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France's revamped rules on EV subsidies include a new criteria for eligibility — the amount of carbon emitted in the making of cars, which is reportedly much higher in China
Mixed data out of China competed with new stimulus by Beijing for investor attention on Friday
China's video-game market jumped back up this year with domestic revenue topping 300 billion yuan for the first time
The deficit is lower than 2023's revised 3.8% target, but the option to issue off-budget debt of $140 billion provides flexibility to step up stimulus to maintain stable economic growth
Panel production costs in the world's largest producer of solar energy have declined a whopping 42% from year ago, dropping as low as 15 cents per watt
The bulk of market analysts surveyed recently expect the People's Bank of China to boost liquidity and keep the one-year medium-term lending rate unchanged on Friday
Some staff at German consultancy distanced themselves over an audit by the firm that found no forced labour at a Volkswagen joint venture in China's Xinjiang province
A dovish US Fed boosted investor mood across most of the region but exporter equities in Japan suffered from its currency’s rally
Country Garden said the sale of its holding in mall operator Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management to Wanda Group should bring $428 million, which will go to the rejig of its offshore debt
South Korean, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai bonds had their biggest month since May in November, with offshore buyers spending $6.36 billion
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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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