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Japan Will Fund Up to $21 Billion for Two GlobalFoundries Chip Plants in New York

Tokyo supplies the money, GlobalFoundries runs the plants at Malta, New York, and Washington takes a bigger equity stake, with the first fab due to produce chips in 2029.

Oct 15, 2026

Japanese Chicken Katsu Curry: Crispy and Comforting

A beloved Japanese comfort dish: panko-crusted chicken cutlet served alongside a silky curry sauce. Crispy, warm, and endlessly satisfying.

Mar 12, 2024

Japan Launches MMX to Bring Back the First Samples From Mars' Moon Phobos

A five-agency mission lifted off from Tanegashima before dawn on Tuesday, and will reach Mars in 2027 and aim to return at least 10 grams of Phobos soil to Earth in 2031.

Oct 22, 2026

Chicken Karaage: Japanese Fried Chicken With a Crust That Stays Crisp Until the Last Piece

Thigh meat marinated in soy, ginger and garlic, coated in potato starch and fried twice. The second fry is the whole secret: it drives out moisture and leaves a thin, shattering crust.

Sep 14, 2026

Sports

The Asian Games Open in Nagoya on Saturday: 15,000 Athletes, 43 Sports, 469 Golds, and a Route to Los Angeles 2028

The second-largest multi-sport event on Earth returns to Japan for the first time since Hiroshima in 1994. The ceremony is at Paloma Mizuho Stadium at six on Saturday evening. What is new, where the swimming is, and why the Gulf's squads matter this time.

Sep 15, 2026

Physicists in Japan Cracked a 25-Year Puzzle in Measuring One of the Hardest Forms of Quantum Entanglement

A Kyoto University and Hiroshima University team demonstrated the first method for identifying W state entanglement among three photons, closing a gap that had resisted physicists since the state was first described in the late 1990s.

Oct 1, 2026

Kospi Sinks 4.9% and the Nikkei Falls 2.5% as Amazon and Intel Revive AI Cost Fears and Treasury Yields Slip Below 5%

Korean chip stocks led an Asian retreat after Thursday's US earnings, the Bank of Japan held at 1.25% on an 8-1 vote, and oil edged higher after a vessel fire near Hormuz.

Oct 30, 2026

The Ten-Year Touched Five Per Cent, Brent Held Near 107, and Chip Stocks Fell on a Warning From the People Who Sell Them

The Fed decides Wednesday with a rise at ninety per cent, the Bank of Japan is expected to follow on Friday, German Bunds are at a 2009 high and gold sits near 4,300. Nvidia lost two per cent after Anthropic and OpenAI asked the industry to slow down.

Sep 15, 2026

Why There's Suddenly Not Enough Matcha to Go Around

A global cafe boom collided with a limited Japanese harvest, and now matcha lattes are getting rationed, waitlisted, and quietly more expensive.

Oct 8, 2025

Kyoto in Autumn Colour: How the Season Moves Across the City and How to Beat the Crowds

The leaves turn from the hills in first and the city temples last. Plan around the colour front rather than a fixed date, go early, and know which routes and rail lines save you the most time.

Sep 16, 2026

SoftBank Borrowed Another 11.9 Billion Dollars to Keep Funding OpenAI, and Its Shares Fell 13 Per Cent the Same Day

Twenty banks lent Masayoshi Son more than he asked for: a two-year facility to pay off a 25.9 billion dollar bridge due today and carry a commitment that reaches 65 billion by October. Public investors were less generous.

Sep 15, 2026

Heathrow Will Move Delta to Terminal 4 in 2028 and Split It From Virgin Atlantic, and Both Airlines Say They Will Fight

A once-a-decade terminal review shifts five carriers. Delta's Ed Bastian calls it short-sighted and promises all available remedies; Heathrow says airlines carrying 81 percent of passengers back it.

Nov 5, 2026

Cold Tahini Soba Noodles With Date Syrup and Chilli Crisp

Japanese buckwheat noodles dressed with a Levantine sesame sauce. The two sesame pastes are near relatives, and date syrup does the job mirin was already doing.

