Новости за 18.05.2021

REUTERS: China's Chongqing Shunbo Aluminum Co, a maker of recycled aluminium products, said on Wednesday it planned to build a 5.6 billion yuan (US$868.45 million) production base in the country&#

WeRide, an autonomous driving startup backed by Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, said on Thursday that it has raised hundreds of millions of dollars valuing the company at US$3.3 billion.

:China's top e-commerce platform Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Thursday posted its first quarterly operating loss since going public in 2014 due to a record anti-monopoly fine by the country's

NEW YORK: Bitcoin fell to a more than two-month low on Thursday (May 13) in the wake of Teslachief Elon Musk reversing his stance on accepting the digital currency, selling off for a second straight s

Taiwan's Foxconn, which assembles iPhones for Apple, on Friday reported better-than-expected first-quarter profit amid the work-from-home trend spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that has stoked dem

NEW YORK :U.S. stocks rallied in a sharp rebound on Friday as investors set aside inflation worries and bought shares hammered by the week's volatility, with the shift back into riskier assets dra

AMMAN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday urged the international community to protect the Palestinians and stop Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Investors should take note of Hong Kong developers, says the Financial Times June Yoon.

South Korea's top government think-tank on Thursday called on the central bank to maintain loose monetary policy for the time being and raised its economic growth forecasts for the current year.

Google has won a deal to provide cloud services to Elon Musk's SpaceX, which has launched a slew of Starlink satellites to provide high-speed internet, it said on Thursday.

The charge is mostly due to impairment of assets and goodwill at digital marketing firm Amobee and cybersecurity business Trustwave.

NEW YORK: Pablo Picasso's "Woman Sitting Near a Window (Marie-Therese)" sold on Thursday (May 14) for US$103.4 million at Christie's in New York, the auction house said. The painting

More than 1.5 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have been injected into people's arms around the world, six months after the vaccination drive started, according to an AFP count.

We got an awful lot right during the COVID crisis - an awful lot that we couldn't have got right just a few years earlier.

Sri Lanka, World Bank sign agreement for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment World Bank Group

Xbox Series X and S are getting Dolby Vision gaming, Microsoft confirms CNET

LONDON: The British economy contracted by a quarterly rate of 1.5 per cent in the first three months of 2021, a relatively modest contraction given that the country was in the midst of a strict lockdo

The number of China's new investors grew in April at its slowest pace in 13 months, hit by a lack of upside momentum for the stock market and persistent worries over policy tightening.

Tesla Inc has suspended the use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles because of climate concerns, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said in a tweet on Wednesday (May 12), reversing the company's st

French food group Danone, under pressure from investment funds over its shareholder returns, on Wednesday said it is selling a potential US$2 billion stake in China Mengniu Dairy Company.

Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Japanese power utilities and trading houses to build a renewable power plant in Japan to procure clean energy for its local data centres, the Nikkei reported late on Th

WASHINGTON :A U.S. Senate committee voted 24-4 to pass a compromise measure authorizing more than US$110 billion for basic and advanced technology research over five years in the face of rising compet

Japan's economy is set to grow much slower than previously hoped this quarter, hobbled by extended emergency measures put in place to halt a rise in coronavirus infections, a Reuters poll showed.

YANGON: If you need cash in Myanmar, you have to get up early. Queues start forming outside banks at 4am, where the first 15 or 30 customers are given a plastic token that will allow them to enter the

TOKYO: Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co plans to restart a 44-year-old nuclear reactor in June that has been off line since the wake of the Fukushima disaster 10 years ago, but will shut it down a