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Rich nations to miss $100 bn climate fund goal even by 2025, says Oxfam

Data shows that the pace of boosting the funding slowed further in 2019, growing just 2% to $79.6 billion from 2018.

Stay or leave? How the world views Indian telecom depends on Vodafone CEO

Nick Read weighs the all-important question: Has India stopped being 'the most painful market' to operate a telecom?

Joe Biden, France's Macron to talk in coming days amid sub spat

"What's at stake in this crisis is the strategy (in the Pacific), which is more important than the commercial considerations," Attal said. "This is what we'll be discussing."

Running out of time: UN report shows Earth on catastrophic path

Scientists have been increasingly vocal and specific about what will happen if the global temperature continues to rise

Australia says France knew of concerns it had over submarines

Australia understands France's disappointment but the decision was made on "sovereign, national defense interests," Morrison told reporters on Sunday

USA's new space race slows down as Bezos sues to keep Musk from soaring

Bezos's companies are increasingly resorting to politics and legal filings to get ahead as they fall behind Elon Musk's SpaceX and satellite-based broadband services

Taliban shootout in palace: Mullah Baradar was attacked, punched by Haqqani

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was physically attacked by a leader of the US terrorist-designated Haqqani Network in early September during talks at the palace over forming the cabinet, say sources

A 3,700-mile sailing trip shows why strict quarantine is falling flat

Nearly two years into the crisis, tens of thousands of frustrated citizens of nations such as Australia and New Zealand remain stranded overseas, unable to secure flights back to their homelands

Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco swoop in on $24 billion India farm-data trove

Govt signs preliminary agreements with the three US titans and a slew of local businesses, seeking to reform agriculture industry.

SoftBank sells $1.69 billion of Coupang as Son unloads assets

SoftBank sold 57 million shares at $29.685 on Sept. 14, the company said in a statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Japanese company is still Coupang's largest shareholder

Beijing seeks to join an Asia-Pacific trade deal Donald Trump left

China submitted a formal application letter to join the deal, known officially as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership

China pumps in $14-billion cash as Evergrande's pain roils markets

Extended and severe economic slowdown seems probable, say economists

Indian defense supplier Data Patterns nears $100-mn IPO filing: Report

Data Patterns is seeking a valuation of around 25 billion rupees ($340 million) in the IPO, and is looking to sell an equal number of primary and secondary shares, the people said

Europe's energy woes hit fertilizers in another threat to food

Higher costs of the key farming input risk further exacerbating global food inflation at a time when hunger is on the rise.

Asian Americans in finance say racism leads to 'bamboo ceiling' in career

Asians often fall victim to the "model minority myth," the view that they are diligent workers who have overcome discrimination to gain a solid foothold in the workplace, according to the AAAIM

Europe's energy crunch sparks panic in Asia and scramble to buy fuel

Worried the eye-watering price of natural gas in Europe will spill over, LNG traders in Asia say they're paying record prices for this time of year

IMF chief accused of influencing ease of business report in China's favour

Kristalina Georgieva denies she had applied pressure on staff of World Bank, when she worked there, to boost China's ranking in the report.

Chinese county to give cash handouts to couples to have babies

A county in western China will give cash subsidies to couples to have children, the latest push to encourage more births in a country where the population is set to decline in coming years

IMF chief lobbied to improve China's biz ranking, says World Bank

To discontinue 'Doing Business' reports after ethics review

How billionaire Steve Cohen learned to love cryptocurrencies

Cohen, 65, who has a net worth of $11.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has since thrown himself into the world of crypto in a personal capacity and at his firm