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“This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.”— Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the EastOn June 26, 2026, during a meeting between Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing proposed the establishment of the Bangladesh-China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCMEC), a regional connectivity network that would form a pillar of the Chinese-financed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and link Bangladesh to landlocked southwest China via Myanmar. The proposed corridor is envisioned as a substitute for the stalled Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIMEC), which, if implemented, would have connected Bangladesh to China via India and…

Samsung just told the world that Samsung Wallet stablecoins are coming — and that single sentence, buried inside the Galaxy Unpacked 2026 recap, set off a quiet scramble across the crypto industry. The announcement is real. The details, however, are almost entirely missing. Key takeaways Samsung announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2026 that Samsung Wallet will support native stablecoins, with USDC among the expected options, according to Crypto Briefing. No stablecoin issuer, blockchain network, custody model, launch date, or eligible markets have been officially confirmed by Samsung. In July 2025, Samsung announced a partnership with Coinbase, allowing Galaxy users in the…

The 2026 oil crisis revealed a transformed China: no longer just the world’s largest oil importer and refiner, but a state actor deploying stockpiles, export controls, and strategic opacity to shape global energy markets on its own terms. Aerial view of Qingdao Port Crude Oil Terminal in Qingdao, China, on April 12, 2026. Since the outbreak of the Iran War and the subsequent Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, the global energy paradigm has shifted in favor of Beijing. As the world’s largest importer and refiner of crude oil, China has an unrivaled appetite for oil. As…

Harmony, who lived in Princess Court, said that news was “absolutely terrible”, adding: “I have real questions about the ethics and the morality about the way this has been done, because there was never any question of there not being council houses there.” Source link

Wipro Announces Interim Dividend of Rs 2.00 Per Share; Shares Gained 1.32% in Previous Session Moneycontrol.com Source link

Much like Fleetwood Mac, SpaceX … wants to be with you everywhere. Since its explosive initial public offering in June, issuers and index providers have rushed to incorporate the aerospace and satellite communications company into their products. So far, it appears in 179 exchange-traded funds, according to a recent Morningstar analysis, including both your traditional broad market index funds and some thematics as well. But as more shares of the company become available, its weight could become oversized in some indexes and the products that track them, said Zachary Evens, a passive strategies analyst at Morningstar. “That will be an important…

Audley Travel has hired Lucy Park as trade partnerships manager for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England.   Park, whose most recent role was in Canadian Affair’s trade team, has more than 12 years’ experience in the travel industry, including as an agent with Dawson & Sanderson and Thomas Cook.   Greg Thurston, head of trade sales at Audley Travel, said: “Lucy has some fantastic connections with travel agents in her region and her experience makes her the perfect person to share Audley’s unique approach to tailormade travel with our trade partners in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the…

Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST) has disclosed that Elliott Associates, L.P. and Elliott International, L.P. hold an aggregate long equity derivative position relating to approximately 76.2 million fully paid ordinary shares in the gold and copper mining company. The position, established through cash-settled equity swaps with reference prices ranging from AU$17.37 to AU$31.66 per share, was initiated on 12 February 2026. The disclosure, made under Australian Takeovers Panel Guidance Note 20 regarding equity derivatives, signals significant investor interest in Northern Star’s shares and may attract further market attention. Key Points Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST) is an ASX-listed…

Survey Report The public’s views of the nation’s economy have shown little change throughout 2015. But Americans are less optimistic about how well the economy will fare over the next year than they were last January. Currently, 45% rate economic conditions as only fair, while 27% view them as excellent or good, and about the same percentage (28%) rates the economy as poor. While these attitudes have changed little over the past year, they have gradually improved over the past seven years. In fact, opinions of the national economy today are quite similar to views in January 2008, before the…

Bitcoin began as peer-to-peer electronic cash, but the market gave it a different job. Over the past decade, Bitcoin has become crypto’s benchmark investment asset: something to accumulate, custody, borrow against, and measure against. Stablecoins, meanwhile, became the industry’s practical payment rail. That split made sense. Bitcoin’s volatility, confirmation times, and tax complexity made it awkward for everyday spending, while stablecoins offered the thing merchants and users actually needed: a familiar unit of account that could move quickly across digital rails. Bitcoin became the asset people did not want to spend. Stablecoins became the money they could. The gap is…