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Costs have shot up as ships have rerouted around Africa. Some shippers are looking to boost the number of vessels sailing through the Suez Canal, but others want to see if the response to Houthi attacks is effective
Rising hopes of a new year U-turn on US interest rates lifted the mood across the region’s trading floors
"A more dovish Fed means the likelihood of recession in 2024 has fallen considerably," one market analyst said
Earlier this month, BMW Group said it had received a test license for L3 self-driving on high-speed roads in Shanghai
Uncertainty in the Red Sea, after Yemen's Houthi militant group began targeting vessels this month, is threatening to worsen the global surge in inflation
The US Department of Defence said on Saturday the drone that attacked the Japanese-owned chemical tanker was launched from Iran.
Beijing has condemned a US plan to review procurement of mature-node chips from China, as it likely fears the move will create further upheaval in its volatile chip sector
The National Development and Reform Commission said on Saturday it had identified thousands of flood control and disaster relief projects under a $140bn plan to boost the economy
India recorded extreme weather events on 235 of the 273 days between January 1 to September 30 this year, a study found
Analysts said the renminbi’s advance was likely to be welcomed by Beijing, which is keen to increase the currency’s international profile
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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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