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Subway trains in Beijing and Shanghai were packed, while some major traffic arteries in the two cities were jammed with slow-moving cars
Taiwan assessed China had staged the military "provocation" to express anger at a new US defence authorisation law
Analysts have warned the world's second-largest economy is "entering the most dangerous weeks of the pandemic"
Tesla and its suppliers have been falling sick in the current wave of infections in China, posing challenges to operations at the plant
The struggling tech firm has reached licensing deals with top carmakers, including European giants like Audi, Porsche, Renault and Lamborghini
At least 37 million people caught the virus on Tuesday alone, according to data presented in a closed-door meeting
Worries over another surge in US inflation dampened the mood across the region’s trading floors before the Christmas break
The aftershock from the BOJ’s surprise bond yield change was still being felt too with bargain-buyers moving in
Japan’s central bank surprised markets with its bond yield tweak which boosted the yen and cooled the red-hot US dollar’s charge
China's "closed loop" system, which had been relied on by many factories throughout the zero-Covid era, is also beginning to fall apart
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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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