after being accused of letting a barbecue start a forest fire. Prosecutors say the two 22-year-olds, who dispute the case, lit a barbecue with a group of friends near Lake
TAIPEI: A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, disrupting traffic and injuring 17 people. In the capital Taipei, highrises swayed while some panicked schoolchildren fled their classrooms in eastern Yilan county, according to reports. The quake was felt across the island and a highway connecting Yilan
WELLINGTON: The world’s fattest parrot, the critically endangered kakapo, has enjoyed a record breaking breeding season, New Zealand scientists said yesterday, with climate change possibly aiding the species’ unique mating spree. Less than 50 years after the flightless nocturnal bird was thought to have been extinct, at least 75 chicks
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar al-Bashir to prison, a family source said Wednesday, as demonstrators keep up their sit-in outside the army complex calling for a swift transfer to civilian government. Following the dramatic end to Bashir’s rule of three decades last week, he was moved
TOKYO: You can’t hide your lying eyes: scientists have revealed that women can judge whether a man is likely to be unfaithful just by looking at his face but men are less able to spot a cheating woman. Researchers at the University of Western Australia took a group of 1,500
SYDNEY: A pet deer killed a man and left a woman critically injured at a rural property in Australia on Wednesday, police said. Emergency services were called to the outback home in Victoria state early in the morning and found the badly gored couple, both aged 46. “The man died
GABORONE: Botswana’s state-owned Okavango Diamond Company on Wednesday unveiled the biggest blue diamond ever discovered in the Southern Africa country. At 20.46 carats, the gem is one of the rarest stones in the world, and “sits in the very top bracket of all-time historical blue diamond finds”, the company said
TAIPEI: The boss of tech giant Foxconn said Wednesday he will be running for president of Taiwan – after securing the backing of a local Sea Goddess. Terry Gou, who announced this week he was stepping back from frontline operations at the Apple supplier, said he would seek the nomination
