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China sends delegation to Panama to try to review and possibly reverse its exit from Belt and Road Scheme, while scrutinizing the US deal to buy CK Hutchison's ports
Survey finds one of the biggest-ever drops in exposure to US equities, amid concerns on stagflation, trade wars and the end of US exceptionalism
Nvidia chief expected to reveal details about the company's new flagship AI chips – designed for huge data centres that train AI systems
Tesla is aiming for a full rollout of FSD in China this year, and is working with tech giant Baidu to improve the performance of the system
Baidu has struggled to gain widespread adoption for its Ernie LLM, despite claiming performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4
Giant mine spill allowed about 50 million litres of acid-tainted waste to flow into Zambia's most important river, local engineers say; negligence in regard to environmental protection has created growing ill-feeling in the country
Data on Monday showed annual retail growth in the first two months of 2025, along with greater joblessness and factory output slowed
While it is not unusual for Washington to influence private deals of listed companies for strategic reasons, the White House has taken a role similar to an investment bank, analysts say
PetroVietnam signed an MoU with to buy GE equipment for gas-fired power plants, plus deals with Conoco Phillips and Excelerate, while oil refiner Binh Son did a deal with Kellogg Brown & Root
Fears rise that Beijing may seek to block the $22.8bn port deal; shares of CK Hutchison plunge after Chinese media damn the deal as a 'betrayal' of the Chinese people and an 'act of US hegemony'
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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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