PM anticipates a trade deal with the US to be agreed upon by early July, before the Trump administration's pause on 46% reciprocal tariffs on Vietnamese exports ends

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

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

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

Global firms are seriously underestimating the threats to their operations from increasingly changing climates, experts say

Chinese AI developers reportedly carried hard drives with a vast amount of data to a computing centre in Malaysia with top US chips to build an AI model they later took home, a new report says

China says the move would 'sell out the island's interests' and that it was aimed at 'currying favour' with the Donald Trump administration in the US

New government launches an industry task force following an emergency meeting on Friday after the US announced a 50% tariff on imported appliances

China has agreed to supply rare earth exports, while the US will drop some recent measures and allow Chinese students to access US universities under an initial trade deal discussed in London

Talks going well, Lutnick says; US officials are expected to drop restrictions imposed recently on a range of technology and other products to China in return for better access to rare earth exports

A new round of trade talks between US and Chinese officials got underway in London on Monday. They will focus on export controls on rare earths, chips and other issues.

A licensing system set up by China for exports of rare earth magnets gives it leverage similar to America's chip export controls because of its near-monopoly on the sector.