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Prosecutors say Zhao, who faces sentencing in a Seattle court next week, should serve 36 months in jail for serious money laundering offences. Meanwhile, a Binance exec is languishing in a jail in Nigeria amid a legal row over 'unpaid taxes' and other 'crimes'.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four auditors, had been Evergrande’s auditor since 2009, when the developer listed in Hong Kong
Huawei looks set to become the No-1 smartphone seller in China this year, backed by the launch of its new series of high-end phones
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to fly to Beijing to outline this threat in a bid to stop China's financial backing for Russia's military production
Investor attention shifted to US tech giants and their imminent earnings reports though Middle East tensions still weighed
Asia was rocked by 79 disasters in 2023, making it the world's most disaster-prone region, with record temperatures spread far and wide
Chinese entities bought advanced Nvidia chips embedded in server products made by Super Micro, Dell and Taiwan's Gigabyte Technology after chip curbs were expanded late last year
Chinese electric vehicle-makers have rushed to take on Tesla, despite increasing competition, slowing demand and looming oversupply
Israel and Iran both backed off after their missile exchanges last week, calming the mood on the region’s trading floors
Beijing is desperate to rebuild confidence among overseas investors as its economy continues to struggle post-Covid
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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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