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South Korea's consumer prices rose at their fastest pace in more than a decade in March as the Ukraine war fuelled surging energy and commodity costs
Chinese EV maker Nio is in talks with several other carmakers about licensing battery swapping technology that is at the heart of the group's strategy to win over motorists in Europe
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
China-based fast-fashion seller now worth more than H&M and Zara combined
US bank has warned that the combination of Russia's war in Ukraine and China's property crash could see the worst wave of corporate defaults since the global financial crisis
As central banks tighten monetary policies, the credit impulse is likely to turn negative, slowing global economic growth.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has built a 9.2% holding in Twitter, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring
The Ukraine war is stirring tensions in the Middle East, where two old US allies are questioning their ties because Joe Biden wants to resurrect a nuclear deal with Iran
A possible breakthrough on the auditing stand-off between China and US boosted Baidu and Weibo, while Japan's Nikkei inched higher on gains in Wall Street
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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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