India’s government has become a central focus of a bitter struggle over the future of Tata, the country’s largest conglomerate, as rival camps lobby senior officials over the leadership of its main
China is pushing to position itself as a custodian of foreign sovereign gold reserves, a move aimed at strengthening its role in the global bullion market and reducing reliance on Western financial
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X-Press Feeders, the former operator of the ill-fated container ship X-Press Pearl, has announced it is pausing payouts tied to what is now recognized as Sri Lanka’s largest environmental disaster. The decision
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New Zealand is poised to appoint a woman to lead its central bank for the first time, a move aimed at restoring credibility after a period of leadership turmoil, according to a
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Sherard Cowper-Coles, HSBC Holdings Plc’s former head of public affairs, is reportedly considering a senior role at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter,
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China’s securities regulator has advised some local brokerages to temporarily pause their real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation activities in Hong Kong, Reuters has learned from two sources familiar with the matter. The guidance
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor The annual Container Port Performance Index issued by the World Bank yesterday offers a blunt reminder of how fragile, yet indispensable, the global maritime system has become.
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Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef and once Israel’s most valuable intelligence asset, has declared that a Palestinian state “will never exist,” dismissing it as an “artificial construct.”
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Super Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful storm of 2025, is churning through the South China Sea after battering the northern Philippines, where it left at least two people dead and several
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by Nil Yossi Cohen’s The Sword of Freedom is far more than an intelligence memoir; it is an erudite dissection of geopolitics, a meditation on destiny, and a confessional reflection on the
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The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) has announced the revocation of prestigious national science and technology awards previously granted to five individuals after investigations revealed violations of law, discipline, and
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China’s first electromagnetic catapult-equipped aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has successfully completed its first catapult-assisted takeoff and arrested landing training, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy announced on Monday. The milestone involved
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When Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico in 1519, he encountered cities, markets, schools, courts, astronomers, and rulers — institutions strikingly familiar to those he had left behind in Spain. Two civilizations, separated
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A large international study has found that children born to mothers with gestational diabetes face a higher likelihood of developing attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, presented
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In a groundbreaking development, scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design the first-ever viruses capable of infecting and killing strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli). The achievement, reported by Nature, marks
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Nvidia Corp. announced Monday that it plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, aiming to build new data centers and infrastructure to support the growing demand for artificial intelligence workloads.
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