External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has asserted that the United States has adopted India's long-standing diplomatic approach of strategic autonomy by managing a diverse network of international partnerships simultaneously. Speaking at an event organised by the Asia Society in New York on Monday alongside Daniel Russel, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the External Affairs Minister noted a distinct shift in Washington's foreign policy posture. Descr...

Sahm Capital Financial Company ("Sahm Capital") supported The Financial Market Innovation Hackathon as a strategic partner. Organized by The Financial Academy in collaboration with the Capital Market Authority (CMA), the initiative brought together emerging talent to foster innovation and develop solutions for the Saudi capital market. More than 500 applicants applied to this initiative, with 60 participants selected to form 12 multidisciplinary teams spanning finance, data science, design and t...

The Responsible Fintech Institute (RFI) has appointed Professor Lawrence Loh, Associate Professor Eugene K.B. Tan, Professor Louis Chen and Ms Farah Jaafar as Executive Fellows. RFI has also elevated Distinguished Professor Patrick H. M. Loh, who joined as an Executive Fellow in April 2026, to Co-Founder, in recognition of his contributions to the Institute's strategic direction. The appointments come as digital finance goes mainstream and regulators, institutions and technology providers seek t...

US President Donald Trump is expected to hold a key meeting with executives of several AI frontier labs on Tuesday even as some of the biggest voices in Tech have publically called for a slowdown in AI development. Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with the executives of AI companies at the White House on Tuesday (local time). Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei , OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai , Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen...

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) said on Tuesday (local time) that three sorties of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, six People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels and four official ships were detected operating around its territory. According to an official daily update issued by the ministry, one of the three People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft breached into Taiwan's southern Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). "3 sorties of PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels, an...

(260929) -- TOYOTA, Sept. 29, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Sun Yunong (L) of China competes during the trap women individual final of shooting at the 20th Asian G.....

The leaders of the world's two most powerful countries met in Washington, DC, from 23-25 September 2026. This summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Xi Jinping was much anticipated, but the results were underwhelming and did nothing to diminish the intersecting trajectories of the two nations. However, some take it as a positive that the two countries remain committed to engagement. Certainly, it is better than fighting, yet neither side has any manoeuvre room or appetite for comprom...

NASA and Boeing have outlined a structured roadmap to bring the Starliner spacecraft back into operational service following technical hurdles encountered during the flight that transported astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station. The upcoming uncrewed Starliner mission is scheduled to lift off either in December or January 2027, according to a Monday announcement by the space agency. Providing insight into the phased initiative, NASA Administrator ...