Pakistan’s national netball team and their mentors pose with the national flag after winning the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 final (Plate Division Cup) by defeating Maldives at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium, Jeonju, South Korea, on July 4, 2025. — Reporter
JEONJU: Pakistan defeated Maldives 60-35 on Friday to win the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 (Plate Division Cup) in an exciting final held in Jeonju, South Korea.
Pakistan has won seven straight games in the Plate Division Cup, including the final match at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium.
Pakistan showed excellent form right away, taking a commanding 17–5 lead in the first quarter. The national team continued to dominate the next quarters, increasing their lead to 45-23 at the end of the third quarter and 34-17 at halftime.
The members of the Pakistan team (white) and the Maldives team (red) can be seen in action during the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 final (Plate Division Cup) at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium, Jeonju, South Korea, on July 4, 2025. — Reporter
The fact that the Maldives were never able to take the lead during the game was evidence of Pakistan’s steady play.
Key players for Pakistan, including Leya Raza Shah, Alisha Naveed, Sumayya Kouser, Haleema, Jasmine Farooq, Sumayya, Alina, Amani, Parisa and Farah Rasheed, delivered outstanding performances, contributing significantly to the team’s decisive victory.
The Chairman of the Pakistan Netball Federation, Mudassir Arian, along with President Sameen Malik and Secretary General Muhammad Riaz, extended their congratulations to the Pakistan team.
The Asian Youth Netball Championship 2025, organised under the auspices of the Asian Netball Federation, ran from June 27 to July 4.
Pop star Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom have officially confirmed they have split, US media outlets say, six years after getting engaged.
The couple have been romantically linked since 2016 and have a four-year-old daughter.
A joint statement said “representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting,” according to outlets including People magazine and USA Today.
“They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is – and always will be – raising their daughter with love, stability and mutual respect.”
The statement was being released due to the “abundance of recent interest and conversation” surrounding their relationship, it added.
The pop star, 40, and the 48-year-old actor split in 2017 but got back together shortly afterwards. They got engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2019.
A year later Perry revealed she was pregnant in the music video for her single Never Worn White.
Their daughter Daisy Dove was born later that year, with Unicef announcing the news on its Instagram account. Both Perry and Bloom are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children.
US singer Perry, who was previously married to Russell Brand, shot to fame in 2008 with the single I Kissed A Girl, which reached number one in the UK.
Her hits since then have included Roar, California Gurls, Firework and Never Really Over.
Bloom was previously married to Australian model Miranda Kerr, and they have a son, 14-year-old Flynn.
The British actor has starred in Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
To gain an initial representative understanding of how media debate analyses have been used and are useful for bioethics, as well as which methodological approaches were used to different ends, we conducted a rapid scoping review of the literature. This review offers a systematic and resource-efficient overview of studies analysing health-related media debates [26], highlighting the different methodologies applied in the field. It provides a broad perspective of the study landscape, helping to illustrate our methodological and theoretical considerations. As such, the rapid scoping review serves as a foundation for identifying methodological requirements and challenges and to develop perspectives for methodologically founded investigations of media debates in bioethics. Given the conceptual focus of this paper, an in-depth examination of individual studies that other review methodologies provide is beyond this paper’s scope. Instead, the rapid scoping review efficiently captures the research objectives and the methodological approaches necessary to underline our conceptual arguments in this paper.
Methodology
We systematically searched relevant articles in PubMed, Web of Science (Core Collection), and Scopus (see Table 1 for search algorithms and Fig. 1 for the article selection process). We included English-language articles that used an established methodology (e.g., qualitative or quantitative content analysis, thematic analysis) to analyse the content of traditional mass media or social media on a health topic (broadly defined, including One Health, public health, health research, and medical education) with a reference to bioethics (regarding topic, affiliation of authors, scope of journal etc.). Following our above-introduced definition of media debates, we excluded analyses of fictional content (e.g., assessment of child TV programs), social media analyses focusing on private conversations (e.g., closed Facebook groups) and studies that analysed the content of advertisements. Non-English-language studies were also not included.
