TAIPEI: The US-led “Fab 4” semiconductor alliance of Taiwan, the United States, Japan and South Korea held its first video meeting of senior officials last week focused on supply chain resilience, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. The United States last September convened the first meeting of the working group, colloquially called “Fab 4” or “Chip 4”, to discuss how to …

Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc laid off dozens of employees on Saturday in what is at least the eighth round of job cuts since Musk took over the social network in late October, the Information reported. The job cuts impacted multiple engineering teams, including those supporting advertising technology, the main Twitter app as well as technical infrastructure to keep Twitter’s systems …

LAHORE: The Punjab government may have agreed to light up the route from the team hotels to the Gaddafi Stadium, but its sta­ndoff with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) continues to drag on, making it seem like the Pakistan Super League would be shifted from Lahore and Rawalpindi to Karachi after an agreement on security expenditure eluded the two sides, …

MANAMA: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc topped the morning timesheets on the final day of Formula One’s pre-season test in Bahrain on Saturday but said Red Bull remained the team to beat. The Monegasque lapped the Sakhir circuit with a fastest time of one minute 31.024 seconds on the Pirelli C4 tyres, 0.418 quicker than Mercedes’ George Russell who was using the …

LAHORE: Shaheen Shah Afridi had a straight answer: “It’s a matter for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to deal with.” Amid the uncertainty over the staging of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches in Lahore and Rawalpindi, with the PCB refusing to budge on the demand of the Punjab government to pay Rs450 million as security expenditure, the Lahore Qalandars …

CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s women cricketers will go where none of their male counterparts have gone when they contest their very first World Cup final at Newlands in Cape Town on Sunday. The hosts reached the final of the women’s T20 World Cup with a thrilling six-run win over England but now they will be up against Australia, a team …

KARACHI: The stroll towards the Fazal Mahmood Enclosure on Friday evening unnecessarily became a long tedious walk of around 1.5 kilometres. Though the toil was not unbearable, thanks to the pleasant weather, it was pretty frustrating. “This way,” said a paramilitary soldier while pointing in the direction of the road leading to Gate No.6, when asked about the way towards …

Just like in the World Cup final, Paris Saint-Germain teammates Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe go up against one another for The Best FIFA Men’s Player prize for 2022 on Monday, with Ballon d’Or Karim Benzema the other contender. The ceremony takes place in Paris, and Messi appears as the favourite to add another individual gong to his collection after leading …

ISLAMABAD: The Centre’s reluctance to release the committed development and non-development funds has put PTI-led Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government in a tough situation to deal with the brewing financial crisis. AJK Prime Minister Tanveer Ilyas on Saturday held a meeting with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar but failed to secure any assurance for the release of the budgetary funds. …

WASHINGTON: Pakistan needs to end this practice of sending its economy to the intensive care unit (ICU) for resurrection, says Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar. The minister made this statement at a news conference on Friday, at the end of a three-day visit to Washington during which he also represented Pakistan at the official trade and investment conference. “We need …