Oil prices rose sharply on Monday, climbing as much as 1.5 percent, after OPEC+ members reaffirmed their decision to pause production increases in early 2025 and renewed geopolitical tensions involving Venezuela unsettled
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India’s telecoms ministry has quietly directed all major smartphone manufacturers to preload a government-run cybersecurity app on every new device sold in the country, a move that is expected to trigger friction
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Airbus fleets began returning to normal operations on Monday after the European planemaker accelerated a global software update affecting roughly half of its A320-family jets. The recall, prompted by a vulnerability to
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Revenues at China’s top military firms fell last year as a sweeping anti-corruption drive disrupted arms contracts and procurement, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Cryptocurrency prices fell sharply on Monday, with Bitcoin sliding as much as 6% and Ether dropping more than 7%, adding momentum to a selloff that has gripped digital assets for weeks. According
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Two of China’s largest private property data agencies failed to release their monthly home sales figures for November, raising fresh questions about the outlook for the country’s real estate sector, Bloomberg reported.
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Taiwan is preparing to purchase its first weapons for a major air-defense initiative announced less than two months ago, underscoring the island’s determination to get the program operational as China intensifies military
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A Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence company is seeking a $300 million loan to purchase advanced Nvidia Corp. chips for use in Japan by a Chinese client, highlighting the complex regulatory and financial
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Norway’s $2.1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is supporting Microsoft Corp. in a contentious shareholder vote concerning the company’s human rights practices, Bloomberg reported. Some investors had proposed requiring Microsoft to enhance its
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Editorial Sri Lanka continues to suffer from the havoc of a disaster that every credible warning had foretold, yet the government chose to sidestep. President Dissanayake, emerging almost 72 hours after the
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