Table 1 Search algorithms (search was performed in November 2023)
Fig. 1
Flow chart illustrating the systematic publication selection process. Studies in languages other than English were excluded from this review
From the included publications, we collected the following data from titles, abstracts, and other publication meta-data: (1) research field of the periodical; (2) first author’s field of affiliation; (3) topic of the paper; (4) unit of analysis (e.g. social media posts, newspaper articles); (5) methodology to analyse media content (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, Machine Learning-based); (6) presence of data triangulation; and (7) the contribution to bioethics. No full-text analysis was conducted.
Interdisciplinary landscape
To assess the interdisciplinary landscape of the 191 included publications, we extracted information on topics, methodologies, and academic fields. Topics were identified by applying Philipp Mayring’s methodology of a summarizing content analysis, which includes a step-wise paraphrasing and abstraction of content [27]. The most frequent topics were public health-related, including infectious diseases (24.6% of articles, Fig. 2A), mental health (13.1%) as well as nutrition, obesity and diet (6.8%). Other frequent topics addressed technological innovation in healthcare, including new technologies & therapies (9.9%), reproductive health (7.9%), and genomics (6.8%). Further, topics addressing the health system, including stakeholder perspectives (9.4%), health research & research ethics (8.9%), as well as health policy & health care systems (8.4%) were addressed. Various other health topics were addressed, too. Figure 2B shows that most analyses were conducted based on debates in news media (61.3%). Figure 2C indicates the variety of academic fields represented in health-relevant media debate analyses. Medicine was the most-represented field, followed by the social sciences and bioethics. Moreover, 15.2% of the articles were published in interdisciplinary journals. Our rapid scoping review further shows that the number of relevant publications has steadily increased since 2008 (Fig. 2D).
Fig. 2
Characteristics of media debate analysis publications about health. (A) Topics covered. (B) Arena of debate. (C) Academic fields represented. (D) Publications per year
Contribution to bioethical inquiries
Based on the considerations on the threefold significance of public media debate analyses for bioethics and initial findings from the rapid scoping review, we defined four categories of how media debate analyses have contributed to bioethical inquiries so far (Fig. 3). They show the different content-related potentials of the investigation of media debates in bioethics as well as their methodological range. While we conceptualized the first three categories as mutually exclusive, the fourth category (ethical evaluation of media debate) was sometimes coded in addition to one of the other categories. In the following, we will describe these categories by giving illustrative examples and emphasizing characteristics as identified through the rapid scoping review.
Fig. 3
Categorization of media debate analyses regarding their contribution to bioethical inquiries
Description of empirical context
Around one in three included publications (n = 61, 31.9%) did not engage explicitly in any ethical rationale or discussion but provided descriptive information on the content of media debates. Methodologically, qualitative and quantitative approaches were similarly represented. Additionally, four articles in this category used Machine Learning-based text categorization methodologies. For example, Indra and colleagues analysed social media posts about obesity, physical activity, and diets in the context of healthy lifestyles [28]. They performed sentiment analysis and topic modelling on these posts to identify the tone of the debate and the topics covered as determined by word frequencies, combinations, and relative proximities.
As argued above, even though they are descriptive, such investigations may still be of relevance for bioethical inquiries: They can provide an empirical basis for further bioethical analyses, even if no such analysis is provided in the publication itself. A pertinent example is a quantitative content analysis by Zimmermann and colleagues about the content, evaluations, and stakeholder influence in newspaper coverage of predictive genetic testing in Switzerland and the United Kingdom [29]. Contrasting their findings with other studies in the field of science communication, they showed how the debate fostered a more active public engagement with the topic than previous science communication topics and how the debate was much less salient in German-speaking Switzerland as compared to the United Kingdom.
Description of ethical aspects
As a second category, we identified 52 publications (27.2%) which explicitly described ethical aspects of health topics while not engaging in any more in-depth investigation and evaluation of ethical aspects. For example, Zimmermann and colleagues analysed what ethical issues pertinent in scholarly debates about predictive genetic testing were reported on in British newspapers. They quantified what ethical issues were particularly salient in newspaper reporting, identified what ethical issues were underrepresented, and discussed what ethical issues the public should be more explicitly informed about and why [30]. This allowed a detailed description of how ethical aspects within a specific context were represented in a pertinent media debate. In this way, this example illustrates the above-outlined significance of media debate analysis through a reflection of morality.
