"We will change [these old rules] promptly," Digital Affairs Minister Tara Kono was quoted as saying, as he outlined plans to move government data online.

The building industry faces multiple threats such as "sluggish demand, weakening expectations and falling prices," Country Garden said.

Maxis and U Mobile will not take a stake in a government-owned 5G agency, complicating and delaying Malaysia's 5G rollout, sources say

Higher gas and oil prices caused profits to jump to $5.14 billion for the April-June period, soaring 140% from $2.14 billion a year earlier.

Epidemic prevention and control policies are putting the economy at risk, the Anbound Research Centre said in a rare act of public criticism of the ruling Communist party.

The group committed a "series of severe crimes," which included raising the annual return rate above markets levels, to 13%-18%, in order to attract depositors, a local security bureau said.

Policy work has also been undertaken to assist foreign firms to resume activity amid the Covid-19 pandemic, government spokesperson Shu Jueting said.

The US must match China's huge investment in clean energy as Beijing uses any industrial dominance for geostrategic power, a senior US defence official said

The new computer will solve data and problems that existing computers cannot, representing technological strides in AI, material simulation, and finance, Interesting Engineering reported

Adani said claims that NDTV's founders are not able to sell off shares are "baseless" and "untenable". But the issue has taken the spotlight off Adani's huge $29-billion debt load

The US tech giant was China's leading premium smartphone provider in the second quarter, followed by China's Vivo, the South China Morning Post said.

Nayara Energy's Russian parent Rosneft has already been hit by Western sanctions after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and traders are concerned the Indian refiner will suffer the same fate.