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When 32-year-old photographer Jaco Xu needed a run-around car for work in the eastern city of Hangzhou, the price tag on the latest micro EV from GM's China joint venture overcame his qualms about electric vehicles.

The Justice Department early Friday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to allow the government to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering WeChat for download in U.S. app stores pending an appeal.

SINGAPORE: Local food manufacturers can now apply to list their products on the FairPrice Marketplace platform, under an initiative that will help them improve their visibility in the market and allow them to test the reception to their new items. The initiative, called YummySG!, was launched by ...

SEOUL: Kim Eun-hee wants to complete her collection of memorabilia of Korean boy band BTS by bidding more than US$120,000 to buy shares in the group's music label Big Hit Entertainment in South Korea's hottest IPO, which could even shake money-markets. Fervour is building among die-hard South ...

US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday (Sep 24) it is initiating its final Phase 3 clinical trial for its potential COVID-19 vaccine.

Silicon Valley's innovation engine has been slow to produce useful new tools to help firefighters like Dave Winnacker extinguish the deadly blazes that each year fill California's skies with smoke.

Google has removed images from its Street View that allowed users to virtually walk on Australia's Uluru, a sacred Aboriginal site closed to tourists since last year, the company said Friday.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina: US President Donald Trump on Thursday (Sep 24) signed two executive orders on healthcare for Americans that lawyers said will carry little weight, as the president seeks to boost his flagging credibility with voters on the hot-button issue ahead of the Nov 3 presidential ...

China's electric vehicle startups are on the charge again, thanks to Tesla.

SAN FRANCISCO: Tyler Technologies said the hacking attack against it disclosed Wednesday used ransomware, which encrypts company files and demands payment to decrypt them again. In a statement to Reuters, the vendor of software to counties and municipalities said the hacker only reached internal ...