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Japan's Mobara City to Demolish 50-Year-Old 'Ghost' Housing for Industrial Site, Eyes Chip Investment
Mobara City in Chiba Prefecture will raze the derelict Mana municipal housing complex and turn the 56,000-square-meter s...
Borsa Istanbul Opens Higher as Global AI Rally Lifts Sentiment
BIST 100 index inches up 0.13% after a 1.55% sell-off the previous day. Textile leads gains while tech recovers; analyst...
South Korea's Kospi Surges Nearly 18% as AI Optimism Triggers Tech Rally
South Korea's Kospi index jumped almost 18% on Wednesday, led by SK Hynix and Samsung shares up around 30%, as Asian tec...
White Goods Production in Turkey Plunges 15% as Export Slump Deepens
Turkey's white goods sector saw domestic sales fall 7% and exports drop 19% in H1 2026, with industry leaders blaming ri...
Turkey tightens e-commerce ad rules: AI disclosure, influencer transparency and discount standards start August 1
New regulations forcing clear labelling of AI-generated ads, greater transparency in influencer partnerships and uniform...
European Stocks Rise on AI-Fuelled Tech Bounce as BoE Leaves Rates Unchanged
Technology shares lead gains across Europe amid hopes that a sell-off in AI-linked assets is ending, while the Bank of E...
French Consumers Say Yes to Reusable Packaging—Until It Hits Their Wallet, Industry Poll Shows
A new IFOP study for the packaging industry reveals 92% of French people say they'd use reusable containers, but 74% fea...
From Tesla to AI Factories: Adi Prasad’s Lessons from Musk and Kalanick
The MIT and Harvard MBA grad recounts working under Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick before founding Matter, an AI-driven m...
How a Laid-Off Nike VP Landed a New Executive Role in Just Four Months
Tim Perks, 58, turned a surprise layoff into a VP position at DICK'S Sporting Goods by leaning on his network, working w...
His Student Loan Payment Just Went from $0 to Over $600. He Works Three Jobs to Cope.
Luke Helton earns $66,000 a year across three jobs but expects to be crushed by a surge in his federal student loan paym...
FCC's China Robot Ban Divides Industry: US Manufacturers Cheer as Startups Fret Over Lost Access
The FCC has banned new imports of advanced Chinese robots, citing national security. Domestic manufacturers applaud, but...
Flock's License Plate Readers Misread 71% of Alerts in Roseville, Records Show
Internal police records reveal that Flock Safety's AI cameras incorrectly read plates in 71% of stolen vehicle alerts ov...
Aging Is a Controllable Biological System — Here’s How Science Says You Can Stabilize It
Research now frames aging as a dynamic system driven by metabolism, chronic inflammation, and epigenetic regulation. Thi...
HillCrest Agro-Allied Lists N11.73bn Commercial Paper on FMDQ Exchange for Rice Mill Expansion
Nigerian rice miller HillCrest Agro-Allied Industries has secured quotations for N2.42bn Series 1 and N9.31bn Series 2 C...
Tinubu Tells Governors to Drop Low-Traffic Flyovers, Invest in Roads and Security
President Bola Tinubu urged state governors to stop building flyovers where traffic is sparse, redirecting funds to road...
Amazon Pours $1B Into New Role That Embeds AI Engineers With Customers
The tech giant’s AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team aims to build agentic AI systems in days, not months, as the once...
Boycott Backlash Clouds Tyla’s Lagos Detty December Show, Highlighting Tour Promotion Risks
Social media calls for a boycott over xenophobia threaten South African star Tyla’s scheduled Lagos concert, exposing fi...
Kenya’s Inflation Rebounds to 6.5% as Transport Costs Remain Stubborn
Higher transport and food costs pushed Kenya’s annual inflation up in July, reversing a brief June slowdown and keeping ...
Tyla Cancels Lagos Concert Amid Xenophobia Boycott, Leaving Promoters With Heavy Costs
South African Grammy-winning singer Tyla has pulled her December headline show in Lagos after a boycott campaign over xe...
How FCCPC’s airtime lending crackdown wiped out nearly three-quarters of MTN Nigeria’s fintech revenue
MTN Nigeria’s soaring half-year profit masked a 72% collapse in fintech revenue after regulators forced it to suspend ai...
Nigeria Exempts Fully CNG and Electric Vehicles from Import Duty, VAT
The Nigerian government has waived import duties and VAT on fully CNG, LPG and electric vehicles to cut transport costs ...
Otedola lifts First HoldCo stake to 25.87%, making it Nigeria’s most valuable bank
Femi Otedola's investment vehicle has acquired nearly N300 billion in First HoldCo shares in under two weeks, taking his...
Hungary’s Paks Nuclear Outage Could Spark Power Restrictions Amid Heatwave
With all 2,000 MW of the Paks nuclear plant offline and a heatwave driving peak demand, grid operator Mavir has asked la...
Lidl Hungary CEO Calls for End to Retail Freeze, Open to Kaufland Entry
In an interview, the head of Lidl Hungary urged the government to scrap the ‘plázastop’ development ban that she says bl...
Equatorial Guinea’s Oil Curse: Can Malabo De-risk an Economy in Steep Decline?
A rare government resignation over missed targets exposes the depth of Equatorial Guinea’s hydrocarbon-driven crisis, as...
Elohor Aiboni Appointed Shell Nigeria’s First Female Country Chair, Succeeding Marno de Jong
Shell Nigeria celebrated the handover to Elohor Aiboni, the first woman to lead its operations, as outgoing country chai...
BOA bets on digital tech, e-wallets to boost farmers’ access to finance
Nigeria's Bank of Agriculture has deployed core banking, mobile channels and smart POS terminals to digitize lending and...
Africa Bangladesh Trade Summit to Open in Abuja This October
The ABBF-organised event in Abuja on 6–7 October 2026 aims to connect businesses from Bangladesh and Africa, with a focu...
Bangladesh’s Consular Corps Rallies to Advance Economic Diplomacy at Dhaka Reception
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaid Islam attended a reception hosted by the Consular Corps in Bangladesh, wh...
Obasanjo to Present Charly Boy’s Memoir ‘999’ at Lagos Tribute to Justice Oputa
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo will headline the public unveiling of ‘999: The Memoir of Charly Boy’ on 31 July 2026...