Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD will immediately recall more than 180,000 cars to address a manufacturing defect affecting a brake pedal component, China’s market regulator said on Friday. The recall covers 183,211
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a court to dismiss allegations that it failed to properly investigate sanctions violations by Standard Chartered, a case that has drawn attention at the
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Senior former employees of CapitaLand Group Pte allegedly accepted bribes from a longtime contractor in India, according to court filings in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. The accusations surfaced in a civil lawsuit brought
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The Czech general election this autumn, once seemingly a smooth path to victory for billionaire politician Andrej Babiš, has been thrown into unexpected turmoil by an extraordinary scandal involving a plot to
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Hamamatsu, a city long regarded as one of Japan’s key industrial powerhouses, is turning to immigration in an effort to counteract a shrinking population and an exodus of young workers to Tokyo.
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Brussels is revisiting a centuries-old transport link with newfound urgency, as NATO considers the Iron Rhine railway a potential strategic corridor for moving forces eastwards in the event of a conflict with
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has cleared its founder, Klaus Schwab, of wrongdoing after an internal investigation and appointed BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and Roche vice-chair André Hoffmann as interim chairs
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Farmer groups in India have called for a boycott of certain US products in response to Washington’s latest tariffs and demands that New Delhi open its agricultural market to American companies. Trade
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An estimated two million illegal firearms are circulating in South Africa, posing a major threat to public safety, opposition party Rise Mzansi has warned. The party accused the South African Police Service
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China has rolled out its first-ever nationwide childcare subsidy in a bid to address its worsening demographic decline, according to a report by the South China Morning Post. The programme will provide
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India’s IT services behemoths are urgently reinventing themselves to keep pace with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, rolling out innovative AI tools for clients across sectors from banking to sports, even
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi finds himself at the centre of a deepening geopolitical confrontation as former US President Donald Trump threatens to escalate tariffs on Indian imports, in retaliation for New
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Argentinian President Javier Milei is facing serious allegations of unlawful surveillance after a leaked intelligence document revealed that his administration may have authorised espionage operations against political opponents, trade unions, pensioner groups
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A recent investigation into the real-world charging performance of the UK’s ten bestselling electric vehicles has revealed that most fall well short of their advertised maximum charging speeds — a finding that
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Israel is preparing a new military offensive in central Gaza to free the remaining hostages, according to a report by The Times UK. The proposed expansion, led by Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
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A harrowing and long-suppressed chapter of Japan’s wartime past is finally coming to light, as survivors and campaigners in the village of Kurokawa shed silence over the fate of 15 young Japanese
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