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China’s Industrial Internet Big Data Centre Underway
China’s Industrial Internet Big Data Centre Underway

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released its plan for a National Industrial Internet Big Data Centre, which it says will be completed by December 2020.

Geopolitics, trade tensions hurt market sentiment
Geopolitics, trade tensions hurt market sentiment

(ATF) Hong Kong: Financial markets retreated on Tuesday amid escalating US-China tensions, seen climbing a...

Spend, spend, spend: Hainan goes duty-free shopping-crazy
Spend, spend, spend: Hainan goes duty-free shopping-crazy

(ATF) Holidaymakers went on a 450 million yuan ($64.34m) spending spree after the province of Hainan...

China’s scandal-hit Luckin Coffee ousts chairman
US-China tensions sour risk appetite
Flooding in China may set historic global high
GF Securities under administration, activities frozen
China test of interbank bonds to fund real economy ‘a success’
Market boosted by China credit expansion, GDP hopes
China approves 266 overseas-invested telecom companies

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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