Blackstone plans to double its investments in India to $100 billion within five years, with chief operating officer Jonathan Gray describing the country as the firm’s best-performing market and expressing confidence in
Japan’s Finance Ministry will seek a record ¥36.6 trillion ($230 billion) for debt-servicing costs in its initial budget request for the next fiscal year, according to documents, highlighting the growing financial burden
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For more than two decades, Heilongjiang Agriculture never reported a first-half loss as a public company. That record is ending this year after Chinese tax authorities demanded back payments linked to tax
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For President Vladimir Putin, the war in Ukraine has reached a difficult juncture. Russia continues to present itself as prepared to confront the West, while its military campaign faces a more immediate
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat to unleash an “economic D-Day” against Iran risks placing the United States on a collision course with China, Tehran’s main trading partner and the buyer of
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China is expanding a global network of gold vaults and accelerating central bank gold purchases as Beijing seeks to strengthen the yuan’s role in international trade, according to an S&P Global Ratings
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Singapore is offering families more than €47,000 for each child under the age of 18 as part of a new package announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, in one of the city-state’s
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The MV Ocean Winner was carrying iron ore from Odisha to Singapore when it disappeared from tracking systems nearly two days after leaving Paradip Port. Twenty of its crew members are Chinese,
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He does not wear a white coat and he is not a doctor. Yet for the past twenty years, Marcos has been a familiar presence at Madrid’s Fundación Jiménez Díaz, attending an
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China’s Alibaba said on Sunday it plans to raise HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) through a share placement to finance the development of artificial intelligence, in what would become the largest-ever primary follow-on
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Tesla and eight other automakers will recall about 4.3 million vehicles in China over concerns that emergency door-release mechanisms could be difficult to locate or operate, marking the country’s largest automotive recall
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The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating drivers’ accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, delivering the second-largest penalty yet imposed under Europe’s General
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The project is expected to have a capacity of 80 to 90 megawatts and will be developed at the Vatican-owned Santa Maria di Galeria estate on the north-western outskirts of Rome. Sources
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TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a dispute with the US Justice Department over the protection of children’s data, bringing a major legal confrontation over the short-video
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The Reserve Bank of India likely intervened in the foreign exchange market on Friday to support the rupee, according to three traders cited by Reuters, as elevated oil prices and sustained corporate
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Hyundai Motor’s South Korean union staged its first full strike in a decade on Friday after wage negotiations stalled, escalating a labour dispute centred not only on pay but also on retirement
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