The price of bitcoin dipped below $23,000 over the weekend as investors digested the latest U.S. employment numbers and looked toward a batch of Federal Reserve member speeches. Bitcoin fell as low as ...
Crypto Market Sentiment Improves as Investors Await the Fed’s Next Move
This is different to the end of last year and the start of 2023, when investors were pulling money out of exchange-traded products and similar crypto investment vehicles, mainly down to a brutal bear ...
Crypto Ads Are Out at This Year’s Super Bowl
Busch, gave up its deal to be the exclusive alcohol shilled during the football game’s coveted commercial time, helping usher in a banner year for booze advertising. While the 2022 Super Bowl saw ...
Comfort women issue won’t be raised in Tokyo visit
Malacañang reiterated Monday that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will not raise the issue of World War II sexual slavery victims ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake live updates: Latest news from Turkey, Syria
The death toll is rising from a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit southeast Turkey and northern Syria early on Monday. Hundreds were killed in the two countries, thousands were injured and the toll was expected to rise further. ( read original story ...)
Turkey and Syria plead for disaster support as earthquake death toll rises above 2300
A powerful 7.8 magnitude quake rocked wide swathes of Turkey and Syria early on Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 2300 people. The death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers searched mounds of wreckage in cities and towns across the area, ( read original story ...)
The Most Powerful Earthquake on Record
The device is said to have detected an earthquake 400 miles away. Although this early device could determine whether an earthquake had happened in its vicinity, it could not measure the strength of the quake. ( read original story ...)
Turkey, Syria earthquake: Biden, Netanyahu and other world leaders offer aid after thousands killed
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake and major aftershocks rocked Turkey and Syria early Monday, killing thousands and leaving hundreds trapped under the rubble of flattened buildings. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Letter: Birth policies seek to bolster waning population
Japanese people are having fewer children but, in the face of the climate crisis, should larger families be encouraged? ( read original story ...)
Golden girl HIdilyn vs Tokyo Olympian Ando
Paris Olympics is just around the corner. One year to go and everyone's getting excited. As in other sports, weightlifting too is feeling the heat.Everyone now is asking ... ( read original story ...)
As US planes bombed Japan in World War II, the Japanese sent balloons across the ocean to try to set the US on fire
Japan had limited resources, and bomb-laden balloons were a low-tech way to launch long-range attacks against the US mainland. ( read original story ...)
Canada isn’t doing enough to protect horses flown to Japan for slaughter, advocates say
Animal welfare advocates have filed a legal complaint with Ottawa after a December 2022 shipment of live horses to Japan exceeded the legal 28-hour limit without food, water or rest. However, the ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto industry will ‘come up with new things’ and national digital currencies are moving ahead despite recent turmoil, BIS says
"I would assume that the industry will learn from these failures and they will come up with new things," head of the BIS Innovation Hub told Reuters.
FTX has chased politicians like Nancy Pelosi to return donations given before the crypto giant’s collapse. They now have a deadline of February 28 to pay.
FTX previously asked for the money to be returned in December; donor recipients now have until the end of February to return funds.
Crypto firms face big penalties, including jail time, for unauthorized ads following the FTX disaster, UK financial regulator says
Breaches of the new financial promotions guidelines can lead up to a two-year prison sentence, according to the UK regulator.
How Investors Can Improve Crypto Due Diligence
In the aftermath of FTX, whose management team and structure allegedly managed to deceive some of the largest venture capital firms in the world, the importance of due diligence in the crypto space ...