The US called on Vietnam to release blogger Nguyen Lan Thang who was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for anti-state activities ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s weekend visit for talks in Hanoi.
North Korea said it tested a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile that could deliver multiple nuclear warheads to the US mainland, with leader Kim Jong Un on hand to see the launch of his latest weapon.
Top Justice Department antitrust officials are taking the unusual step of urging Wall Street’s main regulator to proceed with caution on a suite of proposals to overhaul the plumbing of equities markets.
Hong Kong’s interbank liquidity is approaching the lowest level in three years following a series of intervention by the city’s de facto central bank to defend the local currency’s peg to the dollar.
There’s a 27.5% chance a pandemic as deadly as Covid-19 could take place in the next decade as viruses emerge more frequently, with rapid vaccine rollout the key to reducing fatalities, according to a predictive health analytics firm.
Move over Don Draper: at least one agency thinks AI can devise better ads than humans ever could.
Chinese President Xi Jinping renewed his call for the world’s No. 2 economy to pursue self-reliance across a range of key industries during a trip this week to the southern province of Guangdong that highlighted his top priorities as he embarks on his third term.
Infosys Ltd. forecast sales that lagged estimates and warned customers in key sectors like finance are pulling back, a sign of how far corporations are tightening their budgets to weather an economic slowdown.
China’s recent economic indicators are providing contradictory signals about the recovery, raising doubts about the growth outlook and fueling debate over whether Beijing needs to step up its stimulus.
China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group Ltd.’s billionaire founder vowed to overtake Tesla Inc. as the world’s biggest maker of electric cars within three to five years back in early 2019. Four years later, the company’s stock has gone from boom to bust and it’s struggling to survive.
