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Tech firms led the losses and Tokyo plunged almost 3% with Sony diving 6.9% and Tokyo Electron falling more than 3%
The conglomerate raised $1.5 billion in a 10-year tranche, $1.75 billion in a 30-year and $750 million in a 40-year deal
Chinese company aims to provide customers with more energy-efficient products underpinned by innovation to help tackle climate change
Lender has been operating in the Australian market since 1982, primarily focusing on structured finance activities in the infrastructure, real estate and energy sectors
US exporters in some recent years have sold in excess of 3 million tonnes of soybeans to China in the second half of the marketing year
Nikkei Asia reported the company seeks to turn electronic waste into a stable source of gold, copper and other metals using the platform
Crackdown-hit China tech firms were a drag on Hong Kong too as it sank more than 1% with worries over a new Covid outbreak in the city adding to the gloom
Huarong, one of four state-owned distressed-debt managers, halted trading in its shares in April 2021 after missing a March 31 deadline for filing its 2020 earnings
The third runway project "is almost equal to building a new airport next to the existing one", the authority has said
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and their allies, known as OPEC+, has resisted US pressure for a wider opening of the taps in response to high energy prices
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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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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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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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