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South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol vowed to support the South Korean chip sector in the face of heightened tensions between China and the United States
Vietnam, a global export hub, has been attracting global investments thanks to its array of free-trade deals and cheap labour, with the added allure of protection from increasing Sino-US trade friction
The trip is intended by Washington to be a major step toward what President Joe Biden has called a "thaw" in relations between the world's two largest economies
Japan’s benchmark fell its most in three months, trimming a blistering 15% surge over that period, while China stocks help steady
Allowing rates to move into positive territory would probably be "the last thing" the Bank of Japan will do, said Nomura’s Asset Management CIO
The US banking giant's pledge comes even as most foreign businesses have remained reluctant to commit to growing their China business amid increasing Sino-US tensions
Before travelling to China, US CEOs have particularly been seeking advice about how Beijing's expansion of its counter-espionage law could affect them
Foreign inflows of $4.4 billion went into Taiwanese stocks and $3.1 billion into South Korean equities in May amid surge of interest in beneficiaries from artificial intelligence boom
Investors were pulled in different directions on Wednesday with poor China data and global caution on one hand and Beijing policy support bets on the other
Japan plans to spend $107 billion over the next two decades to boost the production of hydrogen fuel by six times more than planned, it said on Tuesday
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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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