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new video loaded: What It Takes to Move a Factory From China to Vietnam Tariffs have forced Chinese companies to move their operations to Vietnam. Alexandra Stevenson, our Shanghai bureau chief, visits a factory in Ho Chi Minh City to see how one of the biggest challenges isn’t relocating machinery and tools, but overcoming language … Read more
A Turkish C-130 military cargo plane with at least 20 personnel on board crashed in Georgia on Tuesday after taking off from Azerbaijan, but the number of casualties and the cause of the incident were not immediately clear. Initial video from the scene near the Azerbaijan border showed chunks of twisted metal strewn across a … Read more
The shake-up in China’s armed forces comes as both Beijing and Washington are pushing through major changes in their country’s militaries, in different ways.
. NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called a deadly car explosion in the heart of the capital a “conspiracy”, vowing those responsible will face justice. Police are yet to give exact details of what caused Monday’s incident near the historic Red Fort, one of India’s most well-known landmarks, and the site … Read more
[A trade truce between the United States and China has calmed nerves, but it won’t stop the broader movement of companies to countries like Vietnam.
A section of the tall bridge in mountainous Sichuan Province fell, apparently after a landslide. No casualties were reported.
[The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.
. The USS Gerald Ford has arrived in the Latin America region, three weeks after its deployment was ordered. Photo: AFP CARACAS: A US aircraft carrier strike group arrived in Latin America on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict as it announced its own deployment. The USS … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: In the race for AI dominance, American tech giants have the money and the chips, but their ambitions have hit a new obstacle: electric power. “The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it’s the power and… the ability to get the builds done fast enough close to … Read more
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif poses for a group photo at the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference in Islamabad. Photo: EXPRESS ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday warned that lasting peace in the region was impossible without Afghanistan taking decisive action against terrorist groups operating from its territory. “Afghanistan must understand that lasting peace can only be … Read more
