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Chinese blue chips fell 1.2%, having been shut on Monday, while the Hang Seng Index was down 1.04% and the yuan hit a seven-month low.
The government said there will be no change in personnel at the four senior ministries – finance, home affairs, defence and foreign affairs. It also held key ministries like commerce and agriculture
World's richest entrepreneur claims integrating OpenAI in Apple's operating system would be a security risk, but he is also suing OpenAI and developing a rival AI chatbot
High-profile UK judge Lord Jonathan Sumption said on Monday that judges are being compromised by an “impossible political environment created by China.”
Aggressive discounts have raised turnover for firms like e-commerce giant Pinduoduo, but economists fear they entrench a Japanese-style deflationary mindset in consumers
Trump’s remarks are a sharp U-turn from his earlier stance on the app, given it was he who began the US crusade against TikTok during his presidency in 2020
The halt in the Asian risk rally came as Friday's non-farm payroll data underscored the resilience of the US labour market
Move to buy and convert unsold homes into affordable housing is unlikely to help many debt-laden developers, analysts say
BYD is building it first plant in Hungary, while Leapmotor will use a Stellantis factory in Poland, as Chery eyes production in Spain and possibly Italy; Great Wall, SAIC and Dongfeng are also assessing opportunities
Small Chinese banks funding deals with Russia will be discussed at the summit in Italy amid concern China is bolstering "the Russian war machine."
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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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