Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin, a former ally of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina, will resign on Friday (July 24) halfway through his term, his spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, days ...
India’s Cockroach movement holds a capital sit-in as police crack down on protests
Thousands of young protesters were camped on the streets of New Delhi on Thursday, defying new restrictions in the latest show of strength for a movement that has become one of the biggest challenges ...
CJP protest: The youth movement India’s Modi didn’t see coming
The CJP protest began with exam paper leaks. It became India's biggest student movement in years - why?
Inside China’s all-out push to catch up with American AI chips
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.