Sandra E. Dickens, MD, an Internist with Cincinnati VA Medical Center

It sounds like a Bollywood thriller, but a spate of shootings and extortion threats targeting Mumbai’s stars has sent the industry scrambling for bodyguards, reviving memories of the underworld’s grip on cinema in the 1990s. From gunshots to cash demands, the incidents have unsettled the Indian industry, decades after police crackdowns weakened the criminal gangs once deeply embedded in the multibillion-dollar business. Police have linked the latest violence to the gang of Lawrence Bishnoi, a...

Indonesia has abandoned plans to make a powerful new state-owned enterprise the “sole exporter” of its palm oil, coal and ferroalloys, in a move that has reassured some businesses, even as questions over oversight and pricing remain. President Prabowo Subianto’s original proposal to tighten the government’s control over the three major commodities, put forward in May, had prompted speculation that state-linked companies could gain an unfair advantage through access to commercially sensitive data...

The president plans to also discuss the war against Iran, but is not expected to bring up Russia’s war in Ukraine or the scandal that has engulfed Jensen Huang.

More than half of voters in Melaka had cast their ballots in the southern Malaysian state election by Saturday afternoon, in a contest where Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition faces formidable odds against the incumbent Umno. By 3pm, about 60 per cent of the 669,211 eligible voters had cast their ballots with three hours before polling closes, according to the Election Commission’s online dashboard. The polls mark the third state electoral battle between PH and...

Outside the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manila earlier this year, five people were arrested as hundreds of activists chanting “Junk Pax Silica!” clashed with anti-riot police. Inside, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr hobnobbed with some 600 investors, industry leaders and officials at a US-sponsored forum, urging them to sink their money into the US-led scheme. The Philippines is planning to build a sprawling 1,620-hectare (4,000-acre) “Pax Silica” technology hub near a former American...

The revelations surrounding Jensen Huang, who resigned from Nvidia over extramarital affairs, inspired social media posts using the very technology his company helped develop.

The narrative of easing trade tensions doesn’t tell us who reaps the benefits of these developments at the company level.

Nuclear stability requires mutual vulnerability. Artificial general intelligence could upset asymmetric deterrence equilibria, especially vis-à-vis Pyongyang.

Fewer people are making it out of North Korea. That allows Kim Jong Un to exert more control over his country’s image abroad.

The ex-Nvidia C.E.O. was a bridge between companies and governments. His exit will reverberate, especially in China where it could accelerate a self-reliance drive.

Seoul would be an attractive addition to several different international groupings – but joining one could mean locking South Korea out of others.

Tensions will flare up when cherished social institutions need to change to accommodate nonnegotiable religious needs. But they must start, even if it is only with a hijab or a burial.