Tech companies like Paytm, food delivery outfit Zomato, online insurance broker PolicyBazaar, and online fashion seller Nykaa were amongst the biggest losers.

Huawei paid out dividends totalling 61.4 billion yuan ($9.65 billion) to current and retired workers in its employee shareholder scheme, a filing with the Shanghai Clearing House shows

Poll comes after Tesla CEO disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter earlier in the day, worth nearly $3 billion, that made him the micro-blogging site's largest shareholder

GoTo, formed last year by the merger of Gojek and Tokopedia, surprised some investors when it launched its IPO process earlier this month

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday he is giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform, one that would prioritize free speech

Thailand's central bank said on Friday it is planning new policy guidelines for the banking sector, including virtual banks and open banking, for later this year

Shares of Indian digital payments firm tumbled more than 13% on Monday, after the central bank barred the company's payments bank from taking on new customers and ordered an IT audit

Russia is facing a barrage of sanctions following its invasion of Ukraine. Governments are concerned it may use cryptocurrencies to evade them

Microsoft India unveils a fourth data centre on Monday in a bet on the country's rising digital consumption. The public cloud services market is expected to reach $10.8 billion by 2025

Chinese payment-related stocks jumped on Monday as investors wagered that kicking banks out of the SWIFT system would benefit China's own cross-border payment system, CIPS

Risks from the $2.6 trillion crypto market could grow quickly, so regulators need measures to bring the sector to heel, the G20's Financial Stability Board (FSB) has warned

The pressure keeps piling on Warren Buffett-backed Indian payments merchant Paytm. Shares of its owner One97 Communications are in freefall and now it must deal with gloomy predictions about its future revenues.