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WASHINGTON: The Justice Department on Monday (Jun 7) recovered around US$2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline Co, cracking down on hackers who launched the most disruptive US cyberattack on record. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said investigators had seized 63.7 ...

Growth in Japan's bank lending slowed sharply in May as corporate demand for funds subsided, data showed on Tuesday, a sign the economy is steadily emerging from last year's severe hit from the coronavirus pandemic.

President Joe Biden's order last week banning U.S. investment in certain Chinese companies is broader than a similar one signed by his predecessor Donald Trump and has a lower bar, making it easier to add more companies later.

Apple Inc on Monday said a new "private relay" feature designed to obscure a user's web browsing behavior from internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China for regulatory reasons.

Japan's real wages posted the biggest monthly rise in more than a decade in April as overtime pay and compensation of part-timers rebounded, although the gains were inflated due to the comparison with last year's pandemic-driven fall.

A group of 50 investors managing more than US$4.5 trillion in assets is calling on companies involved in the development and use of facial recognition technology, such as Amazon and Facebook, to do so in an ethical way.

Recent ransomware attacks, and cryptocurrencies’ central role in enabling them, highlight longstanding concerns, says an economist.

DBS on Monday received the official green light for its majority-owned securities joint venture (JV) in China, with the attainment of its securities business licence from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).

U.S. tech giants could benefit from the agreement of the Group of Seven rich countries' agreement to create a global minimum 15per cent corporate tax rate if the final deal also scraps increasingly popular digital services taxes, according to industry lobbyists.

WASHINGTON: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday signaled a possible resumption of trade and investment talks with Taiwan stalled since the Obama administration, but gave no indication of any willingness to pursue a full-scale trade pact Taipei has been seeking. At a House Foreign ...