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The Trump administration said it deported a group of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to the conflict-ridden African country of South Sudan, following a weeks-long legal saga that had kept the deportees in a
Vietnamese stocks hit highest in over three years Vietnamese stocks climbed to their highest in over three years after U.S. President Donald Trump said a trade deal with Vietnam has been struck. The benchmark Vietnam Index rose 0.3% to its highest since April 2022, data from LSEG showed. Top movers of the index stem from […]
Have you ever thought about selling your kidney? A piece of your liver? For many people in Asia, these difficult questions are an everyday reality. The global demand for organs is growing rapidly, with over 100,000 people on the US national organ waiting list in 2023, over 13,000 on the European waiting list in 2023, […]
Introduction: Trump tariffs blocked by US court in New York Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of business, the financial markets and the world economy. A federal court in the US has blocked Donald Trump from imposing sweeping trade tariffs under an emergency powers law. A three-judge panel at the court of international […]
The gathering of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers is usually a staid meeting, but this year it offered more intrigue and urgency as countries throughout the region scrambled to engage the United States in talks before a 90-day pause on punishing tariffs expires in July. The meeting, which took place this week on South Korea’s […]
View of the Skytree from Ueno and Asakusa in Tokyo Jackal Pan | Moment | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Wednesday after key Wall Street benchmarks rose on easing U.S.-China trade tensions. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slipped 0.68%, giving up gains after four consecutive positive sessions. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.53%. Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX […]
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the India-Pakistan Wagah border post, about 35kms from Amritsar on April 24, 2025. India took a raft of punitive diplomatic measures against Pakistan on April 23, accusing Islamabad of supporting “cross-border terrorism” after a deadly attack on civilians in Kashmir. (Photo by Narinder […]
Stocks in Asia gained on Monday after weekend talks signaled that progress had been made in easing trade tensions between the United States and China. Benchmark indexes in Japan and South Korea edged higher in early trading on Monday morning. Stocks in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in China climbed about 1 percent, while futures pointed […]
Fifty years ago, my father, an American war reporter, climbed over the wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and scrambled onto a chopper that took off from a roof in the mission. “My last view of Saigon was through the tail door of the helicopter,” he wrote in the Chicago Daily News. “Then the […]
US trade officials are preparing to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four south-east Asian countries, while the International Energy Agency has said lessons from the energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had not been fully learned. The US commerce department has announced the new tariffs, targeting companies […]