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The country's top court has suspended Paetongtarn Shinawatra pending a hearing over claims linked to a phone call with Cambodia's influential former leader Hun Sen
Canada said last year it was reviewing sanctions on Chinese surveillance equipment firms, including Hikvision, after rights advocates alleged they aided repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Hedge funds sold stocks of energy-related companies in every major region as tension in the Middle East eased after the Israel-Iran ceasefire was announced and the price of oil plunged
'We're going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of time. In fact, we'll have so many we won't know what to do with them,' the US President said...
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Water War: India Plans Dam to Counter China’s Mega Dam in Tibet26 Aug 2025
Delhi plans a big dam to counter impacts from a huge Chinese dam, which it says will divert a third of the water at the border and a big dry-season problem...
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Lee Survives White House Test, Trump Keen to Meet Kim Jong Un26 Aug 2025
In the latest episode of The Oval Office, Trump meets South Korea's leader, says he'd like to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un, and maybe fly to China with President Lee....
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China Emissions Fall In First Half But Global Climate Alarm Persists25 Aug 2025
The world’s biggest carbon emitter, China, has seen its emissions fall by 1% in the first half of this year, but the news is not as great elsewhere...
China's foreign minister Wang Yi discussed mining and Belt and Road projects, the Afghan Taliban said on Wednesday; approach comes after return of 1.5m refugees this year...
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Global Disaster Losses Soar to $80 Billion in First Half: Swiss Re06 Aug 2025
A preliminary estimate by insurance giant Swiss Re said losses from natural catastrophes soared in the first half of 2025...
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Local Officials in China Backed Export of ‘Zero-Mileage Used Cars’24 Jun 2025
Twenty local governments, such as cargo hubs like Guangdong and Sichuan, have supported the export of new cars to boost provincial sales data, 'dumping unsold subsidized cars' abroad...
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Not a Single Asian Country Met Air Quality Standards in 202411 Mar 2025
Countries in Central and South Asia continued to see some of the worst air quality, with India's New Delhi being the most polluted capital city in the world...
Indonesia has just announced a huge solar power project, while Australia has ramped up home battery sales and African nations snap up Chinese modules...
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S Korea’s Lee Will Try to Pacify Trump With Big Shipbuilding Boost25 Aug 2025
As he headed to Washington, Lee sent a delegation to Beijing, with a message calling for normalised relations with China, while he has offered huge help with US shipbuilding...
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Nvidia CEO Meets TSMC, in Talks With US on New China Chip22 Aug 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits TMSC in Taipei. His company is working on a new chip named the B30A, based on its Blackwell architecture, that will be more powerful than the H20 model...
From talks on resuming direct flights to a series of high-level bilateral visits, longtime rivals China and India are quietly and cautiously strengthening ties...
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Extreme Sudden Rainfall Kills Hundreds in Pakistan and India19 Aug 2025
Huge cloudbursts cause havoc in mountainous parts of India and Pakistan, while China has seen peak levels in 330 rivers in recent weeks...
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Tax Reforms Boost Indian Markets Even As US ‘Calls Off’ Trade Talks18 Aug 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to slash consumption taxes on a range of products, marking the country's deepest tax cuts since 2017...
Billionaire Masayoshi Son backs his long-time ally Lip-Bu Tan, now Intel CEO, with $2bn share investment amid push for huge data centre venture with OpenAI in the US...
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Altman Agrees the AI Market is a ‘Bubble’ That Could Soon Burst18 Aug 2025
AI pioneer Sam Altman says the money being thrown at some players in the industry is 'insane' and 'not rational'...
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Foxconn, SoftBank Focus on Data Centre Gear in Ohio for Stargate18 Aug 2025
Asian tech giants say they will make data centre equipment in a factory in Lordstown, as part of the huge Stargate AI project...
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