Further, such descriptions of ethical aspects covered in media debates touch upon the societal relevance of media debate analyses. For example, Chandler and colleagues qualitatively analysed online comments in response to news articles reporting on a Canadian patient who had been in a vegetative state for several years and was reported to communicate via fMRI neuroimaging [31]. The findings illustrated important moral deliberations in the online comments, including the quality of life of this patient, the question of withdrawing life support and options of the patient consenting to this, and the accuracy of diagnosing brain death. In concluding that “[t]hese public perspectives are relevant to the obligations of clinicians, lawyers, and public policymakers to patients, families, and the public” [31], the authors refer to the practical and ethical significance of their analysis.
Methodologically, publications in this category mostly followed traditional methodologies of media content analyses, including quantitative content analysis (n = 21, 40.4%) and qualitative content analysis (n = 16, 30.8%, see Fig. 3).
Identification and evaluation of moral problems
More than a quarter of the reviewed publications (n = 51, 26.7%) identified and evaluated moral problems regarding health-related topics in addition to describing the content of media debates. Such publications employed more qualitative (24/51, 47.1%) than quantitative procedures (12/51, 23.5%). Some 12 publications in this category (23.5%) analysed other data sources in addition to media content. This seems plausible since qualitative approaches and data triangulation offer more possibilities to examine a topic in-depth, and, in this course, to identify and evaluate ethical problems. For example, Rosenberg and colleagues analysed qualitative semi-structured interviews in addition to expert comments in Finnish media to demonstrate the social impact of the orphan drug Nusinersen [32]. By combining these two analyses, they outlined competing attitudes and values and showed that these may be classified differently depending on the situation.
As an example of a qualitative content analysis, Ross Arguedas investigated the media coverage of orthorexia nervosa [33]. Applying inductive thematic analysis, the author identified different framings of orthorexia but also a heterogeneous assignment of responsibility depending on the explanation of the causes of the eating disorder. Further, exemplifying a quantitative content analysis, Zimmermann and colleagues investigated solidarity and personal responsibility as important normative reference points in newspaper coverage in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland [34]. Using quantitative content analysis, they identified different contexts and areas of application of these two concepts. Finding that the limits of solidarity were only rarely mentioned in newspaper coverage about COVID-19, they called for a more distinct consideration of these limits to sustain solidarity as a resource in further crises.
Ethical evaluation of media debates
Finally, around one in three included publications (n = 59, 30.9%) discussed and evaluated the media debate itself from a normative perspective. For example, they identified blind spots, shortcomings, and tendencies in the media debate by focusing on how the media and the debate were embedded in a broader social and societal context. Such publications thus identified moral problems that arise or are reinforced because of the media debate.
For example, Aspler and colleagues conducted a content analysis of 286 articles from Canadian newspapers to investigate how the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is presented in the media debate [35]. Starting from inductive coding, they identified six major themes. In discussing these findings, they focused especially on exaggeration and misinterpretation in the debate and highlighted the risks of harmful stereotypical beliefs about indigenous people, confusion about health choices during pregnancy, and the unhelpful fueling of debates about sensitive issues surrounding women’s choices.
Some 32 of the 59 publications in this category (59.2%) were additionally assigned to other categories. For example, the above-mentioned study by Aspler and colleagues also aims to identify and evaluate moral problems [35]. This is not surprising since a certain thematic focus is usually necessary for a substantial ethical evaluation of the media debate.
In terms of methodology, the investigations in this category are diverse. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are equally spread. For example, Bosch and Wasserman chose a quantitative approach to analyse the tabloid media coverage of COVID-19 in South Africa [36]. Starting from the proposition that tabloid newspapers are often criticized for their sensation- and entertainment-orientated journalism, they investigated 1050 online news stories in the tabloid Daily Sun and found that the majority of the coverage was topic-oriented and neutral. Thus, using a quantitative approach to the evaluation of media debate, they show how the societal and practical significance of media debates can be addressed in media debate analyses.
