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BEIJING: China’s economy is expected to have grown “around 5 per cent” in 2025, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday (Dec 31), despite “pressure” during a year he described as “very unusual”, state media reported.

The announcement came in Xi’s…

Dec 30 : ‌The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands has sued Meta Platforms, accusing the Facebook and Instagram owner of deliberately profiting from advertisements for scams and failing to keep its social media platforms safe for…

JERUSALEM, Dec 30 : ‌Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Israel-based AI startup AI21 Labs for as much as $3 billion, the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday.

Nvidia declined to comment, while AI21 was not immediately available to…

TAIPEI: Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometre semiconductor chips, the company said in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday (Dec 31).

TSMC is the world’s largest contract maker of chips, used in…

BEIJING: China’s ‌manufacturing activity unexpectedly grew in December, snapping eight straight months of decline, giving policymakers some confidence as they raced to meet their economic growth target for the year.

The manufacturing purchasing…

SEOUL, Dec 31 : South Korea’s consumer inflation for 2025 slowed to 2.1 per cent from 2.3 per cent in 2024, official data showed on Wednesday, roughly in line ‌with the Bank of ‌Korea’s target of 2 per cent to potentially bolster the case for…

Dec ‌30 : Global investment firm KKR and its affiliated Korean asset manager, Kreate Asset Management, said on Tuesday they have purchased Cheongna Logistics Center, in what they called South Korea’s largest single-asset logistics deal. 

The…

WASHINGTON, ‌Dec 30 : Two U.S. cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty after they were accused of working with a notorious ransomware gang to shake down American targets, the Justice Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

Justice…

WASHINGTON, ‌Dec 30 : President Donald Trump’s administration has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to the spy software consortium Intellexa, according to a notice published to the U.S. Treasury’s website.

The move partially reverses the…