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BYD’s Big Gains Give Chinese EV Rivals a Giant Headache
BYD’s Big Gains Give Chinese EV Rivals a Giant Headache

Growing global and domestic sales have allowed BYD to continue selling EVs at steep discounts, heightening the threat of an industry shakeout

Hong Kong College Offers to Take Harvard Students
Hong Kong College Offers to Take Harvard Students

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology offers a "smooth transition" to Chinese or other students who may not be able to enrol at Harvard for next year

Huge China Chemical Plant Explosion Leaves 5 Dead, 6 Missing
Huge China Chemical Plant Explosion Leaves 5 Dead, 6 Missing

Multi-storey buildings were flattened by a giant and still unexplained explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China on Tuesday

Shein Dumps London IPO, ‘Now Eyeing Hong Kong Listing’
Danes Probe ‘Unexplained’ Parts Found in Solar Systems – PV
Toyota to ‘Shift Some Corolla Production to Britain, Export to US’
China Carmakers Told to Explain Sales of ‘Zero-Mileage Used Cars’
China’s Meituan, Alibaba Enjoy a Boom in ‘Instant Retail’ Deliveries
$14bn Nippon Steel-US Steel Tie-up is a Partnership, Trump Says
Nvidia ‘Plans Low-Cost Blackwell AI Chip For China’ After US Curbs

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ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

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