Category: Asia
JD.com sales during China shopping festival beat expectations -analysts
By Casey Hall and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Sales on JD.com’s e-commerce site during China’s mid-year shopping festival – the…
Buffett adds to his holdings of Japanese trading houses
(Reuters) -Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said on Monday it added to holdings in Japan’s five biggest trading houses,…
New China-focused hedge fund bucks trend to raise more than $100 million
By Summer Zhen and Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) – A new China-focused hedge fund, led by a former Hillhouse…
Blinken, Qin hold ‘candid’ talks, US and China agree to meet again
By Humeyra Pamuk BEIJING (Reuters) -The U.S. secretary of state and Chinese foreign minister on Sunday held what both called…
Exclusive-China’s Xi tells Bill Gates he welcomes U.S. AI tech in China-sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the global rise of artificial intelligence with Bill Gates on Friday and…
Price war: Amazon excludes rival Temu from competitive price checks
By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amazon is excluding its new competitor Temu from its price searching algorithm that…
Americans should prepare for cyber sabotage from Chinese hackers, US official warns
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese hackers are all but certain to disrupt American critical infrastructure, such as pipelines…
Iran’s Khamenei says ‘nothing wrong’ with a nuclear deal with West
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday said a deal with the West over Tehran’s nuclear work…
Saudi Arabia seeks cooperation with China, ‘ignores’ Western worries
By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Maha El Dahan RIYADH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia wants to collaborate, not compete, with China, the…