By Takaya Yamaguchi and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Japan's finance ministry is considering setting the assumed interest rate for calculating debt servicing costs at a 29-year high of 3 ...
India envoy meets Bangladesh ministers amid uncertainty over Rahman BRICS visit
India's envoy Dinesh Trivedi met two Bangladesh ministers to discuss economic and healthcare cooperation. The outreach came as distrust over Tarique Rahman's possible India visit and Sheikh Hasina's ...
India vs Netherlands live in FIH Women’s World Cup: Scores, updates, commentary, news
India take on Netherlands in the first match of the second pool phase of the FIH Women's Hockey World Cup 2026.
India seal a 165-run win in Galle as Manav Suthar’s 10-wicket haul sinks Sri Lanka
GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) — India won the first test in Galle by 165 runs on the fifth day just minutes before a heavy downpour might have saved Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Left-arm spinner Manav Suthar took ...
China moves to wrap up saga of troubled property giant Evergrande after founder gets life sentence
Chinese authorities are moving to finish cleaning up the mess left by the collapse of the Evergrande real estate empire, years after its default with some $300 billion in liabilities. A court in ...
Tesla to fix software for millions of China-made, imported EVs in China
BEIJING, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Tesla will roll out software fixes for millions of vehicles in China, the country's market regulator said on Monday, marking the automaker's largest-ever recall in the ...
America’s Scientific Elite Is Fueling China’s Military Machine
U.S. scientists continue to publish widely with Chinese military researchers, helping the PLA and China to grow stronger.
Japan executes man who killed five in Pachinko parlour fire
Japan has executed a man who killed five people in a gaming parlour fire in 2009, making this the first time in more than a year that the country has enacted the death sentence. Sunao Takami, 58, had doused the pachinko gaming parlour near his home in Osaka with gasoline and set it alight, killing ...
Japan headline inflation rate hits highest this year as energy prices bite
Core inflation — which strips out prices of fresh food but includes energy — was in line with expectations, coming in at 1.8%.
Bangladesh elects ruling party veteran Alamgir as president
Bangladesh elects Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir by parliamentary vote, filling vacancy after Shahabuddin's resignation.