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Tencent Music to buy Chinese audio platform Ximalaya for US$2.4 billion
Ximalaya counts Tencent, Baidu and Sony Group’s music entertainment unit as backers Chinese music platform Tencent Music Entertainment…
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Chinese managers take reins at TikTok Shop in US as sales miss goal
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has been replacing US-hired staff near Seattle with managers connected to China, aiming to replicate…
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Chinese man defies demolition orders to build madcap rural home
Surrounded by the rubble of demolished homes, Chen Tianming's ramshackle tower of faded plyboards and contorted beams juts into the sky in…
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More Chinese corporates eyeing deals in Asean, secondary listings on SGX
Chinese corporates are increasingly looking for deals in South-east Asia amid rising uncertainty from US trade policies, said Jason Saw,…
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Brazilian prosecutors sue Chinese carmaker BYD over labour conditions
Brazilian labour prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the Chinese auto manufacturer BYD and two contractors over allegations of…
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Japanese gas tanker giant Mitsui OSK sees difficulty buying Chinese vessels
Mitsui OSK Lines, owner of the world’s largest fleet of liquefied natural gas carriers, said it is hard to buy Chinese vessels for the…
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Weak Chinese demand leaves Australia with too much wheat
Australian wheat inventories will likely be much higher than last year at the end of the season, pressuring prices, because of a drop in…
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Cerberus eyes Chinese firm’s Darwin port: report
US private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is preparing a bid for the strategically important Port of Darwin, currently owned by…
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Chinese food delivery giant Meituan net profit up 46.2% in first quarter
The company controls nearly 70% of China’s delivery market, but rising competition could drive up costs and squeeze margins, analysts say…
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Goldman Sachs expects stronger yuan to boost Chinese stocks
The onshore yuan has gained around 1.4 per cent versus the greenback in May, and reached 7.1674 on Monday, its strongest level since…
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Xiaomi billionaire touts new Chinese chip in tech showcase
Xiaomi’s billionaire founder outlined plans Thursday (May 22) to outfit its top-end devices with advanced homegrown mobile processors,…
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DFI Retail Group’s Q1 underlying profit falls 18% on sale of Chinese supermarket
DFI Retail Group’s underlying profit for Q1 2025 fell 18 per cent compared with the same period a year ago, due to the divestment of…
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Trump Officials to Meet With Chinese Counterparts Amid Trade Standoff
Top officials from the Trump administration will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week, the first formal meeting…
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Chinese Imports to US Hit 20-Year Low as Tariffs Sink In
The share of U.S. imports from China in the first quarter of the year fell to its lowest point in over 20 years, as the high tariffs…
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Religious maritime pilgrimage mispresented as Chinese ships surrounding Taiwan
After China held large-scale military drills around Taiwan on April 1, footage of a convoy of ships spread in social media posts falsely…
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Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions
The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online…
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Trump Ends Chinese Tariff Loophole, Raising the Cost of Online Goods
The Trump administration on Friday officially eliminated a loophole that had allowed American shoppers to buy cheap goods from China…
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Chinese EV makers sell more plugin-hybrids in the EU to avoid tariffs: research firm
CHINESE carmakers including BYD and Chery are selling more plugin-hybrids in the European Union to avoid import tariffs on Chinese-made…
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Chinese sovereign fund CIC to sell US$1 billion of US private equity investments: sources
Chinese sovereign investor China Investment Corporation (CIC) is selling about US$1 billion of its private equity (PE) investment…
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Chinese Factories Slow in Early Sign of Trade War’s Toll
President Trump’s tariffs are already taking a toll on China’s factories. Three weeks into a trade war that pushed import tariffs of…
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France targets cheap Chinese goods with fee on packages
Asian, notably Chinese, online sellers send billions of small packages into the EU each year (JUSTIN SULLIVAN) France wants to start…
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Chinese firms dump Europe for Hong Kong to raise funds
CHINESE companies that once pursued additional listings in Europe are abandoning those plans after Beijing’s securities regulator…
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Musk’s Starlink races with Chinese rivals to dominate satellite internet
SPACE is about to get more crowded for Elon Musk. The billionaire’s Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff…
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Chinese bubble tea chain Mixue aims to raise HK$3.45 billion in Hong Kong IPO
Bookbuilding for the IPO starts on Friday and the stock is due to begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Mar 3 CHINA’S largest…