Aug 4, 2026

Miso Tahini Aubergine: Nasu Dengaku Meets the Levant

Two sesame pastes from opposite ends of Asia turn out to want the same thing. A Japanese temple-festival glaze, loosened with tahini and finished with pomegranate.

Jul 26, 2026

Nippon Paint Agrees to Buy AkzoNobel's Southeast Asian Paints Business for $1.35 Billion

The Japanese group walks away with a narrower prize than the whole decorative division it once chased. AkzoNobel expects about $1 billion in net cash and says the sale ends its review of Asian decorative paints.

Oct 5, 2026

Oil Below $100 Still Leaves Central Banks With a Difficult Week

Energy prices have eased from their sharpest fears, but the Fed, Bank of England and Bank of Japan still face inflation signals pulling against softer growth.

Jul 28, 2026

The Thirty-Year Treasury Is at 5.32 Per Cent and the Federal Reserve Has Not Touched a Thing

Long government borrowing costs are at multi-decade highs across the United States, Germany, France and Japan. The cause is not central bank policy. It is the sheer volume of debt being issued, and some of it is paying for data centres.

Aug 18, 2026

Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai Win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Showing How a Tiny Imbalance in Molecules Can Snowball

A French chemist and a Japanese one share the award for the reactions that explain how mirror-image molecules can tip heavily to one side, a puzzle that matters for medicines and for life itself.

Oct 7, 2026

Sports

Nations Championship Round 4 Preview: Scotland Host the All Blacks, England Meet Australia at Twickenham

Six tests from Friday to Sunday, every kick-off time, the squads already named, the injuries that matter and the two league World Cup semi-finals in Newcastle and Sydney.

Nov 3, 2026

Matcha is taking over your local cafe faster than coffee

Gen Z made matcha aesthetic, brands made it accessible, and now supply can't keep up. What happens when a trend grows too fast.

Sep 30, 2024

Miso and Tahini Are the Same Idea in Two Languages, and Aubergine Is Where They Meet

Fusion earns its name when two traditions are solving the same problem. Miso and tahini both exist to carry savoury depth into vegetables, and roasted aubergine is the dish where putting them together stops being a novelty.

Sep 4, 2026

The Grand Egyptian Museum Is Making Ancient History Part of a Green Future

Solar panels integrated into the Grand Egyptian Museum show how cultural landmarks can cut operating emissions without compromising architecture or visitor experience.

Aug 3, 2026

Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines Will Fly Nonstop From Seattle to Osaka and Tahiti From Spring 2027

Two new Pacific routes on lie-flat Airbus A330s start in May and June 2027, with sale fares from $999 for a limited time, subject to government approval.

Oct 20, 2026

Eight Orangutans Rescued From Borneo's Fires Are Released Into the Batu Nyambu Protected Forest

Three mothers with babies and two teenage males were moved to a 23,000-hectare reserve in West Kalimantan as El Nino-driven fires keep burning through habitat that holds half of Borneo's orangutans.

Oct 11, 2026

Kospi Plunges Almost 8 Percent and the Nikkei Falls 5 Percent as the Tech Sell-Off Spreads to Asia

Samsung and SK Hynix both lost more than 11% in Seoul after Wall Street's worst day since July, and analysts and the IMF warned that Asia is heavily exposed to the AI boom.

Oct 15, 2026

NASA's Crew-12 Splashed Down Off California After 237 Days in Space

Dragon Freedom touched down in the Pacific at 8:34 a.m. Pacific time on 8 October with four crew members, ending a flight that included 235 days on the International Space Station.

Oct 9, 2026

Zipline Raises $1.5 Billion at a $21.5 Billion Valuation as Walmart Commits to 300 More Drone Delivery Sites

The drone company that began by flying blood to clinics in Rwanda has closed a round led by Paradigm, with Walmart signing up for a large expansion of its delivery network across the US.

Nov 6, 2026

Nvidia Signs Six Suppliers to Expand Chip Substrates, Packaging and Testing

At GTC Berlin the chipmaker named Ibiden, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Unimicron, Amkor, KYEC and SPIL, with prepaid reservations and a plan to raise substrate capacity 2.5 times.

