As of October 2025, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a series of reforms to ease and facilitate international trade in the rupee. These reforms include: (i) easing the process for foreign banks to open an SVRA*, (ii) allowing SVRA account surpluses to be invested into corporate and government bonds, (iii) allowing authorised dealer banks in India to lend in rupees to neighbouring countries, (iv) establishing a transparent reference rate for currencies of India's major trading partners, and (iv) easing regulatory burdens for non-resident Indian entities looking to establish business in India. 

*A special rupee vostro account (SVRA) is an account held by an Indian bank on behalf of a foreign correspondent bank. The SVRA stores the foreign bank's rupee balances for the purposes of settling international trade transactions.  

The Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted in China between 1968 and 1980. It was declared that privileged urban youth should be sent to mountainous areas or farming villages to learn from the workers and farmers there. In total, around 17 million urban youth were sent to rural areas as a result of the movement.

A vote of no confidence is a vote by a legislative body as to whether the executive (i.e. the Prime Minister) is deemed fit to continue occupying their office. There are two types: (1) a destructive vote of no confidence, where an election to decide the next PM will happen after the vote succeeds; and (2) a constructive vote of no confidence, where the opposition should propose a candidate of its own to replace the current leader alongside the vote (i.e. on the same ballot to vote). In both instances, a vote needs a majority to succeed.

The current Bulgarian government has faced five no confidence votes since it took office in January 2025. Currently, a no confidence vote in Bulgaria is a destructive vote of no confidence where after a vote of no confidence succeeds, either a majority party will form a new government or an interim government would be appointed in the case where no party is able to form a majority.

Gender detransition is the act of stopping or reversing the social, medical, and/or administrative changes achieved during a gender transition process.

A "cultural dividend" is a significant tax on the revenue of works that reference a culture the artist is not an immediate and direct member of. The cultural dividend would be paid to the culture's country of origin. For example, a white designer being inspired by traditional Malay batik prints would pay cultural dividends to Malaysia; Colombian born-and-raised singer Shakira who draws on her Lebanese heritage in her music would pay cultural dividends to Lebanon.

The Malaysian state of Pahang is the country's largest producer of durian. Many local farmers extended the durian plantations beyond legal borders following Malaysia's 1974 Green Book Plan encouraging the cultivation of state-owned land for agricultural purposes. However, the Green Book Plan did not confer guaranteed land ownership rights to the farmers. 

Today, these durian plantations are seen as "illegal" as they operate without formal approval from the Pahang state government who holds the lease over the disputed plantations via the Royal Pahang Durian (RPD) company. Between March and April 2025, RPD carried out aggressive enforcement operations to regain control over the plantations and establish a "land legalisation scheme" with the local farmers. Farmers who sign up for the scheme would be given the right to use (but not own) the land as "freelance workers", and must only sell the durian harvest back to the RPD at a price 3-4 times lower than market value. The farmers, collectivising as the "Save the Musang King Alliance” (Samka) refuse to cooperate, and have sued the state government over the issuance of eviction notices.

Malaysia's durian exports are expected to exceed RM1.5 billion (~USD 355 million) in 2025.