A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon has been sentenced to 30 years in a United States prison for financial fraud that a federal judge said cost more than 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars.
An electronic board shows Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index, bottom, and exchange rate of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar in Tokyo Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Kenichiro Kojima/Kyodo News via AP)
Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the establishment of Jewish settlements within Gaza, claiming that the Israeli military controls nearly 70 per cent of the strip.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.
An electronic screen displays the current Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar outside a brokerage in Tokyo on June 30. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)
While the global economy was shaken by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the stock market was abuzz with the AI boom. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters)
Litchfield Minerals is set to put a newly refined exploration blueprint, shaped through BHP Xplor, to its first real-world test, with three ground geophysical surveys scheduled to kick off in July across its Oonagalabi and Silver Valley projects in Australia’s Northern Territory.
Oil helped transform Kazakhstan into Central Asia's largest economy. But much of its oil wealth depends on an export pipeline that crosses Russia - and that pipeline has come under attack from Ukrainian forces. Can shipping, manufacturing and critical minerals offer the country a future beyond oil?
Every era contributes a new word to the language of business. “Google” became synonymous with finding information. “Uber” transformed an industry into a verb. “Zoom” became shorthand for virtual meetings. Perhaps it is time to add another: “Dubai-it.” This is not a description of a city so much as a philosophy of le…
The world is undergoing a profound transformation. Over the last decade, countries of the Global South have generated more than two thirds of economic growth worldwide.
Readers discuss the draw of a stabilising force amid a world in crisis, living with the consequences of a bad call on the HK$2 transport scheme, and Indonesia’s delay in taxing coal profits
Smartphones on display at a Xiaomi retail shop in Beijing on March 16. Several Chinese handset makers are lowering shipment targets this year. (Photo by Tomoki Mera)
Barcelona’s short-term rental (STR) market is not a regulatory gap waiting to be filled. STRs have been regulated since 1998 and a moratorium on new licences has existed since 2014. Since then, the number of STRs has held steady at roughly 10,000 units for over a decade — barely 1 percent of total housing stock.
Question: How much of Dubai’s property market is driven by perception? Many buyers appear to be investing as much in the city’s lifestyle, safety and ease of living as the property itself. If that perception takes even a slight hit, does it begin to affect demand or prices in a meaningful way? AR, Kuala Lumpur
Federal Labor MP Josh Burns says he has no faith in social media platforms taking action to stop hate against Jews as he detailed antisemitic attacks levelled at himself, his staff and his partner, Victorian MP Georgie Purcell.
Federal Labor MP Josh Burns says he has no faith in social media platforms taking action to stop hate against Jews as he detailed antisemitic attacks levelled at himself, his staff and his partner, Victorian MP Georgie Purcell.
SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday reaffirmed the government's all-out support for the mega investment plans by Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Group unveiled the previous day as part of an 800 trillion-won (US$519 billion) project for the creation of a semiconductor cluster in the southwes…
MANILA, Philippines — Liberty Flour Mills Inc. on Tuesday said that its corporate secretary, William L. Ang, received a subpoena on June 29 from the Office of the City Prosecutor of Pasig in connection with a complaint filed by Stella Marie Jill Uy over documents relating to the sale of the Liberty Building.
The first caviar producer to go public, Hangzhou Qiandaohu Xunlong Sci-Tech is best-known for its Kaluga Queen brand. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kaluga Queen's Facebook and Instagram page)
The first caviar producer to go public, Hangzhou Qiandaohu Xunlong Sci-Tech is best-known for its Kaluga Queen brand. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Kaluga Queen's Facebook and Instagram page)
South Korea's tax revenue shot up nearly 19 percent in May from a year earlier due to higher incomes and the recent bullish run in the stock market, data showed Tuesday.
SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's tax revenue shot up nearly 19 percent in May from a year earlier due to higher incomes and the recent bullish run in the stock market, data showed Tuesday.
SEOUL, June 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea and Mongolia will kick off their sixth round of negotiations for a bilateral comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) this week, in line with efforts to seek mutually beneficial growth, the trade ministry said Tuesday.
PARIS — As Jordan Bardella edges closer to possibly replacing Marine Le Pen as France’s far-right presidential candidate, he is taking aim at one of her key economic promises.