Dominic Sirico 
Billionaire Indian tycoon Gautam Adani should be arrested after US prosecutors charged him with paying more than $250 million in bribes to secure lucrative government contracts, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said Thursday. Gandhi’s demand came after shares in the industrialist’s conglomerate nosedived nearly 20 percent in Mumbai, the morning after a bombshell indictment in New … Read more
Shares in Indian conglomerate Adani tanked on Thursday after its industrialist owner Gautam Adani was charged by US prosecutors with handing out more than $250 million in bribes for key contracts. The painful losses at units of the Adani Group came as markets across most of Asia retreated as blockbuster earnings from chip titan Nvidia … Read more
As civil war pounds Myanmar’s economy and drives up prices, garment worker Wai Wai often starts her shift making clothes for international brands on an empty stomach. The orders she and thousands of others churn out for big names including Adidas, H&M and others bring in billions of dollars in export earnings for Myanmar. It … Read more
Russia on Wednesday accused the US of prolonging the “war in Ukraine” by stepping up weapons deliveries to Kyiv ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Both Moscow and Kyiv are jockeying to secure an upper hand on the battlefield ahead of Trump assuming office in January 2025. The Republican has repeatedly criticised … Read more
Major European and Asian stock markets mostly gained and the dollar firmed against main rivals Wednesday following a positive lead from Wall Street, as all eyes turned to upcoming results from artificial-intelligence giant Nvidia. London was up 0.2 percent in late morning deals as a 20-percent surge in the share price of accounting-software group Sage … Read more
China’s President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Brazil Wednesday, fresh off a warm reception at summits of the G20 and APEC groups, both held under the cloud of Donald Trump’s White House return. Xi has said he would seek to “further enhance” ties with Brasilia when he meets counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula … Read more
Despite recent progress in narrowing Australia’s gender pay gap, women still earn over 20% less than men in the private sector, with female CEOs facing an even wider gap, earning 25% or AU$170,000 less, than their male counterparts, new national data has revealed. For the first time, the 2023–24 Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) report … Read more
Australia’s signals intelligence agency has warned people that cybercriminals were using advanced AI techniques and fake QR codes to dupe unsuspecting victims into revealing their personal information or downloading malicious files, with the intent to fleece them of their money. Australia’s critical infrastructure has widely fallen target to this hacking spree, and hospitals and water … Read more
Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea’s border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the nuclear-armed North that is driving residents to despair. Before it started, 56-year-old Kim Yun-suk fell asleep to the hum of insects and woke to the chirping of birds. Now, she is kept … Read more
The black and white silent movie flickered into life as the pianist started up with a dramatic flourish. Cue the latest exploits of daring master criminal “Three-Fingered Kate”. The head of a gang behind a string of audacious robberies, Kate — who is missing the last two digits of her right hand — always manages … Read more
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