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Permafrost is thawing on every continent that has it
Frozen ground is thawing deeper each summer almost everywhere it has been measured, according to the first global assessment of long-term monitoring data.
Tashkent and Beijing are expanding political dialogue across key institutional areas
Tashkent and Beijing are expanding political dialogue across key institutional areas As part of her visit to Beijing, Saida Mirziyoyeva, Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, met senior Chinese officials.
Indian IT firms turn to M&As to bridge AI capability gap
India is witnessing a foundational Artificial Intelligence gap when compared to markets like the US and China. This is a topic of intense debate among market experts, policy wonks and the government.
Taiwan releases sea warning as Typhoon Saudel skirts north towards China
Taiwan's Central Weather Administration issued a sea warning for Typhoon Saudel and forecast heavy rain across the island's south.
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Dhaka’s new leader holds India to ransom
Prior to Rahman's rise to power, the interim government’s leader, Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus, who was not himself elected but took power on a dubious basis, styled himself as the Chief Advisor.
Nepal floods leave over 150 dead, hundreds more missing
Nepal’s tourist board said more than 500 tourists were currently missing in the country, including more than 100 from India, 54 from the US, 33 from the UK and more than 100 from Nepal itself.
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US effort to pressure Central Asian states on AI development falling flat
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan pushing back.
South Korea's IBK sees $60mn in overseas fraud
The fraud originated at IBK's Chinese subsidiary, which partnered with a local non-bank institution for online loans.
China’s clean-energy boom runs into the limits of its power grid
China rejected an estimated 360 terawatt-hours of clean power in the six months through June, enough to supply Mexico for a year.
Skywell EVs catch fire across Turkey, Chinese engineers arrive to investigate
Rash of incidents has also sparked fierce public debate over post-sale support.
South Korea VS China in the race for a commercial Arctic trade route
South Korea is set to wave off a commercial container ship bound for Europe via the Arctic Ocean some time in late August, in the process testing the commercial viability of a northern sea corridor.
China's Africa relationship is getting bigger and narrower at once - IIF
China's economic hold over Africa has stopped running through loans and started running through container ships.
Rosatom is building 28 reactors abroad and negotiating 50 more
Rosatom is building 28 nuclear power units in nine countries and has signed agreements for 17 more, its chief executive told President Vladimir Putin.
Thailand is shrinking, and it got old before it got rich
Thailand's fertility rate fell from six children per woman to two in twenty years - as fast as China's - and it did it while the country was still poor.
China’s $303bn ‘shadow trade’ exposed as apparent Asia-wide tariff dodge network
The report, carrying the somewhat dramatic title of ‘The Great Transshipment Scam’ and headed by an image of a Trojan horse style graphic, says Chinese exporters increasingly routed goods through third countries
North Korea fires 10 missiles as Seoul doubles Trump's warhead estimate
North Korea fired about 10 ballistic missiles hours after Seoul put its nuclear arsenal at up to 120 warheads, twice the number Donald Trump cites.
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US-China proxy battle at the canal turns into a $3.5bn nightmare for Panama
CK Hutchison opens a second legal front against Panama City, taking its total claims past $3.5bn, as Washington, Beijing and the Mulino government each add fuel to a dispute none of them can fully control.
Asia's nuclear arms race stops being hypothetical
China has told Japan not to test its patience over nuclear weapons, in an exchange that has moved an Asian arms race from something strategists war-game to something foreign ministries now argue about in public. Beijing's warning followed months...
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China to maintain loan prime rates in August
The central bank's decision to hold key borrowing costs reflects a deliberate pivot towards fiscal deployment rather than monetary easing.
Cambodia's banks nurse decade-high bad loans as property slump bites
Cambodia's lenders are nursing their worst loan books in a decade, as a stalled property market squeezes a heavily dollarised banking sector already under US sanctions scrutiny.