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In his Hangzhou apartment in eastern China, Wen Hao had just finished his daily stockpicking video when he discovered he'd been barred from social media platform Toutiao, a day after inviting netizens to join his stock-recommending community.

HONG KONG: Kuaishou Technology surged three-fold in its Hong Kong stock market debut on Friday after a US$5.4 billion IPO, as a global retail trading frenzy brought in massive demand from mom-and-pop investors for the Chinese online video service operator. The first-day pop, while among the ...

SINGAPORE: More than 70 individuals and nine F&B outlets were fined and three establishments were ordered to close for breaching COVID-19 regulations, the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) said on Friday (Feb 5). A total of 74 individuals were fined S$300 each for breaching safe ...

Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own content deals with publishers in a drive to show legislation proposed by Canberra to enforce payments, a world first, is unnecessary.

U.S. job growth likely rebounded in January as authorities began easing COVID-19 restrictions on businesses with the ebbing pace of infections, which could offer the strongest signal yet that the worst of the labor market turmoil was behind after the economy shed jobs in December.

Shares in Chinese video app company Kuaishou almost tripled on their Hong Kong debut Friday, following a $5.4 billion initial public offering for the TikTok rival that was the biggest for an internet firm in nearly two years.

South Korea and COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna Inc are in discussions over a US$200 million investment by the U.S. drugmaker in the country to build a factory, as it seeks to expand in Asia.

Japanese drinks giant Kirin Holdings said on Friday it was scrapping its beer alliance with a top Myanmar conglomerate whose owners have been identified by the United Nations as members of the military, which overthrew the elected government this week.

Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Friday the United States thanked the island for help on auto chip production in a meeting on semiconductor supply chains amid a global shortage of chips used by automakers.

Online brokerage app Robinhood said on Thursday it has removed temporary trading restrictions on all stocks, including GameStop Corp and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc, according to an update on its website.