1. Viet Nam will hold nuclear power talks this month with Russia, Japan, South Korea, France, and the US. State utility EVN and PetroVietnam will invest in the first two plants.

2. China imposed a 15% tariff on US coal and LNG, 10% on crude oil, farm equipment, certain trucks, and big-engine sedans. It also put several companies, including Google, on notice for possible sanctions.

3. Trump's foreign aid overhaul has caused chaos, leaving contractors in financial crisis, with layoffs and millions in unpaid invoices.

4. India's central bank is widely expected to cut interest rates for the first time in nearly five years to boost economic growth.

5. OpenAI clinches AI development deal with South Korea’s chat app operator Kakao, and also talks with Japan’s SoftBank and Samsung about Stargate.

6. Australia banned DeepSeek from all government devices over concerns that the Chinese AI startup poses security risks.