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The new tariffs President Biden announced last week aren’t economically significant. Symbolically, they are huge. The U.S.

TAIPEI—Taiwan’s new president said the island democracy would serve as a “helmsman of global peace" under his watch in a carefully calibrated inauguration speech reflecting his delicate status at the fulcrum of tensions between the U.S. and China. With Beijing and Washington both listening carefully, Lai Ching-te offered to keep Taiwan open to engagement with China.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose 72 cents to $79.95 per barrel Friday

UFO and Alien sightings have a separate level of craze and now residents of Japan's city are banking on the same fascination for economic prosperity. Japanese city named Kofu is located in Yamanashi Prefecture, at the foothill of Mount Fuji. Kofu will commemorate the 50th anniversary of a notable event in which two elementary school children reported encountering UFOs and alien. The incident grabbed spotlight and widely considered as one of «three major UFO incidents» reported in the country, as per a report on JapanToday.

release date and time of «My Hero Academia» Season 7 episode 4. «My Hero Academia» Season 7 Episode 4 will be released on Saturday, May 25. Crunchyroll starts streaming «My Hero Academia» Season 7 episodes at 5.30 am (EDT). There are a total of 21 episodes in «My Hero Academia» Season 7. While season 1 had 16 episodes, previous five installments consisted 25 episodes, as per a report on Dexerto.

From New York to London to Tokyo, if there’s one similarity among the world’s equity markets it’s this: record highs.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the BJP is winning only one seat in Uttar Pradesh. «Have you heard (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi is winning only one BJP seat of Kyoto (Varanasi) in Uttar Pradesh,» said Gandhi while addressing a joint poll meeting with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in Prayagraj in support of INDIA bloc candidate Ujjawal Raman Singh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier said that he will turn Varanasi into Kyoto, a picturesque town in Japan. «The fight is to save the Constitution. The BJP and the RSS are attacking it, and I want to tell them that no power can tear and throw the Constitution away,» Gandhi said while waiving a copy of the Indian Constitution.

India's structural reforms, Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa and former Niti Aayog chief, said such reforms have moved the country from the fragile 5 to the top 5, leading to a growth rate of about 8.4% in the last 3 quarters. «Analysts are correct in saying that 30% of the global GDP growth will come from India between 2035-2040,» said Kant while addressing the CII Annual Business Summit 2024. Kant urged India Inc to work with the states to accelerate their development. He added that the government needs to collaborate with the states as we need to focus on building 12-13 champion states growing at 10-11% per annum.

History enthusiasts and those fans who love watching Shogun have some good news coming their way. FX and Hulu are keen to take this series beyond Season 1 and have set up some space for the writers to brainstorm and come up with new ideas. This has been reported by Movie Web. In news that is exciting for the fans, not one but 2 more Seasons are being planned based on this historical drama. It has been adopted from a book with the same title written by James Clavell.

Donald Trump the edge over Joe Biden on the economy in poll after poll. That's even as the Biden years have been the best time to find work since the 1960s, and the US has bounced back from the pandemic with stronger growth than international peers such as the EU, UK and Japan and stronger growth overall than under President Trump. Instead, voters this year are focused on the steep jump in prices from the post-pandemic surge in inflation.

Popular and lovable Solana meme coin Slothana ($SLOTH) today announced that it will be listed on top 10 crypto exchange HTX.

Nippon Life Insurance Co. is on the hunt to take stakes in other insurers and asset managers in the US and Asia after it agreed to its biggest-ever M&A deal. 

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery rose 60 cents to $79.23 per barrel Thursday

NEW DELHI : Logistics and supply chain management company Transport Corporation of India (TCI) plans to acquire two cargo ships worth $35-40 million in the current fiscal to bolster its seaways business. TCI is exploring options from shipbuilding operations in China, Japan, and Korea, expecting to finalize a deal in the second half of the fiscal year. “We placed orders for two ships in the last financial year but unfortunately shipyard in Japan cancelled it at the last minute.

Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons, which are possessed by China and Russia and being tested by North Korea. The project was initially agreed between Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden at their summit last August and reaffirmed between the leaders during Kishida's April visit to Washington. The Glide Sphere Interceptor is planned for deployment by the mid-2030s. Wednesday's agreement determines the allocation of responsibility and decision-making process, a first major step in the project, Japanese defense ministry officials said. They hope to decide on Japanese contractors and start the development process by March 2025.

Asian stocks inched lower on Friday as traders pondered the near term U.S. monetary policy path after Federal Reserve officials suggested that interest rates may need to stay higher for longer even as inflation shows early signs of easing. Data on Wednesday showed cooling U.S. consumer price inflation, prompting markets to swiftly price in at least two rate cuts this year but the excitement soon fizzled out as the latest report showed the labour market remains tight, while central bankers were still cautious about inflation.

game of Assassin’s Creed is out and the fans are thrilled beyond words. It is set in ancient Japan, which had a feudal society. This was much before the Meiji Restoration, which made the country an industrial power. The news of the new game launch has been reported by Daily Star. The fans got a glimpse of the new game during a recent update shared by the makers of the game.

Indian Express, Minister Hardeep Puri revealed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP's claim that the NDA would win over 400 seats was based on arithmetic the minister has adhered to since the 2019 Lok Sabha poll win. When Puri was asked why the BJP is seeking "400 par" this time, the Union minister said that ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had asked him to "undertake a granular analysis of central schemes and the beneficiaries". Upon doing the same, Hardeep Puri concluded that there were "22 crore" beneficiaries.

Japan has reported that its economy contracted at an annual rate of 2% in the first quarter of the year, as spending and exports declined

Japanese automaker Honda is reaffirming its commitment to electric vehicles, investing 10 trillion yen, or $65 billion, through fiscal 2031

Mint on the impact of climate change in the Asia Pacific region. India accounts for most of the economic and human losses in South Asia region.