A preliminary estimate by insurance giant Swiss Re said losses from natural catastrophes soared in the first half of 2025

With China demanding a stake in the $23bn sale, officials in Beijing and Washington may need to negotiate who gets what, as part of a bilateral trade deal

YouTube axes thousands of accounts set up by China, Russia and others in move to counter disinformation. Meta also cut millions of profiles for inauthentic or 'spammy' content

A rapid increase in global warming and unprecedented climate change threatens the availability of water to chipmakers' copper suppliers, PwC says

China said BRICs is not seeking 'confrontation' after the bloc issued a statement that Trump damned as 'anti-American.' He threatened to hit all members with a 10% tariff

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

Closing the Strait would spur a big rise in the price of oil, but analysts say shipping and air travel to the Middle East has already been hit and there may be other ways Tehran seeks to strike back against the US.

Chinese AI developers reportedly carried hard drives with a vast amount of data to a computing centre in Malaysia with top US chips to build an AI model they later took home, a new report says

Taiwan has signed a deal to invest in the project, while Japan, South Korea and Thailand have expressed interest in buying LNG if the 1,300km pipeline is completed

Democrat Senators in the US have called for a probe into whether the Trump Administration is using trade talks with foreign governments to benefit Musk and his Starlink business

Deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars, involving a vast number of advanced AI chips, plus data centres in US, were unveiled in the Middle East this week, despite long-held fears about Gulf nations ties to China

Trump administration officials are looking to dump the tiered approach to access to advanced chips and shift to a global licensing regime with government-to-government agreements, sources say