Oct 23, 2026

Nasdaq Closes in Correction After a 5.5% Drop as the S&P 500 Has Its Worst Day Since April 2025

A second day of selling in AI stocks sent the Dow down 1,833 points and Nvidia down 9 percent, erasing the post-midterm rally and leaving the Nasdaq more than 10 percent off its peak.

Nov 5, 2026

Lifestyle

The British Museum's New Korea Show Traces 2,000 Years of Art the Institution Had Never Given Its Own Exhibition Before

Korea, which opens 1 October in the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery, is the British Museum's first major exhibition devoted to Korean art and history in more than 40 years, drawing partly on the late Samsung chairman's donated collection.

Oct 1, 2026

Kospi Falls 3.7% as the US Chip Rout Spreads to Asia, Tokyo Shuts for Culture Day and the RBA Hikes to 4.85%

Korean chipmakers led Tuesday's Asian sell-off after a three-day 12% slide in US semiconductor stocks, while Australia's central bank raised rates to an 18-year high on a 6-3 vote.

Nov 3, 2026

Wall Street Week Ahead: A Fed Decision on Wednesday, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon Report, and Oil Near $117

After a Friday slide led by the Dow, investors face a Fed meeting priced for a hold, three Big Tech reports, GDP and PCE data, and central bank decisions in Frankfurt and Tokyo.

Oct 26, 2026

PISA 2025: Fifteen-Year-Olds Across the Rich World Read Worse Than Any Cohort the OECD Has Measured

Reading scores across the OECD have fallen 28 points in a decade, about a year and a half of schooling, and maths 22. One in five students is now a low performer in all three subjects. The largest PISA ever, and the sharpest fall came in the last three years.

Sep 10, 2026

Crypto

Bitcoin Is Holding Near 77,000 Dollars as Rate Rise Odds Climb, Which Is Better Than the Textbook Says It Should

Down 4 per cent on the week and 34 per cent on the year, but up 21 per cent on the month, with the Fed about to raise rates and oil up eleven per cent in five days. Ether is at 2,500. What the price is telling you, and what it is not.

Sep 15, 2026

Congee Is What Half the World Eats When It Is Unwell, and It Takes Five Ingredients

Rice porridge simmered until the grains dissolve is the convalescent food of East Asia, and kitchari is its equivalent in India. Adding turmeric and ginger to congee simply puts the two traditions in the same bowl.

Sep 4, 2026

Life Runs on Four Letters. A Bacterial Enzyme Has Just Read Eight Without Being Told

RNA polymerase from E. coli transcribed a synthetic eight-letter genetic alphabet using the same signals it uses for natural DNA. The finding, in Nature Communications, means cells may not need rewiring to speak an expanded language.

Sep 6, 2026

iOS 27 Is Out With the New Siri, Which Is a Beta, in English Only, Not in the EU, and Only on an iPhone 15 Pro or Newer

Apple shipped all six of its operating systems on Monday. The assistant that reads your messages, mail and photos to answer a question is the headline, and it comes with more conditions than any feature Apple has released. What everyone else gets.

Sep 15, 2026

Buddhist Monks Invented Mock Meat in the Sixth Century and Called It Mianjin

Wheat gluten appears in a Chinese agricultural encyclopaedia written in 535. It has been a temple staple across East Asia for fifteen centuries, and the word seitan was only coined in the twentieth.

Sep 4, 2026

Falcon's 700th Flight, Europe's Plant-Fluorescence Satellite, and Djibouti Signs the Artemis Accords: A Weekend in Orbit

SpaceX completed SES's medium-orbit constellation on a booster flying for the twenty-ninth time. Vega-C put FLEX, the first satellite built to watch photosynthesis, into orbit with Sentinel-3C. And a Red Sea state became the seventy-second signatory.

Sep 15, 2026

Apple Posts a $114.5 Billion September Quarter, Up 12%, but Guides Margins Down to 45% to 46%

John Ternus's first earnings report as chief executive brought record iPhone and Services numbers and a $479 billion fiscal year, with a December margin forecast below the 47.9 percent just reported.

Nov 2, 2026

Diving

Can You Get the Bends From Freediving? Yes, and Here Is How

The old assumption was that one breath cannot load enough nitrogen to matter. Repetitive deep dives with short surface intervals disprove it, and the divers it happens to are usually working, not competing.

