India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to meet EU Trade Commissioner in Brussels on Monday

In a visit aimed at providing strategic direction and political impetus to the ongoing negotiations between India and the European Union (EU) for a potential Free Trade Agreement (FTA), India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is slated...

India and China resume direct flights after five-year freeze as ties thaw

India and China are resuming direct flights on Sunday after a five-year suspension as relations between the two countries improve. Direct flights between the two countries were suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and did not resume as...

Japan Minister Vows to Raise Defense Spending Ratio

Newsfrom Japan Society Oct 26, 2025 15:47 (JST) Tokyo, Oct. 26 (Jiji Press)--Japan's new Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Sunday vowed to "do everything possible" to secure funds to raise the share of the country's defense spending to its...

Chinese legislators hear reports at NPC standing committee session

BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese lawmakers met on Sunday to deliberate reports at an ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature. Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing...

A grassroots collective is pushing back against the nickel mining industry in North Maluku, Indonesia

Adlunfiqri Sigoro protests in front of Walshin Lihwa Corporation in Taiwan. Image courtesy of Adlunfiqri Segoro. Used with permission. This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from...

<![CDATA[Belite Bio announces NDA acceptance of tinlarbant by China’s NMPA]]>

Belite Bio recently announced the acceptance of its New Drug Application (NDA) with priority review for tinlarebant by the Center for Drug Evaluation of China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA).1 The phase 3 DRAGON study...

Wall Street And China Trample On Dollarization And The Federal Reserve

Traders at work in the Hong Kong stock exchange, 1986. (Photo by George Freston/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images “Chinese companies are pushing across the globe to conquer new markets, and U.S. financiers are making a mint by helping...

Should GVB invest in new Southeast Asian markets, or stay focused on Japan and Korea markets?

Malaysia and USA reach Agreement on Reciprocal Trade – US passenger cars for Malaysian market?

The governments of Malaysia and the USA have reached an agreement on an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, as announced today in a joint statement. You can read the full joint statement here. Naturally as an automotive content site, we immediately...

Cryptocurrency Classified As Property In India, Says Madras High Court

According to Bar & Bench, the petition was filed by an investor whose holdings of 3,532.30 XRP coins, purchased for Rs 1,98,516 in January 2024 on the WazirX platform operated by Zanmai Labs, were frozen following a cyberattack later that year....

Crypto’s biggest crash yet was proof the system works

Not a full month after one of the larger crypto liquidations, in which $3.62 billion in long positions was wiped out, the industry outdid itself. On the 10th of October, nearly $20 billion vanished. To make it sting even more, it happened in...

India to host four-day Asia Pacific aircraft accident investigators meet from Oct 28

India will host the Asia-Pacific region's aircraft accident investigators' meeting for the first time in the national capital from October 28-31. Around 90 aircraft accident investigators are expected to participate in the Asia Pacific Accident...

India’s coffee brewed in India, loved by world: PM Modi in ‘Mann Ki Baat’

New Delhi, Oct 26: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday highlighted Odisha’s renowned Koraput coffee during the 127th episode of his monthly radio programme, ‘Mann Ki Baat’, and said that India’s coffee is “coffee at its finest — brewed in India...

Trump says India cutting back Russian oil purchases 'completely'

US President Donald Trump once again claimed that India is going to stop buying oil from Russia, emphasising that India is cutting back Russian oil purchases "completely" while China will cut back "very substantially." Talking to reporters onboard...

China: Africa’s Most Reliable Companion on Africa’s Path to Development

By Jiang Feng and Yu Dunhai Development is an inalienable right of all countries, not a privilege of a few. Recently, Chinese Premier Li Qiang solemnly declared at the High-level Meeting on the Global Development Initiative hosted by China at the...

Global FMCG companies face disruption in Q2, upbeat about future growth

Multinational FMCG companies selling soap to soft drinks in the Indian market reported some impact on their sales in the September quarter from disruption owing to GST reforms, along with unusually heavy rains in parts of the country, but they see...

Navi Mumbai Weather Report: Will India-Australia ICC Women's World Cup 2025 SF Be Hit With Rain?

The India-Australia semi-final also faces a rain threat |courtesy - BCCI KEY HIGHLIGHTS India will face Australia in the 2025 Women's World Cup semi-final Matches in Navi Mumbai have been hit with rain The blockbuster clash on Thursday could also...

Chinese Company Launches Wind-Powered Data Center at the Bottom of the Sea

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images While the tech giants of the world hunger for energy to power their massive data centers, one Chinese company is pushing a solution that would make Jacques Cousteau’s eyes light...

India is completely cutting back on Russian oil: Trump claims

New York: US President Donald Trump has claimed again that India will ‘completely stop’ buying Russian oil. Trump’s assertion comes just as New Delhi has refused to toe the line saying that the country’s energy decision stems from national...

India-EU FTA talks intensify, Piyush Goyal set to meet his counterpart in Brussels

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal interacts with Berlin's Indian diaspora during an official visit to meet Global Industry leaders, in Berlin on October 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal...