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Japan’s Nikkei reached its highest point since last August while mainland China stocks slumped for a fifth straight session
Household savings in China soared 9.9 trillion yuan in the first quarter, after record growth of 17.8 trillion yuan last year
The “top secret project” is aimed at realising Beijing’s ambitions of becoming self-reliant in critical semiconductor technology
Greenpeace says China should add more storage capacity and make its power grid flexible so it can respond better to periods of high demand, rather than building more coal plants
Washington has asked Seoul to encourage Samsung and SK Hynix to hold back from boosting China sales if Micron is banned as a result of an ongoing investigation
Traders across the region kept their powder dry with a deluge of earnings reports dropping this week and some key economic figures too
The BoJ’s new chief Kazuo Ueda has already reassured markets that any change won't happen quickly following last month’s banking turmoil
The plant will produce 50,000 tonnes per year of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) for cathodes, using lithium carbonate as an input
Investors were preoccupied with the prospects of the world’s leading two economies as well as concerns over the AI bubble bursting soon
More than half a dozen mainland-based equity, mutual and quant funds worth billions of dollars have set up operations in the territory in the past six months
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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