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(Reuters) -Tesla Inc late on Tuesday further slashed prices in the United States for some of its Model Y and Model 3 electric vehicles, according to its website, ahead of its first-quarter results on Wednesday. The Elon Musk-led electric vehicle maker’s sixth price cut in the U.S. will see the cost of both the Model Y Long Range and Performance vehicles cut by $3000 each. The cost of its Model […]

By Panu Wongcha-um PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) – Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew is going door-to-door asking people to vote for her in Thailand’s May 14 election even though she faces possible jail time on charges of sedition and defaming the king during unprecedented protests in 2020. The 30-year-old is one of more than a dozen activists from a student-led protest movement who are taking their once-taboo cause from the streets to […]

By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) – The Toronto Maple Leafs’ bid to end their 56-year Stanley Cup drought got off to a woeful start on Tuesday as the Tampa Bay Lightning rolled to a 7-3 win in the opener of their best-of-seven first round series. The Lightning have reached the Stanley Cup finals for the last three seasons, hoisting the trophy twice, and they showed the Maple Leafs how its […]

By Oliver Denzer and Laurie Chen HAMBURG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Dazed and terrified, Yicheng Huang narrowly managed to escape being detained by police in Shanghai while attending historic protests calling for an end to China’s COVID-19 curbs that spread across numerous cities last November. The protests, unprecedented in President Xi Jinping’s decade in power, were suppressed by police within days but helped hasten the end of three years of restrictions, sources […]

By Panu Wongcha-um PATHUM THANI, Thailand (Reuters) – Chonthicha “Lookkate” Jangrew is going door-to-door asking people to vote for her in Thailand’s May 14 election even though she faces possible jail time on charges of sedition and defaming the king during unprecedented protests in 2020. The 30-year-old is one of more than a dozen activists from a student-led protest movement who are taking their once-taboo cause from the streets to […]

By YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is on its way to become the world’s most populous country, overtaking China with almost 3 million more people in the middle of this year, data released on Wednesday by the United Nations showed. The demographic data from the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) “State of World Population Report, 2023” estimates India’s population at 1,428.6 million or 1.4286 billion against 1.4257 billion […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese battery giant CATL on Wednesday unveiled a condensed matter battery that it said could supply enough energy to power electric passenger aircraft for civil aviation use. The battery, a type of semi-solid state product with condensed electrolyte and new anode and separator materials, will have an energy density of 500 Watt hours per kilogramme (Wh/kg), according to Wu Kai, CATL’s Scientist in Chief, speaking to reporters at […]

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador’s ruling party lawmakers approved late Tuesday a bill to eliminate for 15 years taxes on companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) and other computer programming work in a bid to make the country a more attractive tech destination. The tech tax cut was championed by President Nayib Bukele, who first touted the legislation late last month. Bukele’s New Ideas Party dominates the country’s Congress. The […]

By Joe Cash and Pasit Kongkunakornkul BEIJING/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Bookings in China for trips abroad during the upcoming May Day holiday point to a continued recovery in travel to Asian countries, but the numbers remain far off pre-COVID levels with long-haul airfares soaring and not enough flights available. Overseas tour bookings for the upcoming holiday, for which many in China are off from April 29 until May 3, are up […]