The study of Patterson and colleagues applied both qualitative and quantitative content analysis to investigate how media coverage in the UK represented ‘binge’ drinking [37]. They found a “disproportionate focus on women’s ‘binge’ drinking” and discussed the potential effects of reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes. Furthermore, they formulated concrete suggestions on how media framing could be improved by a more comprehensive media engagement of public health advocates. Hence, this investigation is a very significant example illustrating how the societal and practical significance of media debates can be addressed in a field with different methodological approaches and different concrete research questions.
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KARACHI – The buying rate of Saudi Riyal (SAR) witnessed decline against Pakistani rupee in open market on Friday as 1 SAR stood at Rs75.69.
The selling rate of Saudi Riyal also dropped and hovered at Rs76.05.
The Saudi riyal to Pakistani rupee exchange rate holds major significance for Pakistan due to remittances from millions of overseas workers in Saudi Arabia.
A stronger riyal increases the value of remittances, supporting Pakistan’s economy, boosting foreign reserves, and helping stabilize the national currency against inflationary pressures.
1,000 Saudi Riyal in Pak Rupee
As the SAR buying rate stood at Rs75.69, an individual can exchange 1,000 Saudi Riyals for Rs75,690 in open market.
Currency exchange plays a vital role in the global economy and holds great significance for countries like Pakistan. It involves converting one country’s currency into another, enabling international trade, travel, and investment. For Pakistan, currency exchange helps determine the value of the Pakistani rupee against foreign currencies like the US dollar or UAE dirham.
Meanwhile, the workers’ remittances from overseas to Pakistan recorded a significant growth of 28.8 percent during eleven months of fiscal year 2024-25, reached nearly $35 billion. During the period from July 2024 to May 2025, monthly inflows in May increased to $ 3.69 billion.
“Cumulatively, with an inflow of US$ 34.9 billion, workers’ remittances increased by 28.8 percent during Jul-May FY25 compared to US$ 27.1 billion received during Jul-May FY24,” the State Bank of Pakistan reported on Wednesday.
Pakistanis living in Saudi Arabia topped the chart as they sent $913.3 million in wake of remittances in May 2025 followed by $754.2 million from the UAE.
A total of 147 medical oncologists completed the survey, corresponding to approximately 11% of the estimated 1340 medical oncologists practicing in Türkiye [4]. The median age of participants was 39 years (IQR: 35–46), and 63.3% were male. Respondents had a median of 14 years (IQR: 10–22) of medical experience and a median of 5 years (IQR: 2–14) specifically in oncology. Nearly half (47.6%) practiced in university hospitals, followed by 31.3% in training and research hospitals, and the remainder in private or state settings (Table 1). In terms of academic rank, residents/fellows constituted 38.1%, specialists 22.4%, professors 21.1%, associate professors 16.3%, and assistant professors 2.0%. Respondents were distributed across various urban centers, including major cities such as Istanbul and Ankara, as well as smaller provinces, reflecting a broad regional representation of Türkiye’s oncology workforce.
Table 1 Demographics, AI usage, and education status of participants
Most of the participants completed the survey from Central Anatolia Region of Türkiye (34.0%, n = 50), followed by Marmara Region (27.2%, n = 40), Eagean Region (17.0%, n = 25) and Mediterranian Region (10.2%, n = 15). The distrubution of the participants with regional map of Türkiye is presented in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1
Geographical Distribution of Participants by Regions of Türkiye
AI usage and education
A majority (77.5%, n = 114) of oncologists reported prior use of at least one AI tool. Among these, ChatGPT and other GPT-based models were the most frequently used (77.5%, n = 114), indicating that LLM interfaces had already penetrated clinical professionals’ workflow to some extent. Other tools such as Google Gemini (17.0%, n = 25) and Microsoft Bing (10.9%, n = 16) showed more limited utilization, and just a small fraction had tried less common platforms like Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama-3, or Hugging Face. Despite this relatively high usage rate of general AI tools, formal AI education was scarce: only 9.5% (n = 14) of respondents had received some level of formal AI training, and this was primarily basic-level. Nearly all (94.6%, n = 139) expressed a desire for more education, suggesting that their forays into AI usage had been largely self-directed and that there was a perceived need for structured, professionally guided learning.
