Xi confidant leads fevered effort for domestic alternatives to win AI race. Chinese AI companies get warned that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor.
Bahrain ran out of oil – the economic transformation that shocked the Middle East
Bahrain was the first Gulf nation to discover oil, but it also became one of the first to face the reality of declining oil reserves. Instead of relying on petroleum forever, the country reinvented ...
Resumption of oil exports: Will Yemen recover its economic lifeline?
Yemen has proven oil reserves estimated at three billion barrels, but the security environment hinders its export.
Tajikistan’s state budget revenues exceed 3.9 billion USD in H1
Tajikistan's state budget revenues totaled 36.4 billion somoni (about 3.94 billion U.S. dollars) in the first six months of 2026, Tajik Finance Minister Fayziddin Kahorzoda said Thursday.
Uzbekistan’s Uzum wins place in CNBC-Statista’s ranking of world’s top fintech companies
By Mokhi Sultanova in Tashkent Uzbekistan's digital ecosystem operator Uzum has been named among the World's Top Fintech Companies by CNBC and global market research firm Statista for the first time ...
India relaxes e-commerce investment rules for exports in win for Amazon
India's government on Thursday eased foreign investment rules to allow e-commerce companies to buy products directly from Indian sellers and then sell them to overseas customers, a major win for ...
Could you run a country on just three hours of sleep? Japan’s PM says she does
Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi says she survives on zero to three hours a night, and people are reacting.
Japan’s popular prime minister is burning political capital fast
STANDING BEFORE an elaborate array of white flowers, Takaichi Sanae, Japan’s prime minister, delivered a speech at a memorial this month in honour of Abe Shinzo, a former prime minister assassinated ...
Support for India’s ‘cockroaches’ goes international
From New York to London, supporters of “cockroach” protests are going global, amplifying a movement in India that has become one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
China is gaining troubling military know-how from Russia
T he help China gives Russia in the war in Ukraine has long caused dismay in Western countries. Exports of ostensibly civilian components such as engines and electronics end up in ...