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Taiwan aims to forge closer ties with the US on electric vehicles, the metaverse and next-generation communication tech as Washington pushes to bring supply chains onshore, Nikkei says
Huawei paid out dividends totalling 61.4 billion yuan ($9.65 billion) to current and retired workers in its employee shareholder scheme, a filing with the Shanghai Clearing House shows
Poll comes after Tesla CEO disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter earlier in the day, worth nearly $3 billion, that made him the micro-blogging site's largest shareholder
GoTo calls a halt on planned Philippines expansion with Coins.ph investment after it failed to earn ride-hailing licence
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has built a 9.2% holding in Twitter, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has said the island will ramp up the development of drones, after seeing how they had helped Ukraine resist the Russian invasion
The survey of nearly 30,000 people across 20 countries, which was conducted between November 2021 and February 2022, shows 2021 was a blockbuster year for crypto
The fall in volumes is between 15 and 55 per cent among various crypto exchanges, with most reporting a decline in the number of visitors, too
People's Bank of China said Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and six cities in Zhejiang province will be added to the e-CNY pilot list
Bollywood star Vishal Malhotra is crowdfunding his film ‘Ilm’ – Urdu for knowledge – by raising funds through non-fungible tokens
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