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The absence of concrete stimulus promises out of China’s key leadership summit added to an air of pessimism across the region’s bourses
Outage led to US airlines ordering all planes grounded amid communication issues, plus big impacts on media, banks, retailers and telecom companies around the world
The United States has reportedly told allies it is considering using the most severe trade curbs available if companies continue giving China access to advanced chip tech
Nornickel is trying to move significant production away from Russia to major consumer China, to avoid sanctions against Moscow over its war with Ukraine
Scientists at Cambridge University have found that throwing old concrete into steel-processing furnaces purifies the iron and “reactivates” the cement
Technology stocks led a slump in Japan and Taiwan while China’s markets were lifted by hopes of stimulus from Beijing
The tag, based on the idea that some periods in history are eras of futile struggle, began popping up on social media, but it has been denounced by state commentators
Chinese chipmakers have escalated their purchases of ASML's machines used to make older generations of chips widely used in cars and smartphones
Worries about another Sino-US trade war if Trump returns to power had investors on edge across the region
Dozens of "high-risk" banks were taken over by bigger entities in the first six months of this year as small rural lenders succumbed to real estate debts and other woes
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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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