INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • Shanghai, China - China will this week weigh into the Israel-Hamas war by sending its special envoy to the Middle East,...

    Washington says it hopes China's friendship with Hamas backer Iran could help calm the conflict, particularly after Beijing brokered a detente between Tehran and Riyadh.

    Beijing has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinians, though it has supported the nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization rather than Hamas.

  • Amira, 44, and her children have moved to the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in the southern district of Khan...

    "Death might be more merciful," she added. About one million people from northern Gaza have moved to Khan Yunis and other districts to avoid the looming Israeli ground offensive.

    UNICEF, the UN children's agency, has said that unless water and fuel are sent "immediately", Gaza inhabitants are in "imminent danger" of epidemics and death.

  • RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – The Kingdom’s Minister of Transport and Logistic Services Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser here launched a significant...

    The project will have a capacity to accommodate six million passengers annually.

    It will operate through three international alliances in three concession areas.

  • Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned in a live broadcast to state TV of the possibility of pre-emptive action by...

    The minister said the "resistance leaders" will not allow Israel "to do whatever it wants in Gaza"

    The Islamic republic celebrated the Hamas assault but was at pains to stress that it was not involved

  • Biden will visit Tel Aviv, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in Washington. He also announced that Biden would...

    Biden "will hear from Israel what it needs to defend his people as we continue to work with Congress to meet those needs," Blinken said

    US officials said that a new US coordinator on humanitarian aid, David Satterfield, would work with Israel to develop more concrete plans

  • Since its invasion of Ukraine in February last year, Russia has been accused of taking thousands of Ukranian chlidren to...

    The children are going back to Ukraine via Qatar, Estonia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania

    Ukraine has welcomed the return of the four children, describing it an "important day"

  • If aid is not allowed into the besieged territory, doctors will have to "prepare death certificates for their patients," WHO...

    With emergency responders overwhelmed, doctors working around the clock and a dire lack of space, "bodies cannot be properly taken care of", WHO official said

    Overcrowding has paralyzed hospitals, where "intensive care units, operating rooms, emergency services and other wings" are all on the brink of collapse, he said

  • TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran on Monday said time was running short to reach a political solution in the Israel-Gaza conflict, warning...

    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday held phone calls with his Russian and Turkish counterparts.

    During his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Raisi warned of a "possibility of expanding the scope of war and conflict to other fronts".

  • ABU DHABI, UAE - Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi has said...

    The UAE has successfully enticed a staggering US$23 billion in 2022, up 10 percent from 2021, to be ranked 16th globally in FDI attraction.

    UAE is now the world's fourth-largest recipient of greenfield projects, with nearly a thousand ambitious ventures announced last year.

  • Frankfurt, Germany - The postponement of a Palestinian author's award ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair due to the Israel-Hamas conflict...

    Sharjah Book Authority, in the United Arab Emirates, said in a statement that "we champion the role of culture and books to encourage dialogue and understanding between the people.

    Adania Shibli was due to receive the honor for her book "A Minor Detail," a work based on the real events of a 1949 rape and murder by Israeli soldiers.