China’s securities regulator and its industry body are moving to close compensation and integrity loopholes across the brokerage industry, extending anti-corruption oversight to overseas operations for the first time as Beijing seeks
China’s securities regulator and its industry body are moving to close compensation and integrity loopholes across the brokerage industry, extending anti-corruption oversight to overseas operations for the first time as Beijing seeks
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China has launched a 500-tonne production line designed to recover rubidium and caesium from waste generated during lithium extraction, opening a new route to two strategic metals that are difficult to obtain
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China’s new exit and entry rules are tightening Beijing’s control over international travel, with citizens involved in politics, technology and strategically sensitive industries facing greater scrutiny and restrictions in the name of
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To understand India’s growing trade imbalance with China, look inside Indian factories, The New York Times reports. Chinese machinery, electronic components and industrial materials remain deeply embedded in Indian production. Electric vehicle
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Japan and China are cautiously restoring dialogue after tensions over Taiwan, but deep strategic differences remain. Japanese lawmakers are seeking engagement, while Beijing continues to demand changes to Tokyo’s Taiwan position. Experts
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India’s growing influence within BRICS and the Global South gives it an opportunity to challenge the dominance of the Western-led international order. With the BRICS presidency, New Delhi can push for greater
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Apple should ultimately bear responsibility for losses arising from more than 700 unauthorised credit card transactions in Hong Kong, Election Committee sector legislator Johnny Ng Kit-chong has said, as questions mount over
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China’s top intelligence official has warned that artificial intelligence is creating new national security risks and becoming a major arena of strategic competition between global powers, calling for stronger safeguards and international
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Hong Kong’s first-ever five-year plan will not alter the city’s capitalist system but will seek to make full use of its advantages in shaping the territory’s long-term development, Chief Executive John Lee
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Artificial intelligence agents are increasingly being deployed to design China’s next-generation semiconductors as Beijing and domestic technology companies accelerate efforts to integrate AI into chip design software and strengthen national self-sufficiency. Empyrean
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The enlargement of BRICS presents Africa with a wider field of economic possibilities by bringing the continent into closer relationship with some of the world’s largest markets, important sources of development finance
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President Xi Jinping’s forthcoming visit to the United States must be understood as more than an encounter between two heads of state, but it must be seen as an encounter between two
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared that the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become the world’s most influential platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries, positioning the grouping at the centre
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by Our Correspondent in New Delhi The BRICS New Delhi Declaration is less a routine summit communiqué than a broad statement of intent about how its members believe the international system should
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka, proposing the revival of a bilateral free-trade agreement,
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