Regarding sources of AI knowledge, 38.8% (n = 57) reported not using any resource, underscoring a gap in continuing education. Among those who did seek information, the most common channels were colleagues (26.5%, n = 39) and academic publications (23.1%), followed by online courses/websites (21.8%, n = 32), popular science publications (19.7%, n = 29), and professional conferences/workshops (18.4%, n = 27). This pattern suggests that while some clinicians attempt to inform themselves about AI through peer discussions or scientific literature, many remain unconnected to formalized educational pathways or comprehensive training programs.
Self-assessed AI knowledge
Participants generally rated themselves as having limited knowledge across key AI domains (Fig. 2A). More than half reported having “no knowledge” or only “some knowledge” in areas such as machine learning (86.4%, n = 127, combined) and deep learning (89.1%, n = 131, combined). Even fundamental concepts like LLM sand generative AI were unfamiliar to a substantial portion of respondents. For instance, nearly half (47.6%, n = 70) had no knowledge of LLMs, and two-thirds (66.0%, n = 97) had no knowledge of generative AI. Similar trends were observed for natural language processing and advanced statistical analyses, reflecting a widespread lack of confidence and familiarity with the technical underpinnings of AI beyond superficial usage.
Fig. 2
Overview of Oncologists’ AI Familiarity, Attitudes, and Perceived Impact. (A) Distribution of participants’ self-assessed AI knowledge, (B) attitudes toward AI in various medical practice areas, and (C) insights into AI’s broader impact on medical practice
Attitudes toward AI integration in oncology
When asked to evaluate AI’s role in various clinical tasks (Fig. 2B), respondents generally displayed cautious optimism. Prognosis estimation stood out as one of the areas where AI received the strongest endorsement, with a clear majority rating it as “positive” or “very positive.” A similar pattern emerged for medical research, where nearly three-quarters of respondents recognized AI’s potential in academic field. In contrast, opinions on treatment planning and patient follow-up were more mixed, with a considerable proportion adopting a neutral stance. Diagnosis and clinical decision support still garnered predominantly positive views, though some participants expressed reservations, possibly reflecting concerns about reliability, validation, and the interpretability of AI-driven recommendations.
Broadening the perspective, Fig. 2C illustrates how participants viewed AI’s impact on aspects like patient-physician relationships, social perception, and health policy. While most believed AI could improve overall medical practices and potentially reduce workload, many worried it might affect the quality of personal interactions with patients or shape public trust in uncertain ways. Approximately half recognized potential benefits for healthcare access, but some remained neutral or skeptical, perhaps concerned that technology might not equally benefit all patient populations or could inadvertently exacerbate existing disparities.
Ethical and regulatory concerns
Tables 2 and 3, along with Figs. 3A–C, summarize participants’ ethical and legal considerations. Patient management (57.8%, n = 85), article or presentation writing (51.0%, n = 75), and study design (25.2%, n = 37) emerged as key activities where the integration of AI was viewed as ethically questionable. Respondents feared that relying on AI for sensitive clinical decisions or academic tasks could compromise patient safety, authenticity, or scientific integrity. A subset of respondents reported utilizing AI in certain domains, including 13.6% (n = 20) for article and presentation writing, and 11.6% (n = 17) for patient management, despite acknowledging potential ethical issues in the preceding question. However, only about half of the respondents who admitted using AI for patient management identified this as an ethical concern. This discrepancy suggests that while oncologists harbor concerns, convenience or lack of guidance may still drive them to experiment with AI applications.
