Japan became the seventh team to book their place at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals when they came from behind to beat Canada 2-1 in Tokyo on Sunday. Victory in the doubles put them top of Group A and means they will be heading to Shenzhen in September to join hosts China, defending champions…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday bore down on his administration’s latest message that the exclusion of smartphones and computers from his reciprocal tariffs on China will be short-lived, pledging a national security trade investigation into the semiconductor sector. Those electronics “are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket,’” Trump said in a social media…
Crunching popcorn and screaming, Indonesians are flocking to watch homegrown horror films in cinemas that draw on the country’s penchant for ghost and monster stories. The genre now dominates Indonesia’s theaters after this folklore helped the industry rise from the grave at the start of the century, when almost no horror films were produced locally,…
The Japanese government has begun a survey into public health insurance usage by foreign residents, amid concerns voiced by some lawmakers that people may come from overseas to… © Japan Today
Actor Manuel Masalva, known for his work in Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico,” is hospitalized in a medically induced coma in Dubai after contracting a highly infectious bacteria while vacationing. Manager Jaime Jaramillo Espinosa confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the 43-year-old had been in the Philippines but arrived in the United Arab Emirates city on March 18 when he began having “internal discomfort and pain” that worsened. Masalva…
Tracey Ingleston has thought about his brother every day for the last 55 years. On March 29, 1970, U.S. Army Sgt. Staret “Star” John Ingleston was killed in the Vietnam War. The 20-year-old was one of 14 American lives lost in an attack by North Vietnamese forces that morning at Firebase Jay in the southwest part of the country. Speaking with…
