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Before the pandemic Philippine offshore gambling operators, or POGOs, employed more than 300,000 Chinese workers
ByteDance has so far resisted US demands to divest TikTok, with the details of the new data security deal still being hammered out
The British government is due to make a final decision on the 63-million-pound takeover by Nexperia, a Dutch firm owned by China's Wingnut Technology, by October 3
Kwon faces allegations of defrauding customers, having lost $40 billion of investors' money after his firm Terraform collapsed earlier this year, TechCrunch said.
Companies such as Samsung, Xiaomi and Apple fear elevated costs and disruptions as the move requires hardware changes. They want the compliance date set back to 2025
COO Alex Hungate, a veteran of the financial services, logistics and food sectors, has spearheaded a push away from low-margin business lines as Grab races to turn profitable.
Stocks across the region were still retreating on Friday after the US Fed’s pessimistic rate hikes forecast rattled investors and unsettled currencies
The ETFs will test investor appetite for chipmakers, producers of new materials and machine tool manufacturers at a time when rivalry between the US and China in the chip sector is intensifying
Only 19 per cent of applications were approved, with Chinese citizens prohibited from participating in leading blockchains overseas
Apple continues to cut its reliance on China and will move 5% of its iPhone 14 production to India this year and expand its capacity to produce a quarter of all iPhones there by 2025
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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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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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