Table 2 Ethical concerns regarding AI usage in medical practice
Table 3 Views on ethical development and regulations for AI
Fig. 3
Ethical Considerations, Implementation Barriers, and Strategic Solutions for AI Integration. (A) Frequency distribution of major ethical concerns, (B) heatmap of implementation challenges across technical, educational, clinical, and regulatory categories, and (C) priority matrix of proposed integration solutions including training and regulatory frameworks. The implementation time and time-line is extracted from the open-ended questions. Timeline: The estimated time needed for implementation; Implementation time: The urgency of implementation. The timelime and implementation time is fully correlated (R.2 = 1.0)
Moreover, nearly 82% of participants supported using AI in medical practice, yet 79.6% (n = 117) did not find current legal regulations satisfactory. Over two-thirds advocated for stricter legal frameworks and ethical audits. Patient consent was highlighted by 61.9% (n = 91) as a critical step, implying that clinicians want transparent processes that safeguard patient rights and maintain trust. Liability in the event of AI-driven errors also remained contentious: 68.0% (n = 100) held software developers partially responsible, and 61.2% (n = 90) also implicated physicians. This suggests a shared accountability model might be needed, involving multiple stakeholders across the healthcare and technology sectors.
To address these gaps, respondents proposed various solutions. Establishing national and international standards (82.3%, n = 121) and enacting new laws (59.2%, n = 87) were seen as pivotal. More than half favored creating dedicated institutions for AI oversight (53.7%, n = 79) and integrating informed consent clauses related to AI use (53.1%, n = 78) into patient forms. These collective views point to a strong desire among oncologists for a structured, legally sound environment in which AI tools are developed, tested, and implemented responsibly.
Ordinal regression analysis of factors associated with AI knowledge, attitudes, and concerns
For knowledge levels, the ordinal regression model identified formal AI education as the sole significant predictor (ß = 30.534, SE = 0.6404, p < 0.001). In contrast, other predictors such as age (ß = −0.1835, p = 0.159), years as physician (ß = 0.0936, p = 0.425), years in oncology (ß = 0.0270, p = 0.719), and academic rank showed no significant associations with knowledge levels in the ordinal model.
The ordinal regression for concern levels revealed no significant predictors among demographic factors, professional experience, academic status, AI education, nor current knowledge levels (p > 0.05) were associated with the ordinal progression of ethical and practical concerns.
For attitudes toward AI integration, the ordinal regression identified two significant predictors. Those willing to receive AI education showed progression toward more positive attitudes (ß = 13.143, SE = 0.6688, p = 0.049), and actual receipt of AI education also predicted progression toward more positive attitudes (ß = 12.928, SE = 0.6565, p = 0.049). Additionally, higher knowledge levels showed a trend toward more positive attitudes in the ordinal model although not significant (ß = 0.3899, SE = 0.2009, p = 0.052).
Table 4 presents the ordinal regression analyses examining predictors of AI knowledge levels, concerns, and attitudes among Turkish medical oncologists.
Table 4 Ordinal regression results for assessing the factors affecting knowledge levels, attitudes and concerns
Qualitative insights
The open-ended responses, analyzed qualitatively, revealed several recurring themes reinforcing the quantitative findings. Participants frequently stressed the importance of human oversight, emphasizing that AI should complement rather than replace clinical expertise, judgment, and empathy. Data security and privacy emerged as central concerns, with some respondents worrying that insufficient safeguards could lead to breaches of patient confidentiality. Others highlighted the challenge of ensuring that AI tools maintain cultural and social sensitivity in diverse patient populations. Calls for incremental, well-regulated implementation of AI were common, as was the suggestion that education and ongoing professional development would be essential to ensuring clinicians use AI effectively and ethically.
In essence, while there is broad acknowledgment that AI holds promise for enhancing oncology practice, respondents also recognize the need for clear ethical standards, solid regulatory frameworks, comprehensive training, and thoughtful integration strategies. oncology care.
(Bloomberg) — Stocks fell along with equity-index futures as President Donald Trump ratcheted up trade tensions again ahead of next week’s deadline for higher tariffs.
A gauge of Asian equities retreated 0.3%, with South Korean shares leading with a 1.6% drop. Trump said his administration may begin sending out letters to trading partners as soon as Friday, setting unilateral tariff rates, ahead of the July 9 deadline for negotiations. Equity-index futures for the US and Europe both declined by 0.3%. Gold rose 0.5% while the dollar dipped 0.2%. There’s no cash trading in Treasuries due to a holiday in the US Friday.
