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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told CNBC he expects the first flights out of Australia would be to highly vaccinated destinations like Singapore.

Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said the Taliban is now in charge and has to take responsibility for the people in Afghanistan.

Xiaomi's electric and autonomous vehicle ambitions will pit it against China's other technology giants in what is becoming an increasingly crowded space

The EU's plan for a carbon tax has raised concerns in China, the U.S., Brazil and other nations. One expert says what the EU needs to do to get them onboard.

South Korea's central bank raised interest rates on Thursday by 25 basis points to 0.75%.

Blockbuster hits old and new like "The Godfather" and "The Lord of the Rings" can lead to a massive influx in tourism. But problems often follow.

The WHO said in February that Covid-19 "most likely" originated in animals before spreading to humans. China has rejected a second phase of investigation.

For hundreds of thousands of Chinese people, Beijing's crackdown on after-school tutoring this summer means their well-paying jobs are disappearing quickly.

Creators say recent policy changes at TikTok are leading to more video takedowns and account bans.

Delta is the latest company to issue new rules for employee vaccinations, but stopped short of an outright mandate.

Carbon dioxide emissions from the global electric power sector surged past pre-pandemic levels to record highs in the first half of 2021, new research found.

South Korea is expected hike its rate — making it the first developed economy to do so in the pandemic era

Protection against the coronavirus is waning among those who have received both shots of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, a new U.K. study has found.

Since most students aren't old enough to get the shots, doctors and epidemiologists say they fear the surge in Covid hospitalizations could get worse.

The grid is struggling to keep up with extreme weather events caused by climate change, and consumers are taking power resiliency into their own hands.

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says investors are misconstruing China's tech crakcdown as "anti-capitalist." Economist George Magnus thinks that's "wrong."

U.S. equities pushed higher Wednesday, lifted by banks, reopening stocks and chipmakers.

OnlyFans says it received "assurances" from its banking partners that will allow the platform to continue allowing sexually explicit content.

U.S. data storage and information technology company Western Digital is reportedly in talks to merge with Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings.

Since the mass evacuations began Aug. 14, approximately 82,300 people have been airlifted out of Afghanistan.