China’s rare earth curbs risks global manufacturing worth USD 6.5 trillion, says IEA
Energy watchdog says concentrated supply chains leave industries from automobiles to defence vulnerable as geopolitics reshape the critical minerals trade...
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Asia remains world’s largest life insurance market, finds Allianz Research study
Asia, marked by demographic aging, high savings rates, and less comprehensive pension systems, saw life insurance premiums growing by 9.9% in 2025...
China’s GLM-5.2 open-source model narrows gap with OpenAI and Anthropic
GLM-5.2 offers a one-million-token context window, allowing it to hold entire codebases or lengthy document sets in a single pass...
Coal shift makes American utilities top global emitters, says study
Carbon emissions from the production and use of energy rose 1.1% to 35,806 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2025, said a Energy Institute report...
China’s economic momentum picks up in June, finds Beige Book
In June 2026, China's manufacturing activity strengthened remarkedly, while consumer spending showed signs of recovery...
PSA International expands China footprint with Xiamen Terminal investment
As per the PSA Group, the Fujian investments were conceived as part of a broader effort to build a 'total ecosystem' combining port handling, logistics and intermodal connectivity...
Boost for Iranian oil industry as US issues sweeping rollback of sanctions
The 60-day waiver, known as "General License X", has permitted Iran to produce, sell and transport crude oil and energy products till August 21...
Setback for Trump’s G2? China tightens export controls against US rare-earth firms
Beijing justified the measures as a response to what it described as the Trump administration's "malicious practice" of imposing restrictions on Chinese companies...
Africa sees red as Maersk raises freight fees on cargoes from China
For cargo destined for the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the surcharge for a 20-foot container has increased from USD 750 to USD 1,000...
Fight for control of the internet that we cannot sea
Hyperscalers are internalising the internet's physical layer to feed the insatiable data requirements of AI, fundamentally altering the economics of global bandwidth...