HANOI: Alphabet’s Google is considering building a large data centre in Vietnam, a person briefed on the plans said, in what would be the first such investment by a big US technology company in the Southeast Asian nation.

LONDON: Britain’s Labour government is drawing up a new, cost-cutting artificial intelligence strategy ahead of a crunch autumn budget – prioritizing public sector adoption of the technology over direct investment into industry.

KUWAIT, Aug 29 (KUNA) -- The Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) Thursday announced the launch of Kuwait Overnight Interest Average (KONIA) as of next Sunday as part of its efforts to consolidate financial stability.

CAIRO, Aug 29 (KUNA) -- The Arab League permanent committee for administrative and financial affairs chaired by Arab Affairs Supervisor at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Finance, Arwa Al-Musallam, held the 106 regular session of the Arab League on Thursday.

ORLANDO, Florida: Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech has turned Sept 6 and Sept 18 into the two most important dates for US monetary policy in years, as events on both days center on the Fed’s new guiding light: the unemployment rate.

YINCHUAN, China: Hundreds of rows of gleaming panels blanket swathes of scrubby sand at sunset in a remote northern Chinese desert — once the biggest solar farm in the world.

BENGALURU: Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries won approval on Wednesday for an $8.5 billion merger of their Indian media assets after assuaging regulatory worries about their grip on broadcasting rights for cricket, India’s favorite sport.

MUMBAI: Among the swanky skyscrapers of India’s financial capital Mumbai, hundreds of dangerously dilapidated buildings facing demolition are crowded with families risking their lives rather than braving impossibly high rents.

NAIROBI: Ethiopia said it has more than doubled electricity production from its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile after two more turbines started operations.