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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday said he is initiating a review of recent high-profile cyber attacks on governments and businesses to find out whether a legislative response is needed.

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it has a number of economic and legal concerns regarding the move from El Salvador to make bitcoin a parallel legal tender.

Thailand's central bank has allowed banks to pay interim dividends as lenders are strong with sufficient capital to withstand the impact of COVID-19 outbreaks, the governor said on Thursday.

An agreement by wealthy nations aimed at squeezing more tax out of large multinational companies could hit some firms hard while leaving others - including some of the most frequent targets of lawmakers’ ire - relatively unscathed, according to a Reuters analysis.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will target tax revenue collection of 5.8 trillion rupees (US$37.29 billion) for the 2021/2022 financial year, up 1.1 trillion from the current year's estimated collection, finance minister Shaukat Tarin said on Thursday. Pakistan is to present an annual budget on Friday ...

United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai discussed trade and investment issues with Taiwan minister John Deng on Thursday and agreed to convene a meeting of the Trade And Investment Framework Agreement Council "in coming weeks," Tai's office said in a statement.

Microsoft said on Thursday it was working with global TV manufacturers so that gamers can play Xbox games through internet-connected televisions without any extra hardware other than a controller.

U.S. truck fleet operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc and autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo will test human-supervised, self-driving trucks to deliver cargo between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas, expanding an existing relationship.

BERLIN: The Indonesian, South African and Mexican finance ministers expressed support on Thursday (Jun 10) for an overhaul of international tax rules to make companies pay their fair share in a more globalised and digitalised business world. In a joint article with US Treasury Secretary Janet ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Industrial Court has ruled in favour of more than a hundred migrant workers in a labour dispute against American tyre manufacturer Goodyear Tire & Rubber, court documents showed on Thursday (Jun 10), amid accusations of unpaid wages and employee mistreatment at the firm's ...