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Chinese internet giant Tencent is in early talks to take a stake in the Universal Music Group, a behemoth in the global music industry, UMG's French owner said on Tuesday.

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: Twenty people were hospitalised in Kyrgyzstan following a skirmish between employees of a Chinese-owned mine and villagers living close to the gold deposit, officials said on Tuesday (Aug 6). Nineteen employees of the Chinese company that operates the Solton Sary gold mine in ...

A Seoul district was forced to backtrack within hours of starting to put up more than 1,000 anti-Japan banners in the centre of the South Korean capital on Tuesday as a trade dispute rages between the neighbours.

SINGAPORE: Financial institutions must comply with a new set of requirements by next year to "raise the cyber security standards and strengthen cyber resilience" of the sector, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Tuesday (Aug 6).  The legally binding notice on cyber hygiene sets out ...

Goldman Sachs said it no longer expects the United States and China to agree on a deal to end their prolonged trade dispute before the November 2020 presidential election as policymakers from the world's largest economies are "taking a harder line".

A recent graduate of Pennsylvania's Haverford College who tried to obtain Donald Trump's tax returns through a computer lab there has agreed to plead guilty to cybersecurity violations, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

The US has labelled China a currency manipulator. Were Beijing to sell off its Treasury holdings in retaliation, extreme market volatility would follow, says the Financial Times' John Plender.

Indonesia's push to cut its reliance on foreign funds to fill the yawning current account gap has prompted it to chase a new and growing source of funding - digitally savvy millennials.

French media conglomerate Vivendi said it had started talks with Tencent Holdings to sell an initial 10per cent stake in its Universal Music Group (UMG) division.

REUTERS: Antivirus startup Cybereason said on Tuesday it raised US$200 million in investment from Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, doubling the total investments raised by the company so far to about US$400 million. The Boston-based company, which was founded in 2012, has previously raised capital ...