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Beijing wants its banks to “whitelist" selected real estate firms to help ease the sector's liquidity squeeze and encourage home purchases
Korean chipmaker plans to build a cluster of four fabrication plants in Gyeonggi near Seoul, with work to begin next year on the $90-billion project, which could be the "largest fab complex in the world"
Traders are on edge this week ahead of US inflation data that could scupper hopes for lower interest rates sometime soon
Global PE community "really circumspect about investing" in China. PE-backed M&A in Asia totalled $13.5bn from January to March 19, down 32% from the year earlier, LSEG data showed
Vice Commerce Minister Guo Tingting said "China will fully guarantee national treatment for foreign companies", but did not explain how it would do that
The Indian currency posted its steepest weekly fall in seven months as it led the way amid a tumbling Asian forex market
China's push for self-sufficiency in the computer chip supply chain was a noted feature of the annual Semicon China exhibition in Shanghai this week
Foreign investment into China fell 19.9% in the the first two months of 2024 from the amount in January-February last year to 215 billion yuan ($30 billion), the Commerce ministry said on Friday
China and Japan’s currencies were both under pressure on Friday, panicking investors and central banks across the region
Millions of Japanese are sizing up how to adapt to higher borrowing costs after many years of deflation, when prices, wages and costs changed little
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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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