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Finance ministers from the G7 group of rich nations are meeting in London on Friday for two days of talks aimed at moving closer to a global deal to raise more tax from the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon.
Taiwan's economy is expected to grow 5.46per cent in 2021, the statistics agency said on Friday, upgrading a previous forecast of 4.64per cent predicted in February on the back of a strong rebound in exports.
TAIPEI: Major Taiwanese chip packager King Yuan Electronics said on Friday (Jun 4) it will halt production on the island for two days after several employees contracted COVID-19, the first time the pandemic has hit the global chip hub, as case numbers climb. The rare uptick in infections in tech...
SINGAPORE: Singapore's retail sales surged 54 per cent in April from the same period last year, when the country first entered a "circuit breaker" period to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to official data released on Friday (Jun 4). Retail sales growth in April was also a jump...
TOKYO :Honda Motor Co said on Friday it will end production at its powertrain unit factory in Japan's Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo in 2025, to adapt to environmental changes surrounding the global auto industry.
Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Honda Motor Co Ltd saw lower sales in May in China, the world's biggest vehicle market, while Toyota Motor Corp reported higher sales.
China said on Friday that it strongly condemned U.S. President Joe Biden's signing of an order to ban investment in dozens of Chinese defense and tech firms.
FRANKFURT: A German company that operates technology for the nation's cooperative banks said on Friday that it was experiencing continued distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks throughout the night. In such attacks, hackers attempt to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data ...
Thailand has room for further monetary easing to support its economic recovery, which is expected to be slow, uneven and clouded by the unknown path of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.
