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Electric car and industrial batteries sold in Europe will soon face legally binding environmental standards, the European Commission said on Thursday, as it seeks to give local producers an edge in a rapidly growing global market.

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A Canadian border official who recounted the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's "persistent" requests for Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's travel history after her arrest two years ago is expected to finish testifying on Thursday.

France's data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros (US$121 million) to Alphabet's Google for breaching the country's rules on online advertising trackers (cookies).

Domestic smartphone shipments in China plunged 17per cent in November from a year earlier, extending a run of double-digit declines in the world's largest phone market, government data released on Thursday showed.

Germany's antitrust regulator has started abuse proceedings against Facebook to examine the linking of Oculus virtual reality products with the social network and its platform.

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DBS on Thursday announced that it will set up a digital exchange, which includes a cryptocurrency trading platform that will launch from next week.

SINGAPORE sovereign wealth fund GIC's stake in DoorDash is now valued at around US$5.04 billion after shares in the US-based food delivery company soared 85.8 per cent on its market debut.

BEIJING: China's State Power Investment Corp (SPIC), one of the top five power producers in the country, expects to cap its domestic carbon emissions by 2023, seven years ahead of the national carbon peak pledge. "Based on preliminary estimates, SPIC will reach the peak carbon emission in China by...