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Tencent's twin-tower Seafront Towers headquarters in Shenzhen, China

Tencent Ends Four Years of Bond Silence and Gets Mobbed for $4.66 Billion

Tencent raised $4.66 billion in its first international bond sale in more than four years, drawing over $6 billion in orders as shares jumped 3.3 percent. Global investors mobbed paper from a

June 10, 2026

Business·Markets·News

TSMC's Fab 18 advanced chip plant in Tainan, Taiwan, where the company's most advanced processors are made

TSMC Grew 30 Percent in May. Taiwan’s Market Had One of Its Worst Days Anyway.

TSMC reported May revenue of NT$416.98 billion, up 30.1 percent from a year earlier and re-accelerating from April's scare. Taiwan's benchmark index fell 3.48 percent the same day. The world's most important

June 10, 2026

Business·Markets·News·Technology

BYD electric vehicle store with cars on display in Stuttgart, Germany

BYD’s Founder Promises the World in Five Years, From the Bottom of a 45% Share Slump

Wang Chuanfu told a thousand shareholders in Shenzhen that BYD will be the world's biggest automaker within five years. The room needed the reassurance: the stock has lost 45 percent from its

June 10, 2026

Business·Markets·News

The Reserve Bank of India headquarters in Mumbai, the central bank defending the rupee as the Iran war pressures India's economy

RBI defends rupee as Iran war cuts India growth forecast in celebration week

The Reserve Bank reportedly stepped into the market for the rupee in the same week it cut India's growth forecast to 6.6 percent and raised the inflation outlook to 5.1, as the

June 10, 2026

Business·Economy·News

Onitsuka Tiger storefront in the Shinsaibashi shopping district of Osaka, Japan

Asics Sets Its Tiger Free: Onitsuka, the 38% Margin Brand, Becomes Its Own Company

Asics will spin off Onitsuka Tiger into a standalone subsidiary from January 1, separating its fastest-growing, highest-margin brand after sales jumped 43 percent to $851 million. Shares rose, because the market read

June 10, 2026

Business·Deals·News

Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's Kuomintang, during her April 2026 mainland China tour

In Washington, Taiwan’s Opposition Leader Warns the US Not to Play Her Island as a Pawn

Fresh from meeting Xi Jinping and two weeks after the Xi-Trump summit, KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun used her American tour to warn that Taiwan must not become a chess piece, a bargaining

June 10, 2026

Government and Politics·News

The Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, where rights groups say 1,800 Palestinians face expulsion

Israel Empties East Jerusalem House by House, at a Pace Monitors Call Unprecedented

More than 260 Palestinian homes were demolished in occupied East Jerusalem last year and 116 more have fallen in 2026, as evictions in Silwan reach a pace rights groups say they have

June 10, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·Government and Politics·News

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and OpenAI's Sam Altman meeting in Tokyo in February 2025, before the stalled margin loan talks

Banks Balk at Pricing OpenAI: SoftBank’s $6 Billion Margin Loan Stalls

SoftBank's attempt to borrow at least $6 billion against its OpenAI stake has stalled, Bloomberg reported, with creditors unsure how to value a private company that has missed some internal sales and

June 10, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Business·Markets·News

LNG carriers at anchor off Singapore, the kind of vessels that will move Malaysian gas to Japan under the new Petronas-JERA deal

Japan Locks In Malaysian Gas to 2048 While Missiles Fly Over Hormuz

Petronas and Japan's JERA signed a 20-year LNG supply deal running to 2048, up to 2 million tonnes a year from 2028, extending a partnership that began in 1983. The timing is

June 10, 2026

Business·Economy·News

Lenovo's research and development campus in Beijing, as the PC maker's shares fall on memory-driven price hikes

Lenovo Falls Nearly 10% as the Memory Crunch Comes for the Price of the PC

Lenovo shares slid nearly 10 percent in Hong Kong on reports of PC price increases driven by memory costs, the squeeze analysts call chipflation. The AI data centers eating the world's DRAM

June 10, 2026

Business·Markets·News·Technology

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Tencent Ends Four Years of Bond Silence and Gets Mobbed for $4.66 Billion

TSMC Grew 30 Percent in May. Taiwan’s Market Had One of Its Worst Days Anyway.

BYD’s Founder Promises the World in Five Years, From the Bottom of a 45% Share Slump

RBI defends rupee as Iran war cuts India growth forecast in celebration week

Asics Sets Its Tiger Free: Onitsuka, the 38% Margin Brand, Becomes Its Own Company

In Washington, Taiwan’s Opposition Leader Warns the US Not to Play Her Island as a Pawn

Israel Empties East Jerusalem House by House, at a Pace Monitors Call Unprecedented

Banks Balk at Pricing OpenAI: SoftBank’s $6 Billion Margin Loan Stalls

Japan Locks In Malaysian Gas to 2048 While Missiles Fly Over Hormuz

Lenovo Falls Nearly 10% as the Memory Crunch Comes for the Price of the PC

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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