China will tighten oversight of new copper and alumina projects to curb irrational investment and disorderly expansion from 2026 to 2030, the country’s top economic planner said on Friday.
Malaysia has maintained its economic resilience in 2025, supported by the country’s trade neutrality and openness despite US President Donald Trump's tariff wars and geopolitical turbulence, said Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.
We saw plugins score another million-plus sales in November (1.3 million plugins in a 2.2-million-unit overall market, down 8% YoY), but growth has been slowing down, with November showing only a 4% increase over November 2025.
China’s economy grew by just 2.5% to 3% in 2025, the Rhodium Group think tank estimates, roughly half the pace implied by official data, driven by a collapse in fixed-asset investment in the $19 trillion economy over the second half of the year.
Oil prices edged lower in Asian trade on Tuesday, cooling after sharp gains in the prior session as heightened tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela and attacks on Russian oil infrastructure pointed to disruptions in global supplies.
