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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (Aug 27) that if he was re-elected, his administration would impose tariffs on any company that leaves the United States to create jobs elsewhere. "We will impose tariffs on any company that leaves America to produce jobs overseas," Trump said ...

Vietnamese weaver Phan Thi Thuan hitches up her trousers as she wades into a lotus paddy to gather the stems needed to make a rare and highly sought-after thread.

REUTERS: The U.S. government sought on Thursday to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts it said were used by North Korean hackers who stole millions of dollars of cryptocurrency from two virtual exchanges, and used Chinese traders to launder their funds. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil ...

TOKYO: Japan Display said on Friday it has agreed to sell a smartphone screen plant in central Japan to Sharp Corp for US$390 million, raising funds to repay debt it owes Apple Inc for the plant construction costs. The company said in a statement it will also sell screen...

Elon Musk said on Thursday that Tesla Inc's factory in Nevada was a target of a "serious" cybersecurity attack, confirming a media report that claimed an employee of the company helped the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) thwart the attack.

Facebook Inc on Thursday told Reuters that Apple Inc rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30per cent cut of sales in a new online events feature, forcing Facebook to remove the message to get the tool to users.

WASHINGTON: Asian equities are likely to have a bumpy ride on Friday after U.S. stocks scaled new peaks for a third straight day and bond yields surged on the Federal Reserve's average-inflation strategy, as well as a promising development in curbing the coronavirus pandemic. Markets swirled after ...

If the Democratic Party candidates win in November, they will reset America’s role in international politics and fix the damage done by the Trump presidency, says this observer.

Wall Street ended in a mixed fashion on Thursday (Aug 27) following the Federal Reserve's major inflation policy change, with the S&P posting a new record but the Nasdaq retreating.

China's ByteDance told engineers of its popular short-video app TikTok this week to make contingencies should it need to shut down its US operations, even as it works toward divesting them, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.