BANGKOK — Thailand and Vietnam have agreed to cooperate in raising the price of rice in the global market, a Thai agricultural official said on Monday, following months of talks aimed in part at improving rural incomes. “This is … ...
RUSSIAN MISSILES pounding Ukraine have spooked Japan into boosting defense spending. Now, with tensions rising over the Taiwan Strait, calls are growing to address another security threat: shriveling rice paddies. For decades, Japanese consumers have been eating less rice and ...
SHELLIOS.COM NEW DELHI — As India’s capital of New Delhi prepares for winter — and the accompanying season of acrid smog — the government is promoting a motorcycle helmet fitted with filters and a fan at the back that it ...
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo./SEOUL — The Bank of Korea (BOK) must keep raising interest rates until the rate of inflation is in decline, but the central bank likely could not halt its tightening before the US Federal Reserve, Governor Rhee Chang-yong ...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan needs financial help to deal with “overwhelming” floods, its foreign minister said on Sunday, adding that he hoped financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would take the economic fallout into account. Unusually heavy monsoon ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s colossal next-generation rocketship was set for its long-awaited debut launch on Monday on an uncrewed, six-week test flight around the moon and back, marking the first mission of the space agency’s Artemis program, successor to ...
KYIV — A team from the United Nations (UN) nuclear watchdog was on its way on Monday to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the agency’s chief said, as Russia and Ukraine traded accusations of shelling in its vicinity, fueling fears of ...
The dust will eventually clear, but the 200-day moving average for the New York Stock Exchange Advance Decline line (NYAD) turned into a brick wall last week, and the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) says there is more trouble ahead for ...
The week that went by fared very much on the expected lines. In the previous technical note, it was mentioned that given the unabated up-move in the markets for a couple of weeks, perhaps it was time that the markets ...
WASHINGTON — Two US Navy warships sailed through international waters in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the first such operation since a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi enraged China which regards the island as its territory. ...