Nepal’s long-standing doctrine of balancing India and China has become harder to sustain as Beijing’s presence deepens w…
2026-05-01 17:07
Asian currencies are coming under renewed strain as the Iran war pushes oil higher and investors reassess the region’s e…
2026-05-01 17:06
China’s clean-energy exporters are finding fresh demand as the war involving Iran jolts global fuel markets, with sales …
The economic fallout from the conflict in Iran has so far been felt most visibly at UK forecourts, where petrol and dies…
Cosco Shipping is pressing ahead with one of the more aggressive containership renewal and expansion programmes currentl…
A warning that a US-Iran confrontation could ripple far beyond the Middle East is being tied to a broader energy and mon…
2026-05-01 09:00
The US Army is increasingly treating artificial intelligence not as a future add-on, but as a battlefield necessity, aft…
Brent crude climbed to its highest level since June 2022 on Wednesday as investors reacted to President Donald Trump’s d…
Signs of renewed movement in Iraq’s economic and diplomatic posture are drawing attention, but the deeper story is less …
Global trade is still being squeezed by the Red Sea crisis, with shipping lines continuing to avoid the most dangerous w…
2026-05-01 08:59
Goldman Sachs has sharply lifted its oil-price outlook, saying the disruption to crude flows from the Middle East could …
Taiwan’s ocean affairs minister’s recent trip to Itu Aba, the largest naturally occurring feature in the Spratly Islands…
The Western Indian Ocean has become one of the world’s most crowded maritime security theatres, but a new Frontiers in P…
