Combined profits for listed Chinese brokerages dropped 34% in 2022 and the lacklustre recovery this year has already spurred some companies to cut jobs

The UAE has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since sanctions disrupted Russia's more traditional export routes.

Asia stocks sink to two-month low, with Hong Kong down 2%, Sydney, Shanghai and the BSE Sensex all lower on Thursday. The Nikkei was the key outlier once again, rising nearly 0.4%.

Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft say a state-sponsored group had been assessing telecom, transport and other critical organisations in the US and on Guam in the Pacific

South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's top two makers of memory chips, have invested billions of dollars in chip factories in China

Ties between Russia and China have reached an "unprecedented high", Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said during his trip to Beijing on Wednesday

A second Covid-19 wave is spreading in China according to a top infectious disease expert, who said tens of millions will be affected every week with the XXB subvariant

Kenyan ministries were subject to hack attacks over three to four years said to be aimed at gaining information on debt owed to Beijing by the East African nation

S&P said a listing for chip designer Arm, which has become a primary preoccupation for the group's chief Masayoshi Son, would improve asset liquidity

China has lashed out at Tokyo for saying it will take 'resolute countermeasures' if it restricts the export of advanced chipmaking equipment to the mainland

"It takes huge amounts of pre-emptive investment to be a chipmaker, and it takes five years, 10 years to break even on those investments, so putting predictability into jeopardy makes investments difficult," an analyst said

Australia and the US have reached an agreement to boost the processing of critical resources needed for clean energy, PM Anthony Albanese said on his return from Hiroshima