India's central bank has proposed that BRICS countries link their official digital currencies to make cross-border trade and tourism payments easier, two sources said, which could reduce reliance on the US dollar as geopolitical tensions rise.

Initial figures showed platforms were taking meaningful action to remove underage users, Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said.

The climb-down by Musk, who initially laughed off the trend, highlights the difficulty of policing AI tools that make it cheap and easy to create explicit content. It is the latest clash between Europe and Musk, following rows over election interference, content moderation and free speech.

Half of Danantara's investments this year will go to public markets, largely in Indonesia, while it also evaluates opportunities in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Europe.

EU leaders heaved a sigh of relief over Donald Trump’s U-turn on Greenland as they met for an emergency summit in Brussels late on Thursday.

President Donald Trump warned Thursday of major reprisals if European countries dumped key holdings of US Treasury bonds to pressure Washington, as temperatures fluctuated over the future of Greenland.

Indonesia is set to host its first-ever plasma fractionation plant in Karawang, West Java, which is poised to become the largest such facility in Southeast Asia. This milestone marks a major step toward operational readiness, strengthening national healthcare resilience.

Alphabet's Google asked a judge on Friday to postpone making the company share data with rivals while it challenges a ruling that the company holds an illegal monopoly in online search, according to court papers.

Japan should act decisively against excessive market moves, Yuichiro Tamaki, head of an influential opposition party, told Reuters on Wednesday, after a brutal sell-off of Japanese government bonds sent a chill through global financial markets.

Asian equities stabilized Wednesday after a rough start to the week fueled by Donald Trump's Greenland-linked tariff threats. Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Taipei and Manila fell, while Hong Kong, Shanghai and Jakarta rose.