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Swiss agree to extradite suspected Chinese 'pharma spy' to US
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
Gongda Xue, aged around 50 and living in Switzerland, is the brother of Yu Xue, a biochemist who last year pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from drugmak...
US senators warn of 'trust' gap over Facebook digital currency
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
The lawmakers were the latest to criticize Facebook's digital coin plan unveiled last month with two dozen partners and touted as a way to lower costs and facil...
Malaysia to challenge EU palm oil curbs at WTO
Jul 16, 2019 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian country is the world's second biggest palm oil producer after Indonesia and would be hit hard by the EU's plan to cut its use in biofuels by...
US-China trade officials to talk again 'this week': official
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
That would be the second call in two weeks by senior officials from Washington and Beijing as the thaw in fraught trade negotiations continues. "We expect to ha...
Tech tax set to dominate G7 finance minisers meeting
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
During the meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Chantilly, ministers are set to discuss making taxation fairer as part of wider plans by G7 leaders to address ris...
China GDP growth slows to 6.2% in second quarter
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
The slowing economy makes it more difficult for President Xi Jinping to fight back forcefully against Washington -- which is using tariffs as leverage to try to...
US trade negotiators will travel to China in 'very near future': official
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping agreed to "fully engage" on trade when they met in Osaka at the end of June, and since then trade officials...
China police bust bitcoin miners for stealing $3 mn in electricity
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
A decentralised virtual currency, bitcoin can be produced or "mined" by banks of computers solving complex algorithms. The mining process can be very expensive ...
China's GDP growth seen slowing to 6.2% in second quarter: AFP poll
Jul 12, 2019 (AFP)
The world's second largest economy expanded 6.2 percent in April-June, the poll of 10 economists predicted, ahead of the official release of gross domestic prod...
UK unveils draft law to tax tech giants
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
The proposed levy, which will be consulted on until September, will target "large digital businesses" and reflect "the value derived from their UK users", accor...
US seeks to ease dispute between S.Korea, Japan
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
South Korea said Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha in a telephone call with Pompeo brought up the intensifying row, in which Japan has ended expedited shipments o...
China says US trade issues are 'definitely' resolvable
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
Washington and Beijing have hit each other with punitive tariffs covering more than $360 billion in two-way trade, damaging manufacturers on both sides of the P...
Regulators have serious questions about Libra: Bank of France
Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)
Facebook unveiled plans last month for a new global cryptocurrency called Libra, pledging to deliver a stable virtual money that lives on smartphones and could ...
US, China negotiators resume trade war talks
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
Talks had broken down in May over US accusations that Beijing had reneged on its commitments, and the dispute escalated with the two sides exchanging steep incr...
China factory price inflation slips as trade war pressure grows
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
At the same time consumer prices managed to meet expectations but the main support came from a surge in food prices owing to the impact of African swine fever o...
S. Korea warns of 'prolonged' export row with Japan
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
Tokyo last week said it would stop shipment of compounds used by major firms including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in the manufacture of microchips and sma...
US central bank to study Facebook virtual currency
Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)
At a hearing at the US House Financial Services Committee, Powell told lawmakers that the cryptocurrency plan raises "serious" questions. "Let me start by sayin...
US asks Swiss to extradite accused Chinese pharma spy
Jul 09, 2019 (AFP)
Gongda Xue, a Chinese national living in Switzerland, is the brother of Yu Xue, who last year pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal trade secrets from GSK in or...
Poland urges China to boost investment, drop tariffs
Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)
Poland in January arrested a former executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei suspected of spying, casting doubt over its bid to develop a 5G network in the EU...
US slaps new duties on steel from Mexico and China
Jul 08, 2019 (AFP)
The decision comes two months after President Donald Trump agreed to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada after the three nations agreed on...
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