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Small exporters in India, many of whom work on small margins, have warned that job losses could soar if attacks in the Red Sea drag on for months this year
Leaders of Pacific Island nations allied with the US have become anxious about the US budget impasse that has delayed approval of vital new funding packages
Japan's ruling party's AI project team is planning to draft preliminary rules, including penal regulations, for foundation model developers such as OpenAI
VW has said it is reviewing “the future direction of business" in Xinjiang, where a test track was constructed for the German carmaker, allegedly using forced labour
The Nikkei benchmark rose to a 34-year high, while TSMC and other chip-related stocks helped most Asian markets higher on Thursday
Late last year a Russian firm imported car kits to assemble Citroёn C5 models at an old plant still owned by Stellantis; they came from China's Dongfeng Motor Group
Government data released on Thursday showed that GDP fell by an annualised 0.4% in the October-December period after a 3.3% slump in the previous quarter
The fintech giant's share price has slumped more than 84% since it filed for a blockbuster IPO — India’s largest — eroding $14.5 billion of investor wealth
The Nikkei fell after stronger than expected inflation data in the US, but the Hang Seng and indexes in India managed to edge up on Wednesday
The largest supplier of equipment to computer chip makers said new competitors with 'substantial financial resources' and 'the ambition of self-sufficiency' were a business risk
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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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