Starbucks will hire more baristas and scale back plans to roll out automation, the coffee shop giant’s chief executive Brian Niccol says. The move, which is part of his strategy to win back customers, comes as other food and drink chains increasingly adopt technology to cut costs. Also on Tuesday, the firm announced worse-than-expected financial … Read more
Starbucks is not alone. The country’s biggest search engine, Naver, has disabled autocomplete and related search suggestions for candidates, as it usually does during election season. A search on Google for Lee, who is widely tipped to win the election, yields phrases like “Lee Jae-myung trial” – a reference to the fact that he is … Read more
Walk into any Starbucks in South Korea right now, and there are some names you definitely won’t be hearing. Six to be exact – and they happen to be the names of the candidates running in the upcoming presidential race. That’s because Starbucks has temporarily blocked customers who are ordering drinks from using these names, … Read more
There are now more North Korean defectors working in the South’s public sector than ever before, Seoul has said. By the end of 2024, 211 North Korean defectors held jobs in the public sector, 17 more than the previous year, the Ministry of Unification said in a statement on Wednesday. That number is the highest … Read more
New Delhi: The makers of the much-anticipated film ‘Hari Hara Veera Mallu’ have announced that Pawan Kalyan’s upcoming magnum opus will be released on the scheduled date. Earlier, the action thriller film was scheduled to hit the screens on June 12, 2025. The movie is directed by Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi and Jyothi Krishna and features … Read more