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Fitch Hands CITIC Securities the First A-Class Credit Rating Ever Given to a Chinese Brokerage, Cracking a Ceiling That Stood for Two Decades

HONG KONG, June 13 -- Fitch Ratings has assigned an A-minus long-term issuer default rating with a stable outlook to CITIC Securities and its Hong Kong subsidiary CITIC Securities International, the f... Read More


China's Private Space Companies Are Sprinting Toward IPOs Behind SpaceX, and Shanghai's STAR Market Has Quietly Opened the Door

SHANGHAI, June 13 -- A wave of Chinese private space companies is moving simultaneously toward public listings on Shanghai's STAR market and the Hong Kong stock exchange, in the immediate slipstream o... Read More


Dhamaal 4 Trailer Launches Ajay Devgn and Gang on Another Treasure Hunt

New Delhi, June 13 -- The trailer for Dhamaal 4 dropped on June 12, launching the fourth instalment of Indra Kumar's comedy franchise with a premise built around competitive treasure hunting and the k... Read More


Madhuri Dixit's Maa Behen Hits Number 2 on Netflix Global Chart in Debut Week

New Delhi, June 13 -- Madhuri Dixit's Maa Behen has surged to the number two position on Netflix's Global Top 10 Non-English Films chart within its first week of release, making it one of the stronges... Read More


South Korea Hands Coupang a Record $409 Million Data Privacy Fine, Five Times Bigger Than Anything the Country Has Levied Before

SEOUL, June 13 -- South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has fined Coupang 624.7 billion won, equivalent to about 409 million United States dollars, for a 2025 data breach that expos... Read More


Ariana Grande Launches the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation With Four Funds for LGBTQ+ Rights, Mental Health, and Crisis Relief

New Delhi, June 13 -- Ariana Grande announced the launch of her Brighter Days Ahead Foundation on June 12, 2026, establishing a four-fund philanthropic structure to support vulnerable communities acro... Read More


Spielberg's Disclosure Day Opens to $44 Million, the Best Domestic Debut of His Entire Amblin Originals Career

New Delhi, June 13 -- Steven Spielberg has his biggest summer in nearly two decades. Disclosure Day, his science-fiction thriller about the forced unraveling of a decades-long government cover-up of h... Read More


Taylor Swift Requires Iron-Clad NDAs From All 1,100 Wedding Guests - and the July 3 Madison Square Garden Ceremony Is Already Leaking

New Delhi, June 13 -- and the couple is reportedly already disappointed that some of those details have leaked anyway. Swift personally called guests last month to invite them. Those who confirmed th... Read More


Olivia Rodrigo's Third Album Swaps Pop-Punk for New Wave, Ships Robert Smith as a Guest, and Sends 'Drop Dead' Straight to No. 1

New Delhi, June 13 -- her collaborator on both SOUR and GUTS - the record marks the most deliberate genre pivot of her career, trading the pop-punk guitar crunch that defined her first two albums for ... Read More


Kangana Ranaut Says There Will Never Be Another Deepika Padukone

New Delhi, June 13 -- Kangana Ranaut has called Deepika Padukone irreplaceable, describing her as one of those rare performers whose presence in Hindi cinema cannot be duplicated by any successor. In ... Read More