Japan will offer new financial support to Ukraine worth $5.5 billion, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday, a day before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion. Japan, this year’s Group of Seven president, has joined Western powers in imposing…
Iran on Monday denied reports that it had enriched uranium to 84 percent, less than the 90 percent needed to produce an atomic bomb. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Sunday evening that it was in discussions…
Beijing strongly rejected on Monday US claims that China is considering arming Russia in the war against Ukraine, as it reiterated its call for dialogue to end the conflict. On Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Beijing was…
Disney’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has generated unexpected buzz, taking in an estimated $118 million over the long holiday weekend to dominate the North American box office. The estimate, from industry watcher Exhibitor Relations, exceeded predictions and gave Marvel’s…
Billions of land mammals, and perhaps trillions of fish and other marine life, are slaughtered every year to meet unsustainable protein needs, but innovations in the biomedical field have provided a solution in the form of lab-grown meat. buy in…
Nedbank Group Economics Unit economist Liandra da Silva reckons South Africans will see at least one more repo rate hike this year. Speaking at the Nedbank Round Table discussion held at the Nedbank campus on Monday, February 20, 2023, da…
Despite fears that Eskom will drop the country to stage eight load-shedding from the current stage six, outgoing chief executive Andre de Ruyter has given assurances that the situation does not warrant an increase in power outages. During a media…
SMEs need fundamental and large-scale interventions from the National Budget 2023 as they struggle to recover after the pandemic and after several socio-economic factors have undermined business confidence and hampered efforts to rebuild the struggling sector. When Finance Minister Enoch…
Among other issues, how to reduce the food shortage and electricity crisis in the country will be discussed The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) will host its first Inter-Campus Hybrid Research Conference on March 1 and 2, 2023. The conference, with…
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces a difficult task when he delivers the 2023 Budget on Wednesday. He must fill the void left by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who failed to explain Eskom’s debt as well as the government’s plans to support…