Extreme warm weather to hit economic indicators like food inflation, low level of productivity and unemployment, warn economists.
Qatar, which hosted the 2022 Fifa World Cup, wants to have 6 million international visitors annually by 2030 – and it plans on attracting them by hosting sports, arts, fashion and other events.
The government said citizens from China, Vietnam and India will need to take part in lottery-style bids for the programme from next year.
Anwar said his government’s focus on digital transformation and AI would be enough to push the country forward.
The departure ends months of speculation in Silicon Valley about the future of a top AI researcher and OpenAI co-founder since he largely disappeared from public view.
Malaysia’s fuel prices are among the cheapest in the world because of state support.
Foxconn reported a net profit of US$679 million in the first quarter, which missed analysts’ average estimate of US$897 million.
The deal, unveiled on Tuesday, marks one of the biggest takeovers in Taiwan outside the semiconductor industry.
US imports of used cooking oil more than tripled in 2023, with more than half coming from China, according to the US International Trade Commission.
Andrei Belousov, Russia’s new defence minister, has three great passions – art, the state and President Vladimir Putin.
The Shanghai-based company says its placement on a US list of firms accused of aiding China’s military has caused it to suffer reputational injury and lost business opportunities.
Rescuers raced to find any survivors after the signage fell at a petrol station in east of India’s financial capital on Monday, trapping dozens of people underneath.
Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s comments come amid a protracted US-China trade war that’s heightened as the Biden administration is set to quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs.
The Tokyo-based company earned a better-than-expected net income in the March quarter, helped by investment gains.
‘In terms of geographical make-up, Shenzhen-Hong Kong is quite similar to Johor-Singapore’, the Malaysian state’s chief minister said.
China’s shock credit contraction is adding pressure on the government to spend more money – and on the central bank to help.
Russia’s defence ministry on Sunday claimed its troops had made deeper advances in the Kharkiv border region, ‘liberating’ a total of nine settlements over the weekend.
Every year, Israel marks Independence Day with a live-streamed torch-lighting ceremony at its Jerusalem national cemetery. This year, as Israel turns 76 in the middle of a ferocious war, things are different.
In just six decades of independence, Singapore has transformed itself into Asia’s wealthiest nation and a financial services giant. Incoming PM Lawrence Wong has his work cut out for him to maintain that standing.
In an attempt to limit the impact of data showing foreign funds selling on market sentiment, Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges plan to cease displaying real-time figures on purchases or sales of local stocks through trading links with Hong Kong.
Luxury homes – categorised as those priced over 15 million rupees – made up more than one-fifth of all residential units sold across India’s seven top cities in the first quarter.
Rosmah Mansor has been asked to give up the items in her possession and pay US$346 million, or a sum determined by the court.
OK Lim faced charges of cheating HSBC Holdings and instigating a Hin Leong employee to forge documents, according to a newspaper report. The charges involved a total of US$111.7 million.
Turnout for phase three of the country’s seven-phase election was 65.7 per cent, lower than phases one and two and down from 67.4 per cent in the last general election in 2019.
UBS may start rewarding its bankers for referring clients to the firm’s wealth management business, in a first for the Zurich-based lender
Microsoft will launch its own online store for mobile-game consumables in July, creating an alternative to Apple and Google’s app stores and their fees.
Apple issued a rare apology for an advertisement touting its latest iPad Pro that upset many creatives and other customers. The company also said it will not air the ad on television as planned.
Banks like HSBC and Standard Chartered are urging the British government to amend a proposed legislation that aims to impose restrictions on doing business in China.
The UK ended the tax-free shopping incentive for tourists in 2021 and has resisted strong lobbying from retailers and other companies linked to the tourism sector.
More than 100 Air India Express cabin crew reported sick before their rostered flight duty at the last minute, forcing 85 flights to be cancelled on Thursday.
