BEIJING – China offered to buy more goods from Brunei and to encourage investment in the Islamic sultanate as President Xi Jinping
HONG KONG – Alibaba Group’s Hong Kong shares slumped 10% on Friday after it scrapped plans to spin off its cloud business, citing uncertainties fuelled by U.S. curbs on exports to China of chips used in artificial intelligence applications. The stock opened down
SAN FRANCISCO – President Joe Biden will highlight strong US ties to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum economies on Thursday, despite a failure to make progress on key trade provisions
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that Asia’s two largest economies should reaffirm their strategic relationship in their first face-to-face talks in a year that
SAN FRANCISCO – Countries in the United States-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework have agreed on two more “pillars” of the initiative, covering cooperation
NEW YORK — The percentage of TikTok users who regularly access news via the app rose to 43% in 2023 from 22%
NEW YORK — New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, accusing the beverage and snack food giant of polluting the environment and
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has
WOODSIDE, California — US President Joseph R. Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed on Wednesday to open a presidential hotline, resume
GAZA/JERUSALEM — Israel said its forces were operating in and around Gaza’s biggest hospital, a chief objective in its campaign to destroy
