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When online outrage torpedoed the latest episode of One‑Punch Man, few saw past the animation flaws. But what followed exposed a creative industry buckling under impossible expectations.The sixth episode of the long-awaited third season of the Japanese superhero saga – once praised for its sharp humour and kinetic style – stumbled onto screens under the weight of its own hype in October.Viewers flooded social media with complaints about its uneven pacing and “rushed” storytelling. On reviews database IMDb, the episode’s audience rating collapsed to 1.4, a brutal comedown for a franchise accustomed to critical acclaim that had usually scored between…

China’s top aircraft maker is stepping up efforts to promote its first business jet as it looks to break into a market dominated by Western aviation firms like Gulfstream Aerospace.The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) took the rare step of showcasing a completed version of the model – called the Comac Business Jet, or CBJ – at an exhibition in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in October.The move signalled the state-owned company was “seeking to break into the large-cabin VIP aircraft market” with the CBJ, aviation industry news outlet AIN Media Group reported on Thursday.The CBJ is adapted…

Jeff Rowe grinned with satisfaction when the dashboard of his John Deere combine harvester showed the yield of the first run on his family’s farm during this year’s harvest: 253 bushels per acre, equivalent to 13.8 tonnes of corn per hectare.The yield on the 100-acre Schubert parcel was the highest in many years, said Rowe, the CEO of Syngenta Group and the son of the owners of Rowe Farm, Dean and Carol. Located in the corn belt of Illinois state in the US Midwest, the farm used Syngenta’s newly improved seeds, weed retardants and pest control solutions, drone scanning and…

Taiwan’s updated crisis and war survival guide has ignited fierce political debate, hailed by officials as a lifeline amid Beijing’s mounting military pressure but blasted by critics as costly propaganda prompting fear rather than readiness.Mass distribution of In Case of Crisis: Taiwan’s National Public Safety Guide – quickly dubbed the “little orange book” – began late last month, targeting 9.83 million households.The 29-page comic-style publication explains how to stockpile food and water, locate shelters and identify signs of escalating threats to the public, ranging from cyberattacks to a full-scale military assault.It updates previous guidance by including information on landslide-dammed lakes…

The provincial publicity department of the eastern province of Zhejiang became the latest to weigh in on this issue. In a commentary posted on its official social media on Tuesday, it warned that this approach was likely to backfire.It criticised the use of labels such as “refrigerator” officials to describe those who “don’t speak up, stay cold and don’t change”; “treadmill” types who “look busy and sweaty but who make no progress in their work”; or “lipstick” cadres who make things pretty on the surface without doing the in-depth work.Others were accused of “lying flat” – a popular Chinese term…

KARACHI: Service Long March Tyres (Private) Limited (SLM), a prominent subsidiary of Service Indus-tries Limited (SIL), has officially announ-ced its intention to launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) and list on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The announcement was addressed to the General Manager of the PSX and the Executive Director of the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), confirming the board’s strategic decision to go public. SLM is a key player in Pakistan’s heavy-duty tyre segment and is recognized as the pioneer in manufacturing all-steel radial truck and bus (TBR) tyres in the country. The upcoming IPO is…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s state-run Oil & Gas Development Company is planning a major expansion of unconventional gas developments from early next year, aiming to boost production and reduce reliance on imported liquefied natural gas. Pakistan has long been viewed as having potential in both tight and shale gas, which are trapped in rock and can only be released with specialised drilling, but commercial output has yet to be proved. Managing Director Ahmed Lak told Reuters that OGDC had tripled its tight-gas study area to 4,500 square kilometres (1,737 square miles) after new seismic and reservoir analysis indicated larger potential. Phase two…

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Energy and Sports, Faisal Ayub Khokhar discussed in detail with members of APTMA about deindustrialisation in Punjab due to exorbitant energy costs and explored ways and means to provide energy at affordable tariff. The minister visited APTMA along with Dr Farrukh Naveed, Secretary Energy, Muhammad Majid Iqbal, Additional Secretary Energy Department and Sanyia Awais, MD Punjab Power Development Board. On his arrival at APTMA, he was received by Kamran Arshad Chairman APTMA, Asad Shafi Chairman North and leading textile exporters and manufacturers including Ahmad Shafi Vice Chairman, Mian Muhammad Shakeel, Haroon Ellahi Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, S…

The tarpaulin barely held against the wind, sagging under days of ceaseless rain.For the earthquake survivors of San Remigio, in the central Philippines, it was all that remained – a thin sheet of plastic above a patch of mud, standing in for the homes a 6.9-magnitude quake had reduced to rubble weeks earlier.The storm, known locally as Tino, drenched thousands of families still huddled in their makeshift shelters. Roads vanished beneath floodwater. Power lines snapped and stayed down. Aid was stranded on the wrong side of washed-out highways. For many, hope felt as precarious as the tarpaulin pinned above their…

US President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy frames America’s allies not just as partners, but as instruments to preserve US primacy and counter China’s rise, analysts say.The strategy urges wealthy allies to increase defence spending, align more closely with Washington on measures such as export controls, and take greater responsibility for their regions, a shift that recasts long-standing alliances as tools in great-power competition.The 33-page document declares that the era of the US “propping up the entire world order like Atlas” is over.“The United States must work with our treaty allies and partners – who together add another $35…