Consumer companies say draft agreement lacks the regulatory certainty required to tackle global plastic waste problems ...

Chief says industrial group is ‘very much feeling the weak market environment’ despite higher defence spending ...

EG Group has agreed a roughly £530mn deal to sell its Australian business in its second disposal in a matter of days, as the petrol forecourt group moves to cut debt ahead of a possible stock market ...

A witty portrayal of surrogacy that confronts the injustices of class and gender imbalances in Japanese society ...

US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said that Japan’s central bank is falling “behind the curve” on inflation and will ...

In 2023, Japan announced that it would, over five years, raise the defence budget to about 2 per cent of GDP. This change, ...

The remote Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands will make sporting history on Thursday evening when it plays its first ...

Also in today’s newsletter, South Korea’s former first lady in solitary confinement, and PwC’s staff attendance dashboard ...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will discuss “bilateral economic co-operation” as well as the war in Ukraine and global security issues at their summit in Alaska on Friday, the Kremlin said.

The Trump administration has hit India with 50% tariffs. And just after a short military conflict between India and Pakistan, ...

Peruvian ex-president Martín Vizcarra has been ordered to pre-trial detention on corruption charges, bringing the number of ...

Fears of a massive non-dom exodus from the UK have been allayed by initial tax data, and UK companies in China are being ...