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China has not budged on specialized rare earths, such as samarium, which are needed for military applications and outside the fast-track trade deal agreed in London
New Delhi has begun looking into the crash that is confounding aviation experts, focusing on the ill-fated plane's engine, flaps and landing gear
Border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia continues to simmer, as Phnom Penh pushes for international recognition of old boundaries
A Ford executive said this week that China’s approval process for rare earth exports was still much slower than what the industry needed...
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China’s BYD Cuts Back on EV Production, Factory Expansions25 Jun 2025
The world's biggest EV-maker is grappling with rising inventory even after offering deep price cuts in China's cut-throat auto market...
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Floods Swamp Cities in Southwest China, And More Storms Due24 Jun 2025
In a report on Monday the World Meteorological Organization warned that Asia is warming nearly twice as fast as the rest of the world, fuelling more extreme weather and exacting a heavy toll on the region...
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Survey Shows Business is Booming in India, Record Export Orders24 Jun 2025
New export orders have fuelled a surge in private business, especially manufacturing, with international sales at the highest in over a decade...
Twenty local governments, such as cargo hubs like Guangdong and Sichuan, have supported the export of new cars to boost provincial sales data, 'dumping unsold subsidized cars' abroad...
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Not a Single Asian Country Met Air Quality Standards in 202411 Mar 2025
Countries in Central and South Asia continued to see some of the worst air quality, with India's New Delhi being the most polluted capital city in the world...
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Momentick Unveils First Emissions Risk Management Service14 Jan 2025
The group, which describes its business as "emissions intelligence," has raised an extra $5 million to enter the insurance sector to focus on emissions risk management....
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Billion-Dollar Oil Fraud in Mongolia Hits Trafigura Profit13 Dec 2024
Trafigura attributed the majority of debts owed by its counterparty in the country, Lex Oil, but its own internal probe is ongoing to try to locate around $500 million....
Surge of solar output in May sees China pass the 1,000 GW mark, but its record on coal power remains a dark shadow on its impressive energy transition...
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DeepSeek Sharing User Data With China Military, Intelligence: US23 Jun 2025
A senior US official has said that DeepSeek has willingly provided and will likely continue to provide support to China's military and intelligence operations...
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Oil Seen Topping $100 a Barrel if Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz23 Jun 2025
Closing the Strait would spur a big rise in the price of oil, but analysts say shipping and air travel to the Middle East has already been hit and there may be other ways Tehran seeks to strike back against the US....
China's global exports of antimony are now just a third of the levels seen this time last year...
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Dreamliner Crash in India is Latest Nightmare for Boeing12 Jun 2025
There are over 1,100 787s in service around the world, and while there have been concerns over the plane's engines, this is the Dreamliner's first fatal crash...
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Nikkei, Hang Seng, Dollar Hit by Steel Tariffs, China-US Tensions02 Jun 2025
Most Asian markets fell on Monday amid concern about the rise in trade tension between the US and China...
US officials – concerned about the trade deal with China – are considering revoking authorizations granted in recent years to chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC, making it difficult to get US goods and tech for their plants in China...
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Tariff Talks With US Still ‘in a Fog,’ Japan’s Trade Negotiator Says20 Jun 2025
An ballot in Japan on July 20 - and conflict in the Middle East - reduce the chance of the two sides reaching a deal by July 9, when the US will end its pause on tariffs, analysts say...
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Apple Keen to Use AI to Design Its Chips, Tech Executive Says19 Jun 2025
Executive says Apple learnt use the most cutting-edge tools to design its chips, including the latest chip design software from electronic design automation firms...
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