The new sanctions caused stocks and the ruble to plunge initially, and led to former president Dmitry Medvedev calling for citizens to “inflict maximum harm” on Western societies

The US Treasury said on Wednesday that VPower Finance Security and other firms in Hong Kong and the UAE were punished for transporting gold produced by Russia's biggest gold miner Polyus

US to broaden its export controls and announce new sanctions on financial institutions and non-banks that help the Russian military with chips, tech and goods, sources say

Trump’s remarks are a sharp U-turn from his earlier stance on the app, given it was he who began the US crusade against TikTok during his presidency in 2020

Small Chinese banks funding deals with Russia will be discussed at the summit in Italy amid concern China is bolstering "the Russian war machine."

China sat out of the global risk rally after a group of Republican lawmakers said battery companies CATL and Gotion should be banned from shipping goods to the US

Lawmakers say the US should ban imports from the battery-makers because their supply chains are linked to Xinjiang and 'deeply compromised'

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos are key sites of scam operations, but most ASEAN nations facilitate the trafficking of thousands of people forced to work in horrific enclaves, then help launder the proceeds, report says

China's exports saw yearly growth in May, with a better yuan exchange rate and firms shipping early ahead of tariff increases in foreign markets

TSMC's new chairman has hailed hailed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $7-trillion plan to create new fabrication plants for artificial intelligence as "too aggressive for me to believe"

Political factors may be involved in the crackdown, which comes as over a billion packages, averaging around $50 in value, are forecast to arrive in the US this year

TSMC is currently prohibited from producing advanced processors for China, as it uses American chipmaking tools, and hence falls under the purview of recent sanctions