Taiwan

The August 28th oil deal’s least-noticed effects run through two files nobody has read together: it gives Washington, for the first time, a direct commercial stake on both sides of the Essequibo border dispute, and it landed the same week...

SEMI and Silicon Catalyst’s new strategic partnership addresses one of the semiconductor industry’s most persistent technical problems: transforming a promising hardware concept into a manufacturable, commercially viable product . Announced through a memorandum of understanding signed at SEMICON Taiwan 2026,...

Ryanair, the biggest low-fare airline in Europe, on Wednesday lowered its winter traffic target to reduce exposure to high unhedged oil prices, and warned the some of its less well-hedged competitors could struggle to survive this winter amid high fuel...

‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’ The United States once led most other nations on resettling refugees from all over the world. But in the fiscal year...

Last month, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom issued a highly anticipated decision in The Kingdom of Bahrain v. Shehabi and another (Shehabi). The claimants, two Bahraini dissidents living in the U.K., allegedly suffered psychological harm after Bahrain used...

Bangladesh is moving towards military mobilization and starting negotiations with China for the acquisition of fighter aircraft J10CE equipped with PL-15. Reuters reported that the number of aircraft being considered would be between 20 and 24, the agreement worth $2.2billion...

Simukai Chigudu’s filmic memoir details the confines and conflicts of growing up in Zimbabwe during political turmoil. - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here Last week, I finally managed to snatch one read out of the...

India raised its purchases of Russia’s Far East crude blend ESPO in the first seven months of the year as China backed out of the spot market in the first months of the Iran war and deliveries to India from...

The industry is moving from simple documentation chatbots to agentic workflows capable of performing complex, multi-step tasks like design creation, verification, and library characterization. These agents are intended to enhance engineering productivity by roughly 50%. A panel of industry experts...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and participated in the SCO summit in Bishkek. Relations between India and the countries of Central Asia have longstanding and deep historical roots, having gone through various periods of development. However,...

Kazakhstan plans to more than double its crude oil refining capacity by 2040 from current levels by expanding existing capacities and building a major new refinery, the country's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, citing the government's 2025-2040 plan to boost...

As rescue efforts have continued on both sides of the border following the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, a fight over how the disaster is being reported has been growing in intensity on social media. The dispute centers on...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s administration has placed food security, energy self-sufficiency and military modernization at the center of Indonesia’s national development agenda. Under the framework of Asta Cita, these strategic and defensive sectors are expected to serve as the primary...

Three LNG carriers loaded from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf have transferred their cargoes onto other vessels outside the Strait of Hormuz in the past month, a move that’s highly unusual for LNG cargoes but...

TODAY’S NUMBERS 99.73 Dollar Index (DXY) · 4.81% US 10-year Treasury yield · $4,304 Gold, per ounce All three are rising together — the market pricing a Fed rate hike into a war, not a slowdown, a combination not seen...

The European Union is facing growing concerns over alleged Russian hybrid operations on European territory after Germany concluded that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month. German authorities said their assessment was based on...

The re-escalation in the Middle East and the Russian ban on diesel exports amid incessant Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries have pushed middle distillate cracks to record highs this week. The renewed exchange of strikes in and around the Strait...

Referendum result means fewer seats in parliament and new rules on candidates, ahead of December elections Guinea-Bissau voters have approved a new constitution, which critics say will undermine democracy, that significantly expands presidential powers ahead of elections due in December. According to...

When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement at Al-Safa Palace on 7 August 2026, the joint statement was studiously silent about who the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Egypt today for his first state visit in a decade. There, he will find a relationship that no longer fits neatly on the Middle East’s map. China’s Middle East policy has long been read...

As the war in Ukraine progressed, Russian strikes increasingly degraded Ukraine’s terrestrial communications infrastructure, steadily deepening Kyiv’s dependence on SpaceX’s Starlink. The satellite constellation became indispensable for crucial military functions, including command and control, drone operations, and artillery fire coordination,...

In August 2024, special forces from five Ukrainian military intelligence units crossed the Black Sea to raid Russian-held Kinburn Spit. The commandos of these units — Chimera, Aratta, Stuhna, Paragon, Terror, and the Siberian Battalion — landed, fought, destroyed equipment,...

The summer of 2026 has raised questions once again among politicians, diplomats, and academics about whether Germany might be about to dither on Russia. Last month, a drone attack on German soil seemed designed to coerce Germany back into business...

The number of tankers traversing the Strait of Hormuz remains below the ten-day average, according to ship-trackers, with Kpler reporting only four tanker crossings for Tuesday. That is below a ten-day average of 13 tankers, Reuters reported earlier today. Windward,...

Australia and the United States have announced a combined $580 million in funding for Pacific Island nations, highlighting growing competition with China for influence across the strategically important region. The funding comes as Pacific states face energy insecurity, organised crime...

Government bond markets across major economies are facing a broad selloff as investors worry about persistent inflation, higher interest rates and growing government debt. Yields in the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Britain have risen to multi year or...

US President Donald Trump’s plan to secure direct access to Venezuela’s oil reserves could undermine the country’s efforts to revive its struggling energy sector. While Washington says the arrangement will accelerate reconstruction and strengthen US energy security, critics warn that...

Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found. Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the...

South African artist Puleng Mongale explores how her childhood church still connects her to the women of her family, not through religion but shared history and memory This image, called Holy Gang, combines an image of a church in my mother’s...

Venezuela’s crude oil production rate could double in the next few years thanks to new deals set to be signed with U.S. and other foreign energy companies, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said. “The investment in these deals will...

The 65-billion-barrel Venezuela oil deal is not proof that regime change was sold with a resource contract attached as its explicit precondition — the deal was announced eight months after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, not before it. But the actual innovation,...

Islam Times - Younger US adults are just half as likely to feel proud of "where America is heading as a nation" (29%) than "what America has been in the past" (59%), according to a new poll from the Sine...

Asian financial markets came under heavy pressure on Wednesday as renewed US airstrikes on Iran intensified fears of further disruption to the global energy supply. Rising oil prices and a sharp increase in US government bond yields revived concerns over...

Taiwanese companies are planning an additional $20 billion in investment in the United States, driven largely by strong demand for artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies. The move comes as Washington pressures Taiwan’s technology industry to expand its US presence and...

I was told to keep my diagnosis private but I am determined to show the reality of breast cancer and reject the stigma that prevents women seeking treatment ‘Madam, this looks like breast cancer, and if it is, we will chop...

Last week, Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman told parliament that the country would view an invitation to join the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement “positively.” Then he also went on to add that an expanded pact could essentially become a self-defense...

On 28 August, six months to the day after American and Israeli aircraft opened the war on Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that putting diplomacy back on track was not impossible. He had just held what he called creative...

Oil prices climbed once again in early Asian trade on Wednesday as the U.S. and Iran traded strikes in a significant escalation after a month of relative calm. At the time of writing, WTI had climbed to $91.05 per barrel,...

A new University of Massachusetts-Amherst opinion poll, conducted August 21-26, finds profound American disillusionment with President Donald Trump, with his Iran war, and with its economic fallout in their lives. Apparently, the Ellison family’s attempt to drum up support for Donald Trump and his Iran...

When Washington on August 19 unveiled its economic “D-Day” – the latest tightening of the financial siege and the blockade around Iran’s ports – it believed it was applying decisive leverage. But in Tehran the move was read as something...