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The conglomerate will look at options from mergers to divestments as it seeks to manage its many subsidiaries and bloated main businesses weighing on its finances
Tokyo imposed asset freezes and export bans on 11 companies, plus groups in five countries last Friday over sanctions related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Canada is looking to position itself as a critical player in the EV supply chain and has come under increasing pressure domestically to act against Chinese vehicles
A rate hike may be on the table at the BoJ's next meeting at the end of July, when the bank will unveil its plan on how it will trim its huge bond buying
Regulators fear the companies could access personal information and intellectual property stored in their 'clouds' and provide it to the Chinese government or disrupt Americans' access to it, sources said
Chinese companies have asked top Malaysian officials to lobby against the US imposing tariffs on products made or assembled in Malaysia
The path to a London listing may not be smooth for Shein, with British lawmakers protesting against its possible IPO
India is seeing a sharp surge in incidences of cyber scams, with authorities recording a whopping average of 7,000 cybercrime complaints per day last month
The Shenzhen-based developer has been working to restructure its offshore debt since defaulting on $12 billion in offshore debt payments in late 2021
New report says the finance sector could face great disruption from AI, and that half the jobs in banking could eventually be made redundant
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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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