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Vietnam elects Communist Party chief as president, echoing China's power structure

Vietnam elects Communist Party chief as president, echoing China's power structure

Vietnam has unanimously elected Communist Party leader To Lam as president, consolidating his control over both party and state
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Iron Ore Prices Decline Amid High Chinese Portside Stocks

Iron Ore Prices Decline Amid High Chinese Portside Stocks

Iron Ore Prices Decline Amid High Chinese Portside Stocks
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Tailors and dressmakers retire their pincushions as US demand for skilled sewers grows

Tailors and dressmakers retire their pincushions as US demand for skilled sewers grows

The ranks of tailors, dressmakers and custom sewers are shrinking in the U.S. even as their skills and services are finding fresh demand
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Tailors age out of the workforce even as demand for their skills grows

Tailors age out of the workforce even as demand for their skills grows

The ranks of tailors, dressmakers and custom sewers are shrinking in the U.S. even as their skills and services are finding fresh demand
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Analysis-Soaring costs, fuel shortage fears drive Pakistan to electric motorbikes

Analysis-Soaring costs, fuel shortage fears drive Pakistan to electric motorbikes

By Ariba Shahid and Sudarshan Varadhan ISLAMABAD/SINGAPORE, April 7 (Reuters) - Days after Iran effectively blocked shipping through the Strait of Hormuz following the start of U.S. and Israeli attacks in late February, two Pakistani electric motorbike outlets 1,400 km (875 miles) away found
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Dollar kept aloft as another Trump deadline looms

Dollar kept aloft as another Trump deadline looms

SINGAPORE, April 7 (Reuters) - The dollar stood just shy of recent highs on Tuesday as traders counted down to a U.S.-imposed deadline for Iran to open the Persian Gulf to shipping or face attacks on its infrastructure.
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Chinese pigs fed new menu as Beijing weans farmers off US soy

Chinese pigs fed new menu as Beijing weans farmers off US soy

By Daphne Zhang and Lewis Jackson TAIZHOU, China, April 7 (Reuters) - At the edge of one of the many pig farms spread across the vast, unbroken floodplains of Taizhou, a two-hour drive northwest of Shanghai, a pair of square, four-metre pools of acrid-smelling ochre liquid hold the key to cutting
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China targets Taiwan's chip prowess to evade global 'containment', Taipei government says

China targets Taiwan's chip prowess to evade global 'containment', Taipei government says

TAIPEI, April 7 (Reuters) - China is targeting Taiwan to obtain its advanced chip manufacturing technology and talent as a way of breaking through international "containment" of the country, according to a report from the island's top security agency.
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Taiwan opposition leader to visit China as Beijing ramps up 'reunification' push

Taiwan opposition leader to visit China as Beijing ramps up 'reunification' push

TAIPEI, April 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun leaves on Tuesday for China and a potential meeting with President Xi Jinping on what she says is a peace mission as Beijing makes a renewed push to convince Taiwanese to support "reunification".
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JPMorgan's Dimon warns Iran war may drive inflation and interest rates higher

JPMorgan's Dimon warns Iran war may drive inflation and interest rates higher

By Saeed Azhar NEW YORK, April 6 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned on Monday that the war in Iran risks oil and commodity price shocks that could keep inflation sticky and push interest rates higher than the market now expects.
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Artemis crew reaches the moon, approaches record-breaking distance from Earth

Artemis crew reaches the moon, approaches record-breaking distance from Earth

By Joey Roulette HOUSTON, Texas April 6 (Reuters) - The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission entered the moon's gravitational sphere of influence early Monday morning as they cruised along a path that will soon take them over the shadowed, lunar far side to become the farthest-flying humans
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India Struggles to Compete in Apparel Exports Amid Rivals' Growth

India Struggles to Compete in Apparel Exports Amid Rivals' Growth

India Struggles to Compete in Apparel Exports Amid Rivals' Growth