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President Donald Trump signed legislation on Thursday to bar telecom carriers from using U.S. subsidies to purchase network equipment from Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corp and other companies deemed a national security threat.

France will authorise the use of some of Huawei's equipment in the rollout of its 5G network, two sources close to the matter told Reuters, despite U.S. calls to exclude the Chinese telecoms giant from the West's next-generation communications.

Starbucks will invest 900 million yuan (US$130 million) to build the first phase of a coffee complex in the Chinese city of Kunshan, near the commercial hub of Shanghai, with completion targeted for 2022, it said on Friday.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking court permission to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a US$10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp, court filings showed on Thursday.

SINGAPORE: Changi Airport saw a 32.8 per cent year-on-year decline in passenger movements in February as air travel demand continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 situation, the Changi Airport Group (CAG) said in a news release on Friday (Mar 13). There were 3.45 million passenger movements last ......

Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down a network of Russian-linked fake accounts operated out of Ghana and Nigeria which targeted the United States.

Oil prices fell on Friday for a third day, with Brent crude set for its biggest weekly drop since 1991 and U.S. crude heading for the worst week since 2008 as panic about plunging demand from the coronavirus outbreak grips the market.

Perhaps the biggest fallout of Mr Trump’s address was what he did not say, says The Financial Times’ Edward Luce.

The U.S. Trade Representative's office said it granted on Thursday exclusions from import tariffs for some medical products imported from China, including face masks, stethoscope covers and blood pressure cuff sleeves.

CHICAGO: The entry of commercial lab companies Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings and Quest Diagnostics to help identify cases of the new COVID-19 does not seem to be easing the burden of testing in the United States. Boosting testing capacity is crucial to assessing the scope of the ...