On a hot and humid day in Tokyo, metropolitan government official Noboru Watanabe overcame embarrassment to come to work in shorts, an unusual choice in a country where formal business attire is still...
Economy
Azerbaijan exported goods worth $17.128 million to Armenia between January and June of this year. According to data from Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee, the figure accounted for 0.10% of Azerbai...
China has an increasingly important buffer against oil price shocks: electric taxis, Reuters writes. Across Chinese cities, taxi usage and ridesharing are booming. In May, people took 3.05 billion tr...
Oil prices surged over 4% on Monday as energy shipments via the Strait of Hormuz remained under threat, with the US and Iran announcing renewed military strikes, Reuters writes. Brent crude futures ...
Oil prices jumped more than 6% on Wednesday, hitting a two-week high after US President Donald Trump said the memorandum of understanding to end the conflict with Iran was “over”, renewing fears of ...
The situation in Russia’s fuel market remains tense, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said. “Authorities are discussing additional measures to increase gasoline supplies to the market. Sp...
Microsoft said on Monday it would cut 4,800 jobs, or about 2.1% of its global workforce, overhauling its Xbox gaming business and divesting up to five studios as it looks to boost returns after year...
Rosatom has proposed building a large or medium-capacity nuclear power plant in Armenia to meet the country’s electricity needs for decades, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said, according to RIA Novosti...
While investors and businesses spent the early days of April 2025 fretting over the future of global trade and the economy, President Donald Trump was busy buying into the stock market sell-off he cre...
The public has been officially informed about the latest developments in the border delimitation process, and it will be updated again if new developments arise, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Mnats...
Ford is recalling 741,195 vehicles in the US over a transmission defect that can damage the park system, which in turn could result in vehicles rolling away, Reuters writes, referring to the US Nat...
Apple raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s datacenter buildout, Reuters writes...
