Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging trade secret theft that the company says occurred “at every level” of its operations. Beyond...
Pakistan’s KSE-100 index surged 44% in fiscal year 2025-26, closing at 180,301 points, powered largely by record worker remittances that hit $38.1 billion for the July-May...
Indonesia posted its first trade deficit in six years as imports soared and June inflation rose to 3.34% year-on-year. While most coverage attributes this to rising...
More than half of Russia’s seaborne oil exports now move on unregistered “shadow fleet” tankers designed to evade Western sanctions and price caps. The system runs...
China’s semiconductor exports rose 110% year-on-year in May 2026, part of a broader export surge driven by AI-related demand, while fixed-asset investment fell 4.1% in the...
The 13th Invest ASEAN conference in Singapore brought together 200 institutional investors managing a combined US$23 trillion in assets and 54 listed companies worth US$553 billion....
The mandatory CUSMA review deadline passed on July 1, 2026 without a new agreement. Rather than triggering an immediate shock, it defaulted to a rolling annual-review...
One of the least-covered consequences of the Western sanctions campaign against Russia is a quiet but historically significant shift in which currency actually settles global oil...
China’s economy has held up better than many expected through 2026’s geopolitical turbulence, with growth for the second quarter tracking toward roughly 4.5% year-on-year, according to...
Singapore’s economy delivered a genuine surprise in the first quarter of 2026: GDP growth came in at 6.0% year-on-year, exceeding flash estimates of 4.6% and marking...