US to halt visa waivers for Chinese traveling to Pacific territory

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix kept almost 80 per cent of its total sales as operating profit last quarter, a margin almost unheard of in manufacturing, as the country’s chipmakers reap the rewards of the global artificial intelligence boom. Operating profit, defined as earnings from the company’s core business before interest and taxes, soared 632 per cent in the three months to September from a year earlier to 83.33 trillion won (US$62.76 billion) on revenue of 104.62 trillion won, SK...

The move will block shipments from BGI, a major Chinese firm that U.S. officials allege is associated with forced labor and the abuse of minority groups.

In his annual state of the nation address, Tokayev laid out an ambitious spending spree focused on infrastructure and investment.

Lula’s victory secures the most important destination for Chinese foreign direct investment in the Western Hemisphere and ends a winning streak for Trump-supported candidates.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday proposed a new US-Asean defence framework to guide cooperation over what he called “critically important years” ahead, but offered few details on what it would entail. The proposal faces questions over whether members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will embrace a bloc-wide initiative, with analysts suggesting they would prefer bilateral arrangements that preserve their flexibility as they navigate ties with Washington and...

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In a rare move, Singapore on Wednesday summoned top executives from 10 locally registered companies potentially linked to haze-causing fires in Indonesia to a meeting with three ministers. The executives all agreed to cooperate fully in an investigation by the city state into the regional environmental crisis that has caused air quality to dip to “very unhealthy” levels earlier this month. Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, Senior Minister K. Shanmugam and Minister for Sustainability and the...

Singapore has spent decades making itself indispensable to a global economy in which it has little control over the behavior of the major powers. Germany might be seeking to learn from that example.

Questions have been raised over the strength of Pakistan’s security commitment to Saudi Arabia ever since the SMDA’s inception in September 2025.

Jio Platforms shares surged on their first day of trading, even as questions mount about the telecom firm’s growth prospects and a new generation takes charge.

The EU – which is the top exporter of apples to Kyrgyzstan – urged Bishkek against the ban, noting that WTO rules require “exceptional circumstances” to justify such measures.

China has decades of experience in “patriotic education.” What it can learn from Russia is how to use education to support a war effort.