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Location trackers are a decades-old investigative tool used by US law enforcement agencies to track products subject to export restrictions
Rare earth mines in Myanmar's southern Shan state are poisoning rivers in northern Thailand with toxic chemicals, creating a health crisis for citizens and a Shinawatra government that may be on its last legs
Beijing regulators are asking firms like Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent to justify their large orders for Nvidia chips, and even putting pressure on them to halt their purchases altogether
Swadeshi Jagran Manch, a group linked to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, held rallies across India on Sunday urging people to boycott American brands.
Workers in China's manufacturing centres are feeling the impact of tariffs imposed by the US to counter the country's huge industrial overcapacity.
Days after seeking his resignation, the US President ended up praising Tan and saying the meeting was "a very interesting one."
The Trump Administration and China's Commerce Ministry have extended their tariff truce till November 10, giving both sides greater time to discuss concerns about trade and other issues
SK Hynix expects the market for custom-made high bandwidth memory chips to grow to tens of billions of dollars by 2030
"Japan needs a stable coalition.. [or] it's impossible to pursue consistent policies," an LDP heavyweight said, so it was best "to seek a coalition partner under a new leader."
US official says Nvidia and AMD will provide a share of revenue to the government in return for licences to sell advanced chips to China; the deal comes amid a push by Beijing for HBM chips
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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Fintech InsightsAsia Becomes the Epicentre of Global NFTsAsia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade
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