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Chinese shipments to Russia jumped 47% in 2023 from a year earlier, and soared 64% compared with 2021, before the Russia-Ukraine war, China's customs data showed
Consumer prices fell for a third month in December while factory-gate prices extended a more-than-year-long decline, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed
Tumbling confidence sparked by the deepening property crisis and weakening consumption have seen a REITs index drop nearly 50% from an early 2022 peak
Our position on cryptocurrencies "remains unchanged" irrespective of who does what, India's central bank chief said in response to the US regulator's green light for crypto ETFs
A tanker was reportedly seized on Thursday by armed men near Oman and headed toward Iran; attacks on vessels near the Red Sea are taking a toll on global commerce.
Investor focus was on US inflation data due out later in the day while in Japan a weak yen helped fuel another dramatic rally
The US Securities and Exchange Commission's decision to approve Bitcoin ETFs is a landmark move for the crypto sector
Police say they arrested the CEO of an Indian AI ethics and audit startup after they found the body of her son in her luggage
Finland's president had talks with China's Xi Jinping over damage done in October to the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia, suspected to have been done by a Hong Kong container ship
The mood was largely downbeat across Asia’s trading floors except in Tokyo where a weak yen and US tech rally boosted sentiment
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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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