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US Security Adviser Jake Sullivan meets with President Xi after rare meeting with key military officer and others in a bid to ease tensions on a range of thorny issues
US tech giant is keen to build a large data centre near Ho Chi Minh City, as it has a many domestic and foreign cloud service clients in the country
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil warned on Tuesday that tech giants like Google, Meta and X must comply with local laws to continue operating in the country
Samsung SDI announces deal with GM on EV battery plant in Indiana, which will aim to have an initial production capacity of 27 gigawatt hours per year
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said China was 'not playing by the same rules' as the rest of the world. He is also considering similar levies on imports of chips and solar cells
Alibaba, Tencent and Bytedance are splurging on AI processors and infrastructure to meet strong demand for large-language models and data centres
Scrutiny of X's links to Russian oligarchs comes ahead of the November US election that will see Democratic nominee Kamala Harris run against second-time Republican nominee Donald Trump
E-commerce giant sees $55 billion knocked off its market cap in record plunge after quarterly sales miss estimates amid concern over China's severe downturn and its 'global outlook'
American firms producing electric vehicles to electric utility equipment largely want higher China tariffs to be reduced, delayed or abandoned altogether
The US tech services giant said on Monday will shut its R&D operations in China. It may boost operations in India and other parts of Asia
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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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