Putin warns Russia won’t be stopped after record election win
A defiant Vladimir Putin said Russia won’t be stopped from pursuing its goals after he swept to a record victory in a presidential election whose outcome was pre-determined.
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A defiant Vladimir Putin said Russia won’t be stopped from pursuing its goals after he swept to a record victory in a presidential election whose outcome was pre-determined.
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The world’s supply of tantalum, an essential component in most computers and mobile phones, is under threat as armed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have encircled a key trading hub.
By Bloomberg News
Ayala Land Inc., the Philippines’ largest property developer by sales, is selling more expensive homes to boost its bottom line as higher interest rates squeeze its less affluent buyers.
BOND investors are urging squabbling European Union (EU) leaders to get their act together on defense spending and make the bloc’s trillion-euro bond program permanent.
China’s copper smelters are at a critical juncture after fees for processing imported ore collapsed to single figures, raising focus on whether they will keep resisting pressure for production cuts.
For several years, Truong My Lan held meetings on the 39th floor of the sleek Times Square tower in the heart of Vietnam’s commercial hub, Ho Chi Minh City. There, in a room that acted as her command center, she allegedly wove a $12.5 billion tapestry of fraud and corruption, according to the police reports that form the basis of a court case against her.
In 2019, Leung joined a Hong Kong movement to boycott Chinese-owned restaurants like many protesters opposing President Xi Jinping’s encroachment of the former British colony. Now she and her peers regularly go out of their way to the neighboring mainland city of Shenzhen for cheap food and massages.
Some of Asia’s biggest coffee-producing nations are finding it more challenging to satisfy the caffeine cravings in their home markets.
NEW US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are shaking up the market for the original cryptocurrency after widening demand for the token and attracting more than $7 billion of net inflows in less than two months.
SUMITOMO Mitsui Financial Group Inc.’s CEO said he is considering an expansion of the bank’s alliance with Jefferies Financial Group Inc. into Asia as he plays catch-up with Japanese rivals who moved more rapidly to build out their investment banking overseas.
THE Texas Blockchain Council, an industry association for Bitcoin miners including Riot Platforms Inc., is suing the US Department of Energy’s statistics unit over a mandatory survey on their power consumption.
Demand has grown so fervent for corporate bonds that investors are once again willing to finance big mergers and acquisitions (M&A)—something they hesitated to do for much of last year.
For their first attempt at making food from insects, Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga started with a bug burger.
Russia lifted a ban on five Ecuadorian banana exporters, resolving for now a dispute over the Latin American nation’s swap of decades-old weaponry with the United States.
Traders piled in to buy cocoa options this week as futures surged to record highs on concern global supplies will be tight after drought and disease ravaged crops in top West African producers.
CHINA’S efforts to arrest a $7-trillion stock market rout are evoking memories from 2015, when Beijing took drastic steps to stem a crash. This time, investors say, the problems are much more entrenched.
Boeing Co. found more mistakes with holes drilled in the fuselage of its 737 Max jet, a setback that could further slow deliveries on a critical program already restricted by regulators over quality lapses.
For families across China preparing for Lunar New Year, the most important celebration in the calendar, pork is a must.
Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit was ordered by a Pennsylvania jury to pay more than $2.2 billion to a former Roundup user who blamed his cancer on the weedkiller in the largest verdict so far in five years of litigation over the herbicide.
Airbnb Inc. is planning to increase the guest service fee for cross-currency bookings as the vacation-rental company pushes into more international markets to boost growth.
Magnitogorsk, in the Ural mountains, was developed as a symbol of Soviet industrial might and its capacity for economic modernization. Today, a new, 75 billion-ruble (roughly $840 million) coking plant in the steel town is being built by a Chinese engineering giant and hundreds of Chinese workers.
At a village hall near Loch Linnhe, a sliver of water sandwiched between the Hebrides and Glasgow, Stewart Hawthorn laid out his plan to build the biggest salmon farm in the United Kingdom near this aging rural community. Once completed, the managing director of Long Loch Salmon said, it would create at least 16 jobs. It would feature eight enclosures holding up to 8,000 tons of fish, with a density double the industry standard. And most importantly, he claimed, it would help alleviate one of the biggest problems plaguing the business—excessive death rates.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured $500 million in commitments from investors toward a $1 billion goal, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
Chaos in the Red Sea is starting to disrupt shipments of produce from coffee to fruit—and threatening to halt a slowdown in food inflation that brought some relief to strained consumers.
Apple Inc. is shutting a 121-person team related to artificial intelligence (AI) operations in San Diego, leaving many employees at risk of termination, according to people familiar with the matter.
An international market for biodiversity credits is gaining traction, but as questions arise concerning the risk of greenwashing, proponents are seeking to distance these new instruments from their much-criticized predecessor, carbon offsets.
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