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While BASF has exited two joint ventures in the Xinjiang region it is stepping up its presence in China due to high production costs in Europe

Beijing denies allegations of abuse

BASF exits Xinjiang ventures after Uyghur abuse reports

A Swedish CV90 trains in northern Norway during a NATO exercise in March 2024

Strengthening 'shared military capabilities'

Nordics, Lithuania plan joint purchase of combat vehicles

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas tells AFP that President Donald Trump's tariffs have brought uncertainty

Warns of increased risk of social unrest

World could boost growth by reducing trade doubt: IMF chief economist

China and the United States -- the world's two largest economies -- are engaged in a mounting tit-for-tat trade row that has sparked global recession fears and rattled markets

Predicted four percent growth this year

IMF slashes China growth forecasts as trade war deepens

Sean O'Neill is representing Washington at the 37th ASEAN-US Dialogue, being held in Siem Reap

'America first'

US official asserts Trump's agenda in tariff-hit Southeast Asia

Bluesky social network says it will proactively verify who it behind accounts that be blue check marks of authenticity to bolster trust in the platform that challenges X, formerly Twitter

'Trust is everything'

X rival Bluesky adds blue checks for trusted accounts

Solar panels are the latest target of US tariffs, with duties of up to 3,521 percent on imports from Southeast Asia in a move against alleged Chinese dumping

'Unfair practices'

US to impose new duties on solar imports from Southeast Asia

The Shanghai auto show is the world's biggest and will showcase some of the latest offerings in the electric vehicle sector

Leading the charge

Auto Shanghai to showcase electric competition at sector's new frontier

With his storm of tariffs, President Donald Trump has torched ties with Beijing and likely wrecked any hope of meeting his counterpart Xi Jinping in the near term, analysts say

Analysts assess

Trump tariffs torch chances of meeting with China's Xi

Google contends the US is overreaching by asking a federal judge to order it to sell its popular Chrome web browser

Judicial intervention

US urges curb of Google's search dominance as AI looms

Dancers welcomed US Vice President JD Vance to New Delhi

US VP Vance meets Indian PM Modi for tough talks on trade

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 21, 2025 shows, L-R, US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the Economic Club of Chicago on April 16, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 7, 2025

US assets slump again as Trump sharpens attack on Fed chief

Oklahoma City are known as AI early adopters

Sport embracing data

AI only just beginning to revolutionize the NBA game

Alleged scam centre workers beside dismantled electronic appliances during a crackdown operation in Myanmar

Seeking new victims

Asian scam centre crime gangs expanding worldwide: UN

Klaus Schwab was the driving force behind the World Economic Forum becoming an annual gathering of the world's rich and powerful

World Economic Forum

Davos meet founder Klaus Schwab steps down from WEF board

While the rest of the world has been slapped with a blanket 10 percent tariff, China faces levies of up to 145 percent on many products

China slams 'appeasement' of US as nations rush to secure trade deals

Josh Staph, CEO of Duncan Toys said toy shipments have ground to a halt in the industry with 145 percent tariffs on imports from China

'Complete nightmare'

Trump tariffs stunt US toy imports as sellers play for time

Sex tourism has developed as a dark flipside to the bustling Kabukicho nightlife district

Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan

Donald Trump has threatened tariffs on countries that target tech giants with taxes

Predictable position

Taxes on super rich and tech giants stall under Trump

Boeing and Airbus have big order backlogs

Tariffs could lift Boeing and Airbus plane prices even higher

Analysts say US chipmakers like Nvidia, whose CEO Jensen Huang is seen here, will face intensified competition from China and other countries due to new constraints imposed by the US government on chip sales to China

Opposite effect

Analysts warn US could be handing chip market to China

Dozens of humanoid robots joining a half marathon in Beijing showcasing China's drive to lead the global race in cutting-edge technology

Humanoid robots stride into the future with world's first half-marathon

The Trump administration is blaming a Chinese lab for the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak that took millions of lives and forced communities to social distance to prevent its spread, as seen here in a park in New York City in May 2020

White House touts Covid-19 'lab leak' theory on revamped site

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, seen in April 2025, said he considered Fed independence to be a matter of law

Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Trump goes to war with the Fed

In light of recent tariffs, Ford has halted shipments to China of F-150 Raptors, Mustangs and Broncos

US-China trade conflict

Ford 'adjusts' some exports to China due to tariffs

Donald Trump has hit out at Fed boss Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates

Holiday-thinned

Tokyo leads gains in most Asian markets on trade deal hopes

China's vast southern province of Guangdong has long been its biggest manufacturing hub

Sky-high tariffs

China's manufacturing backbone feels Trump trade war pinch

Syrian civil servants must queue at one of two state banks or affiliated ATMs, and withdrawals are capped

Saddening truths

Cash crunch leaves Syrians queueing for hours to collect salaries

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