The NBA is taking NBA TV into its own hands. The league on Monday rolled out a slate of live games and basketball programming that will power its reimagined NBA streaming app, as well as its cable channel NBA TV. The news is significant because the league has not had operational control of NBA TV…
LAHORE: Since financial capital is built through tight monetary and fiscal policies where real interest rate is kept high along with primary budget surplus, let us see how high real interest rate and primary surplus affect the real economy. High real interest on government debt encourages business firms to buy financial assets. Business firms either…
The Dutch government has taken control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands, in a bid to safeguard the European supply of semiconductors for cars and other electronic goods and protect Europe’s economic security. The Hague said it took the decision due to “serious governance shortcomings” and to prevent the chips from becoming…
Malaysians have demanded that four students arrested for allegedly raping another pupil be suspended before they can take their final-year exams, in a case that has horrified a country still coming to terms with a spate of abuse cases in its educational institutions. Police arrested four high school students in southern Malacca state on Saturday…
BRUSSELS: The gold standard for economics is the idyllic state of perfect competition. This idyllic state occurs when there are enough buyers, sellers, workers and companies, and where economies of scale can be easily attained. As such, the marginal cost of a product will be the price of that product. Profit maximisation also means that…
PESHAWAR: In a landmark political development, Sohaib Afridi has been elected as the 30th Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, marking the first time in Pakistan’s history that a leader from the tribal regions has assumed the province’s top office. Afridi secured 90 votes in the provincial assembly, while opposition parties boycotted the election process. His…
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Johannes Jensen knows a thing or two about the laws of the TV jungle. After all, started his industry career in 1992 as a freelancer at Swedish production firm Strix Television, where he later played a key role in producing the original version of the Survivor format, known in Sweden as Expedition: Robinson, for public…
KARACHI: Pakistan’s economy continues to face deep-seated socio-economic challenges despite the government’s claims of macroeconomic stability and improved fiscal indicators. While recent months have seen relative calm in the exchange rate, improved foreign inflows, and a recovery in the stock market, these gains have not translated into meaningful improvements in the lives of ordinary citizens….
In a speech to the United Nations Security Council last month, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, took aim at artificial intelligence (AI). While she said the technology “heralds extraordinary promise” in fields such as health and education, she also said its potential use in nuclear weapons and unmanned systems challenges the future of…
