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• Toyota to invest up to $10bn in US over next five years

  13-11-2025 06:06
  Carmaker gives no details on pledge, which is in addition to Tokyo’s $550bn commitment in return for lower tariffs
  
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• FirstFT: China pledges to reverse falling investment

  11-12-2025 23:07
  Also in today’s newsletter: Oracle shares sink over data centre spending concerns, and Taiwan probes leaks of vital chip tech
  
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• China signals concern over falling investment

  11-12-2025 19:00
  Communist party leadership pledges to ‘stabilise’ major engine of economic growth
  
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• Half a million flee as deadly Cambodia-Thailand border clashes escalate

  11-12-2025 18:50
  At least 20 killed and almost 200 injured, as Trump claims he can settle hostilities ‘pretty quickly’What’s behind the Thailand-Cambodia clashes – explained in 30 secondsDeadly fighting has continued along the disputed border of Cambodia and Thailand, as more than half a million people sheltered in evacuation centres.At least 20 people have been killed and almost 200 injured in clashes that began on Sunday, the fiercest fighting since a five-day conflict in July. Continue
  
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• US stocks slip after Oracle results disappoint

  11-12-2025 15:31
  US database company’s earnings published on Wednesday fell short of forecasts amid concerns over AI boom
  
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• Pakistan's military sentences its former spy chief to 14 years in jail

  11-12-2025 15:03 via bbc.com
  Faiz Hameed led Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency during the tenure of now-jailed former PM Imran Khan.
  
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• Mexico imposes tariffs of up to 50% on Chinese goods

  11-12-2025 12:15
  Cars will be hardest hit by move, which comes ahead of crucial renegotiation of US-Mexico-Canada trade pact
  
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• Pakistan sentences former spymaster to 14 years in prison

  11-12-2025 11:21
  Faiz Hameed was the first ex-director of the powerful ISI to face court martial
  
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• US stock futures slip after Oracle results disappoint

  11-12-2025 10:28
  US database company’s earnings published on Wednesday fell short of forecasts amid concerns over AI boom
  
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• Four French men accused of A$10m Australia jewellery heist

  11-12-2025 09:20 via bbc.com
  One of the allegedly stolen items was a Richard Mille watch with a gold smiley face, worth A$5m
  
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• More than 30 dead after Myanmar military air strike hits hospital

  11-12-2025 09:12 via bbc.com
  The junta has stepped up bombardments by air in an attempt to reclaim territory from ethnic armies.
  
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• Goa nightclub owners held in Thailand over deadly fire

  11-12-2025 07:45 via bbc.com
  Brothers Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra fled to Phuket, shortly after the incident last week.
  
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• Australian pilot has conviction for murder of camper overturned on appeal

  11-12-2025 07:00 via bbc.com
  Greg Lynn will face a retrial for the 2020 murder of 73-year-old camper Carol Clay.
  
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• Mexico approves up to 50% tariffs on China and other countries

  11-12-2025 06:44 via bbc.com
  The levies are set to take effect on 1 January and will apply to goods like cars, clothing and appliances.
  
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• Hundreds in Japan get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling

  11-12-2025 06:44 via bbc.com
  The drunk cyclists were deemed by police as likely to pose a "significant danger" as car drivers.
  
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• How China racked up a $1tn trade surplus

  11-12-2025 06:24
  Beijing shakes off damage caused by US President Donald Trump’s trade war
  
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• Taiwan probes leaks of vital chip technology

  11-12-2025 06:00
  Close allies among those targeted in bid to protect semiconductor sector that is backbone of economy
  
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• Japanese chess player calls out association's pregnancy bias

  11-12-2025 05:33 via bbc.com
  A prominent shogi player says current rules force players to choose between their children and careers.
  
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• Sexually explicit letters about exiled Hong Kong activists sent to UK and Australian addresses

  11-12-2025 05:30
  Exclusive: Letters with deepfake images of Carmen Lau in UK and targeting of Ted Hui in Australia part of growing harassmentSexually explicit letters and “lonely housewife” posters about high-profile pro-democracy Hong Kong exiles have been sent to people in the UK and Australia, marking a ratcheting up in the transnational harassment faced by critics of the Chinese Communist party’s rule in the former British colony.Letters purporting to be from Carmen Lau, an exiled pro-democ
  
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• ‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia

  11-12-2025 04:00
  Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’The climate crisis supercharged the deadly storms that killed more than 1,750 people in Asia by making downpours more intense and flooding worse, scientists have reported. Monsoon rains often bring some flooding but the scientists were clear: this was “not normal”.In Sri Lanka, some floods reached the second floor of buildings, while in Sumatra, in Indonesia, the floods we
  
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• Half a million evacuated on Thai-Cambodia border as Trump makes diplomatic push to end fighting

  11-12-2025 01:46
  At least 15 people killed, while more than 500,000 people have fled border areas near where jets, tanks and drones were waging battleHalf a million evacuees in Cambodia and Thailand were sheltering in pagodas, schools and other safe havens on Wednesday after fleeing fresh border clashes while US president Donald Trump vowed to intercede to stop the fighting.At least 15 people, including Thai soldiers and Cambodian civilians, have been killed in the latest hostilities, officials said, while more
  
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• String of celebrity scandals renews debate on South Korea's 'cancel culture'

  11-12-2025 01:05 via bbc.com
  In a matter of days, three big entertainers in South Korea have made headlines in separate scandals.
  
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• Trump has just accelerated Europe’s electric vehicle reckoning

  11-12-2025 01:01
  As US carmakers gain political cover to delay EV development, Asian companies can expand at greater scale
  
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• Why Thailand and Cambodia are fighting again after Trump ceasefire

  11-12-2025 00:03 via bbc.com
  Between the neighbours is a gulf of mistrust that has proven near impossible to bridge.
  
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• FirstFT: Donald Trump pledges to intervene in renewed Thailand-Cambodia conflict

  10-12-2025 23:08
  Also in today’s newsletter: The Fed cuts rates again, and Brussels raids Temu
  
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• Brussels raids Temu in foreign subsidy investigation

  10-12-2025 18:04
  ‘Unannounced inspection’ comes as European Commission steps up efforts against Chinese online retailers
  
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• ‘The bullying can’t go on’: the film-maker following Filipino fishers under siege by China

  10-12-2025 15:47
  Baby Ruth Villarama’s documentary Food Delivery depicts those struggling with the superpower to retain their trade. The director describes capturing their boats getting rammed by the Chinese coast guardDuring a televised debate in 2016, populist presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte made a typically belligerent statement that he himself would jetski to Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and plant a Philippine flag there. Duterte claimed that he was ready to die a hero to keep the Ch
  
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• Singapore’s latest antisocial scourge is pickleball

  10-12-2025 15:40
  Enthusiastic picklers are fighting a war against neighbours sick of the sport’s relentless ‘pock, pock, pock’ noise
  
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• ‘A generation lost at sea’: the desperate Rohingya falling prey to traffickers as they flee Bangladesh

  10-12-2025 13:00
  Barred from work and school in Bangladesh, thousands of refugees are making the perilous voyage to Malaysia by boat – with some beaten en route to extort even more moneyMajuma Begum stayed awake until 3am waiting for her son to return from the market before accepting he was not coming home. The next day he phoned to say he was on the Bangladeshi coast, waiting to begin a boat journey to Malaysia that she had desperately tried to stop him taking.It was the start of weeks of worry for the 58
  
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• Hong Kong bankers warned to improve quality of IPO paperwork

  10-12-2025 12:25
  Regulators highlight concerns after listings boom in territory
  
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