Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
Saudi Arabia has temporarily shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack damaged the vital crude conduit, adding to mounting disruptions to energy flows across the Middle East as the
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North Korea, a country rarely associated with leisure or consumer choice, is experiencing an unlikely boom in coffee shops, luxury malls, waterparks, resorts and other forms of entertainment as leader Kim Jong
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Hungary’s new government is stepping up pressure on Chinese companies, reopening previously approved investment and funding agreements while tightening environmental regulations for factories, a shift that is beginning to disrupt plans by
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Thailand’s rapid expansion of data centres is raising concerns over public safety, pollution and regulatory oversight after authorities discovered that a facility in Bangkok had been illegally storing 200,000 litres of oil.
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The price of crude oil has risen to its highest level since May as renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify concerns over energy supplies. A barrel of North Sea Brent
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OpenAI is calling for mandatory national artificial intelligence safety requirements in the United States, arguing that the rapid increase in AI capabilities has made voluntary industry commitments inadequate and raised new concerns
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China’s leading artificial intelligence chipmakers are sharply raising prices for current and next-generation processors as a global shortage of high-bandwidth memory squeezes efforts to build domestic alternatives to Nvidia, according to people
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s much-anticipated visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, is expected to advance a cautious diplomatic thaw between the two Asian giants. Yet
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Criminal proceedings against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei began on Wednesday in a closely watched US federal trial, bringing renewed scrutiny to allegations first made nearly eight years ago that the company stole
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Singapore is to introduce a one-off increase in the pay of government ministers, including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, despite continuing domestic disapproval over the high salaries received by the country’s political leaders.
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