SHANGHAI: Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc said on Saturday (Dec 5) it has become the country's first virtual platform to accept Beijing's homegrown digital currency. JD Digits, the company's fintech arm, will accept digital yuan as payment for some products on its online mall, as part of an ......
REUTERS: 1/BREXIT MARATHON An EU official likened the current state of Brexit negotiations to a marathon where runners are "past kilometre 40" of the just over 42-km race. But four weeks before the transition period expires, a no-deal outcome is clearly a risk. Britain is also about to irk...
Investors are gauging how far a rally in beaten-down energy shares could run, as an expected recovery for the coronavirus-hit economy clashes with skepticism about the long-term prospects of fossil fuels.
In a backroom workshop in Malaysia, goldsmiths with blowtorches and chisels sit at wooden desks as they melt and mould the precious metal into glittery jewellery.
Ivory Coast's cocoa producers have ended their row with Hershey's after the US chocolate giant committed to paying a premium above the market price under an initiative to help lift the incomes of poor farmers, according to a letter to the firm.
Canada could see the end of a nasty diplomatic dispute with China if the United States reaches a deal to release a Huawei executive from house arrest in Vancouver, but the affair shows that without the heft of its southern neighbor, Canada has no bargaining power with Beijing.
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration on Friday (Dec 4) opted not to grant ByteDance a new extension of an order requiring the Chinese company to divest TikTok's US assets, but talks between the company and government are expected to continue over the short video-sharing app's fate, two sources ...
Last week, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States granted ByteDance a one-week extension until Friday over the order to shed TikTok's U.S. assets. President Donald Trump's August order gave the Justice Department the power to enforce the divestiture order once the deadline expired ...
United Airlines Holdings Inc said on Friday it had adopted a tax benefits preservation plan to protect the company's ability to use its large net operating loss carryforwards to reduce future federal income tax expense.
China’s economy is likely grow by around 2 per cent in 2020 significantly faster than the other major economies, which are facing contractions, says Yu Yongding.
