China Chairs 37th APEC Ministerial Meeting, Setting Stage for Shenzhen Leaders’ Summit Amid Global Trade Fragmentation
🔊 Listen to this article BEIJING, Nov. 5 — China hosted the 37th APEC Ministerial Meeting on Foreign and Trade…
China’s Wind and Solar Capacity Surpasses 2,000 GW, Shattering 2030 Targets and Reshaping Grid Dynamics
🔊 Listen to this article BEIJING, Oct. 29 — China’s combined wind and solar capacity has pushed past a major…
BRICS Parliamentary Forum Opens in New Delhi With Call for Multipolar Order, Joint AI Council
🔊 Listen to this article NEW DELHI, October 26 — Lawmakers from BRICS member states opened the 12th BRICS Parliamentary…
DeepSeek’s New Flash Model Challenges Claude Opus 5 on Agentic Tasks at a Fraction of the Cost
SHENZHEN, Oct. 19 — A Chinese artificial-intelligence startup has released a new model it says leads Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5…
IMF Raises 2026 Asia-Pacific Growth Forecast to 4.8% as Japan Slips Toward Sixth Place
SINGAPORE, October 16 — The International Monetary Fund raised its 2026 growth forecast for the Asia-Pacific region to 4.8 percent,…
China’s Golden Week Logs 2.14 Billion Trips as Holiday Spending Tests Consumption Recovery
BEIJING, October 8 — China’s week-long National Day holiday generated an estimated 2.14 billion cross-regional passenger trips, the Ministry of…
Thailand Floods Kill 23, Paralyze Bangkok Airport as Government Unlocks Relief
BANGKOK, September 29 — Torrential rains across central Thailand have killed at least 23 people since September 16 and plunged…
Alibaba Pledges 20 Gigawatts of Global Data-Center Capacity by 2032 as AI Demand Surges
HANGZHOU, September 23 — Alibaba Group pledged to expand the data centers run by its cloud unit worldwide to more…
India Sends Emergency Power to Nepal After Glacial Floods Erase a Tenth of Its Grid
KATHMANDU, September 15 — India has approved the emergency export of up to 654 megawatts of electricity to Nepal for…
Nepal Glacier Disaster Toll Surpasses 1,250 as Rescue Teams Battle Composite Mudflows and Floods
KATHMANDU, Sept. 3 — The death toll from the catastrophic glacial lake outburst and subsequent mudflows in Nepal has climbed…