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Country Garden Clears First Debt Hurdle via China Creditors’ Vote
Country Garden Clears First Debt Hurdle via China Creditors’ Vote

The country's largest private developer won approval from creditors late on Friday to extend payments for an onshore private bond, but it faces another challenge next week

Arm Seen Signing Tech Giants for $50-55 Billion IPO
Arm Seen Signing Tech Giants for $50-55 Billion IPO

Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, AMD, as well as Intel, Samsung, plus Cadence Design and Synopsys are among the firms and clients that said they will be strategic investors in the chip designer's listing

Vietnam Chip Engineer Shortage May Spoil US Plan to Rival China
Vietnam Chip Engineer Shortage May Spoil US Plan to Rival China

The 100-million-people country has only 5,000 to 6,000 trained hardware engineers for the chip sector, against expected demand of 20,000 in five years

ASML to Ship Top Tech to China Even as Dutch Chip Ban Starts
China Stocks’ Stimulus Boost, Nikkei Gains on Bargain Buying
Hong Kong, Shenzhen Bracing as Super Typhoon Saola Nears
Li Qiang to Attend G20, ASEAN Summits, Instead of Xi
Hang Seng Hit by China Output Drop, Nikkei Lifted by Buy-Backs
Adani Family Partners ‘Used Opaque Funds to Buy Stocks’
Country Garden Voices ‘Deep Remorse’ for $6.7bn First Half Loss

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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