Aug 12, 2026

Lifestyle

Forest Bathing Has Real Data and One Awkward Finding About Anticipation

Shinrin-yoku has produced a body of research showing reduced cortisol and blood pressure after time among trees. It has also produced evidence that expecting to go may lower cortisol by itself, which complicates the story usefully.

Sep 4, 2026

Traditional Emirati Food: What It Is, and Why You Rarely See It

A cuisine built by pearl divers, date farmers and traders across the Indian Ocean. The spicing came by dhow, the technique came from scarcity, and almost none of it is served in restaurants.

Aug 10, 2026

Cheesy Ramen on the Stove: Instant Noodles in a Real Cheese Sauce in Ten Minutes

Kraft Mac & Cheese announced a Cheesy Ramen line on 6 October, due in April 2027. You can have the idea tonight with a packet of noodles, stock, milk and a handful of cheddar.

Oct 18, 2026

Fashion

Reading a Pair of Jeans: Ounce Weights, Selvedge, Raw Denim and the Stitching That Tells You Where It Was Made

Denim is a twill with an indigo warp and a white weft, and almost everything about how a pair will wear is visible before you try them on: the weight, the finished edge inside the leg, the colour of the thread, and the rivets.

Oct 29, 2024

Wall Street Has Started Lending Against the Chips Themselves

Nvidia and six financial institutions are mobilising more than 500 billion dollars for AI infrastructure, with the graphics processors as collateral. The question nobody has answered is what a used GPU is worth in 2031.

Aug 16, 2026

The Gulf's Restaurant Scene Is Reinventing Itself in 2026

After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.

May 19, 2026

A Detector a Mile Under South Dakota Saw One Event It Cannot Explain, and Its Own Scientists Say Do Not Get Excited

The LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration reported a single particle interaction in ten tonnes of liquid xenon that matches no known background. It is a 2.6 sigma result, one chance in two hundred of being a fluke, and far from a discovery. Why it matters anyway.

Sep 8, 2026

Crypto

Only Abu Dhabi's Regulator Has Spoken on the Binance Hack, While Washington Stays Silent and Rivals Offer Help

The FSRA says it is monitoring, US agencies have not commented, exchange peers offer support, lawyers doubt the SAFU pledge is binding, and here is what Binance tells customers.

Oct 30, 2026

Diving

Wetsuit Thickness, Fit and Neoprene: a Buying Guide That Starts With the Water Temperature

A wetsuit that fits badly is a wetsuit of any thickness that does not work. Match millimetres to the water, check the fit at the neck, the small of the back and the wrists, and know which neoprene you are paying for.

Apr 7, 2026

No, Nobody Predicted It: Earthquake Prediction, Frank Hoogerbeets and the Planets

After every major earthquake, a prediction resurfaces that appears to have called it. Here is how that trick works, why seismologists say prediction is not currently possible, and what forecasting can actually do.

Aug 12, 2026

Health

Ten Thousand Steps Was a Marketing Number. The Evidence Says the Benefit Flattens Around Seven Thousand

Two large pooled analyses now agree: the drop in mortality with more walking is steep up to about seven thousand steps a day and shallow after that. What the studies found, what they could not show, and what to do with a phone that counts.

Sep 6, 2026

Crypto

Cryptocurrency Regulations: Examining Global Approaches and Implications

As cryptocurrencies disrupt traditional financial systems, governments, and regulatory bodies worldwide are grappling with the need to establish clear guidelines and regulations. In this blog, we will delve into the global approaches to cryptocurrency regulations and discuss the implications they have on the industry, investors, and the broader economy. From defining legal frameworks to addressing

May 29, 2023

Hayden Panettiere Told the Truth in Public Before It Was Survivable to Do So

She was a working actress at four, a superhero at seventeen and a Golden Globe nominee at twenty-three. The part of her life that changed the most for other people happened off screen.

Aug 17, 2026

Where to Eat Vegan in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh and Jeddah

Cold-pressed juice bars, Armenian-Lebanese plant plates, and a vegan bakery in Ar Rawdah: how Riyadh and Jeddah are building a real vegan dining map.

Oct 2, 2025