Investors are staying on the sidelines awaiting outcomes from various trade negotiations amid the current pause on Trump’s April tariffs, which he put on hold for 90 days to allow time for talks. Stocks have rallied to record highs as initial concerns that the levies will push the US into a recession have eased. On Thursday, the US jobs growth exceeded expectations and all but erased bets for a July rate cut.
“There is still uncertainty out there, but one thing we do know is the US economy seems to be holding up relatively well,” said Tony Sycamore, market analyst at IG Australia.
Trump has long threatened that if countries fail to reach deals with the US before next week’s deadline, he would simply impose rates on them, raising the stakes for trading partners who have rushed to secure agreements with his administration.
“We’re probably going to be sending some letters out, starting probably tomorrow, maybe 10 a day to various countries saying what they’re going to pay to do business with the US,” Trump said.
In separate remarks, Trump said the countries will start paying tariffs on Aug. 1, but declined to comment on which nations will get the letter.
Investors such as Jung In Yun, chief executive officer at Fibonacci Asset Management Global Pte. in Singapore, are holding more cash and waiting for Monday to see how the market reacts.
“Portfolio has more cash than normal times for now,” he said. “I find too much optimism among other managers a bit uncomfortable,” he said about trimming some equities exposure to shield from potential drop in the market.
Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pushed back against the idea there has been little progress in negotiations with the US on a trade deal as a deadline looms for a 24% across-the-board tariff to take force.
Investors are cautious about the US sending out letters to trading partners, said Yugo Tsuboi, chief strategist at Daiwa Securities.
“The reason why market sentiment has not been as strong as it should have been is because of the trade negotiations,” Tsuboi said. Japanese stocks dipped 0.1%.
Treasuries fell and the dollar rose Thursday in a sign traders see less pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates after US jobs in June. Swap traders saw almost no chance of a July Fed cut, compared with a roughly 25% probability seen before the data. The chance of a move in September ebbed to about 70%.
Meanwhile, Trump secured a sweeping shift in US domestic policy as the House passed a $3.4 trillion fiscal package that cuts taxes, curtails spending on safety-net programs. A $5 trillion increase in the US debt limit in the package eliminates the risk of a market-rattling payment default the Treasury had forecast could come as soon as mid-August without congressional action.
The president said he plans to sign the bill on Friday at a 4 p.m. ceremony at the White House.
Separately, the Chinese government intends to cancel part of a two-day summit with European Union leaders planned for later this month, in the latest sign of the tensions between Brussels and Beijing.
In commodities, oil steadied before an OPEC+ meeting that’s set to deliver another oversized production hike, threatening to swell a glut forecast for later this year.
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India’s regulator temporarily barred Jane Street Group from accessing the local securities market. Jane Street disputed the regulator’s findings.
Singapore introduced fresh measures to tame housing prices.
Hong Kong developer New World Development Co. is returning to the spotlight this month as investors’ focus turns to its plan to raise as much as $2 billion through a new loan
Some of the main moves in markets:
Stocks
S&P 500 futures fell 0.3% as of 1:32 p.m. Tokyo time
Japan’s Topix fell 0.3%
Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was little changed
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 0.6%
The Shanghai Composite rose 0.4%
Euro Stoxx 50 futures fell 0.4%
Currencies
The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.1%
The euro rose 0.1% to $1.1774
The Japanese yen rose 0.3% to 144.44 per dollar
The offshore yuan rose 0.1% to 7.1629 per dollar
Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin fell 0.7% to $109,242.01
Ether fell 0.8% to $2,579.58
Bonds
Japan’s 10-year yield advanced one basis point to 1.450%
Australia’s 10-year yield advanced two basis points to 4.20%
Commodities
West Texas Intermediate crude fell 0.2% to $66.86 a barrel
Spot gold rose 0.4% to $3,340.86 an ounce
This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation.
–With assistance from Joanne Wong, Winnie Hsu and Momoka Yokoyama.
Tokyo, July 4, 2025 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. (MHIET), a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, announces a new lineup to SGP M450, a gas cogeneration system jointly developed with Toho Gas Co., Ltd., capable of hydrogen co-firing at a maximum of 15 vol%, with power output of 450kW. It is launched for Japan market at present.
