British bank Barclays has increased its financing of fossil fuel firms this year, despite vowing to tackle climate change, data from NGO network Fund our Future showed Wednesday.
BEIJING: China should borrow the playbook of foreign countries and step up anti-monopoly scrutiny in the financial sector to protect the interests of consumers, a senior official at the country's top banking watchdog said on Wednesday (Nov 11). The remarks by Liang Tao, vice chairman of the China ......
A federal judge in California late on Tuesday dismissed some of Apple Inc's counterclaims against Epic Games, in a dispute that has seen the online game maker's "Fortnite" game removed from the iPhone maker's App Store.
Japanese telecoms firms appealed Wednesday to the communications ministry over a planned $40-billion takeover of the country's biggest mobile carrier by its government-backed parent, warning it would "prevent fair competition".
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's economy likely contracted at a slower pace in the third quarter after easing coronavirus restrictions helped revive consumption and output, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday (Nov 11). The economy likely shrank 3.2 per cent in the July-September period from a year ago ...
Japan's Honda Motor Co on Wednesday said it will be the world's first automaker to mass produce level 3 autonomous cars that will allow drivers to let their vehicles navigate congested expressway traffic.
Japanese engineering giant Toshiba will stop constructing new coal-fired power plants and shift to renewable energy in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
TOKYO: Japan's new prime minister is declaring war, but there's no danger of an international conflict: The target of his ire is the humble ink stamp known as hanko. It might seem paradoxical in a country often assumed to be a futuristic tech-savvy paradise, but Japan's business world and ......
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said orders made during its Singles' Day mega-shopping festival had exceeded US$56 billion by Wednesday morning, as consumers sought to cash in on a deluge of discounts.
NEW YORK: ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of video-sharing app TikTok, filed a petition late on Tuesday (Nov 10) with a US Appeals Court challenging a Trump administration order set to take effect on Thursday requiring it to divest TikTok. President Donald Trump in an Aug 14 order directed ...
