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The 17 websites were part of a scheme to evade sanctions and fund Pyongyang's weapons programme; they followed the seizure of $1.5m obtained by scams undertaken by the same group, US officials say
The 433-hectare Wilton Greens project southwest of Sydney is mired in uncertainty because of the Chinese developer's debt woes and lack of critical infrastructure 82km from the city centre
Analysts say BRI’s shift from investment intensive projects like dams to high-tech ones comes amid Xi's push to export Chinese ideas about governance
Country's biggest private developer seems to have missed a payment deadline, which would put the group in default on $17 billion in offshore debt
Tensions in the Middle East cast a long shadow over the region’s trading floors even as China reported better-than-expected growth figures
China's deepening property crisis has added to the pressure on local municipalities, with developers in no shape to buy new plots of land and provide some revenue
Sources say the Modi government has become uncomfortable with using yuan for settlement, while refining sources said settlement in yuan also increases Indian traders' costs
Gary Gensler said it was 'nearly unavoidable’ that the next financial crash would be sparked by an AI model being used somewhere in the banking system
Investors were in a positive frame of mind thanks to strong economic signs from the US even as the situation in Gaza darkened
With nearly $11 billion of offshore bonds and $6 billion of offshore loans, a default by Country Garden would set the stage for one of China's biggest corporate debt restructurings
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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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