To allow for hydrogen co-firing, the two companies modified the fuel gas and engine control systems of the GS6R2 city gas mono-firing engine to develop a hydrogen co-firing engine. More than 500 hours of demonstration testing was conducted at the Toho Gas Technology Research Institute (Tokai, Aichi Prefecture), confirming the reliability of hydrogen mixing and the reduction in CO2 emissions. In the demonstration testing, various simulated operating patterns were applied to verify capabilities required for power generation equipment to respond to fluctuations in power demand and maintain stable operation. The tests confirmed that there is no risk of abnormal combustion, and that the system can be operated in the same manner as the city gas mono-firing model.
The hydrogen blend ratio has been set at a maximum of 15 vol% to minimize the scope of change from conventional natural gas engines. The system has two operating modes, city gas 13A mono-firing mode and hydrogen co-firing mode, and can be switched between modes at any point during loaded operation. In hydrogen co-firing mode, only city gas is used for starting the engine, which means the same amount of initial load as city gas mono-firing mode can be accepted even in the event of a power outage, making the system highly reliable for business continuity plans (BCP).
In addition, for customers who are considering the use of hydrogen in the future, MHIET is also offering the “Hydrogen Ready” package. The system is configured for city gas mono-firing at the time of installation, but some equipment and functions necessary for hydrogen co-firing are also pre-incorporated, allowing for a shortened work period when the site is converted for hydrogen co-firing.
Cogeneration systems, owing to the expected reduction in the environmental load through energy conservation, are considered one of the distributed energy resources that should be pursued further to achieve carbon neutrality. Moreover, since they are power sources able to respond to power outages resulting from large-scale disasters or other emergencies, they are also expected to play a role in strengthening resilience.(Note) Going forward, MHIET will continue to promote the greater use of hydrogen and the widespread adoption of distributed power generation, contributing to the realization of a low-carbon and decarbonized world, and improving the resilience of society as a whole.
Resilience denotes toughness, recuperative power, and flexibility. It specifically refers to such initiatives as development of disaster-resilient infrastructure, expanding cooperation with businesses to support quick recovery, and strengthening information dissemination.
Pakistan’s national netball team poses with the national flag after winning the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 final (Plate Division Cup) by defeating Maldives at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium, Jeonju, South Korea, on July 4, 2025. — Reporter
JEONJU: Pakistan on Friday emerged victorious in the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 (Plate Division Cup), defeating Maldives with a commanding 60-35 score in a thrilling final in Jeonju, South Korea.
Pakistan’s triumph in the final showdown at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium marks an undefeated run in the Plate Division Cup, securing seven consecutive wins throughout the tournament.
From the outset, Pakistan demonstrated superior form, establishing a significant lead in the first quarter with a score of 17-5.
The members of the Pakistan team (white) and the Maldives team (red) can be seen in action during the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 final (Plate Division Cup) at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium, Jeonju, South Korea, on July 4, 2025. — Reporter
The national team maintained their dominance through the subsequent quarters, extending their advantage to 34-17 by halftime and 45-23 by the end of the third quarter.
Maldives were unable to take the lead at any point during the match, a testament to Pakistan’s consistent performance.
Key players for Pakistan, including Leya Raza Shah, Alisha Naveed, Sumayya Kouser, Haleema, Jasmine Farooq, Sumayya, Alina, Amani, Parisa and Farah Rasheed, delivered outstanding performances, contributing significantly to the team’s decisive victory.
The members of the Pakistan team (white) and the Maldives team (red) can be seen in action during the Asian Youth Girls Netball Championship 2025 final (Plate Division Cup) at the Jeonju Hwasan Gymnasium, Jeonju, South Korea, on July 4, 2025. — Reporter
The Chairman of the Pakistan Netball Federation, Mudassir Arian, along with President Sameen Malik and Secretary General Muhammad Riaz, extended their congratulations to the Pakistan team.
The Asian Youth Netball Championship 2025, organised under the auspices of the Asian Netball Federation, ran from June 27 to July 4.
