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ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistani police yesterday freed 290 Baloch activists who were arrested when they attempted to hold a protest last week in the capital, Islamabad. Their release came days after protest organisers gave authorities a deadline to release all those detained. The activists had travelled 1,600 kilometres on Thursday from Turbat, a town in […]

ANN/THE STRAITS TIME – The use of cryptocurrency by the average person in Singapore remained low in the past year, and did not grow as fast as in some other emerging Asian markets such as Vietnam and the Philippines. Singapore was ranked 76th in blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis’ 2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index, down from […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) preferred inflation gauge eased further in December, and consumer spending fell – the latest evidence that the Fed’s series of interest rate hikes are slowing the economy. Friday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose five per cent last month from a year earlier, down from […]

TOKYO (AP) – Global shares were mixed yesterday after Wall Street indexes finished little changed as investors awaited earnings results from major global companies. The United States (US) government will release economic growth data for the fourth quarter today. Economists expect the economy expanded at an annual pace of less than one per cent, down […]