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China's Guangdong engages in building industrial cluster for high-end manufacturing
Xinhua News Agency
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A staff member checks a laser equipment at Guangdong Lyric Robot Automation Co., Ltd. in Huizhou, south China's Guangdong Province, June 27, 2025. Guangdong Province has been bolstering its pivot cities including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan and...
Japan's tax revenue set to hit record for 5th year, topping ¥75 tril
Japan Today
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June 30, 2025
Japan's tax revenue for fiscal 2024 is likely to have reached a record high for the fifth straight year, topping 75 trillion yen for the first time, on the back of robust corporate earnings, government sources said Monday. Price hikes by companies...
Market Trading Guide: Bank of Baroda, Adani Green among 5 stocks to buy on Tuesday for near term gains up to 6%
The Economic Times
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June 30, 2025
India’s headline indices ended Monday in the red, breaking their four-session winning streak amid profit booking in auto and bank stocks. The Nifty index has formed a bearish engulfing pattern on the daily timeframe, indicating fatigue in the...
China's bond market issuances reach 7.2 tln yuan in May
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Bond issuances in China neared 7.2 trillion yuan (about 1 trillion U.S. dollars) in May this year, data from the country's central bank shows. Specifically, issuances of treasury bonds came in at 1.49 trillion yuan,...
India refuses to give in to US demand on agriculture in trade talks
The Hindu Business Line
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June 30, 2025
Ihe Indian negotiating team will stay back in Washington DC for the next few days to see if a deal could still emerge by the D-Day | Photo Credit: egromov India has refused to give in to the US demand for market access in sensitive agriculture...
China firmly opposes forced closure of Hikvision's business in Canada: commerce ministry
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes Canada's order to cease the operations of Chinese firm Hikvision in Canada, the Ministry of Commerce said Monday. China has noticed that the Canadian side has...
India extends quantitative curbs on low ash low ash met coke, MIP on soda ash
The Economic Times
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June 30, 2025
New Delhi: India has extended the country-wise quantitative restrictions (QR) on import of low ash metallurgical coke for six more months, till December 31, 2025, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade said in a notification Monday. The QRs were...
ASEAN–India Cruise Dialogue 2025 signals strengthened cruise cooperation
The Hindu Business Line
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June 30, 2025
Sarbananda Sonowal , Union Shipping Minister flanked by T K Ramachandran (left), Secretary, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Sunil Paliwal (right), Chairperson, Chennai Port Authority at a press conference in Chennai | Photo Credit:...
China grants 3.08 bln USD QDII quota in financial opening move
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The State Administration of Foreign Exchange has recently granted a total of 3.08 billion U.S. dollars in investment quotas to eligible Qualified Domestic Institutional Investors (QDII) to meet the demand for overseas...
Japanese Unicorns and Promising Startups Worth Watching
TechNews180
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June 30, 2025
All the myths go that Japan is slow to accept startups. While long-time household names like Sony, Toyota, and Panasonic have dominated the landscape, a quiet revolution is sweeping across the innovation economy. Japanese startups no longer exist...
India doesn’t need to build its own LLMs, but we need local context: NxtGen CEO
The Hindu Business Line
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June 30, 2025
NxtGen Cloud Technologies, a sovereign cloud provider focusing on the Indian enterprise space, serves many large government initiatives and runs infrastructure for private enterprises like Toyota, Quadrage, and Sleepwell.NxtGen also emerged as the...
Asean firms squeezed at home, undercut abroad, by Chinese rivals
The Straits Times
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June 30, 2025
Workers at a shoe factory for export in Hanoi. The diversion of export-oriented supply chains from China to Asean, including Vietnam, is one of the second-order effects of US tariffs on China.PHOTO: REUTERS During the period January to September...
Markets and missiles: What the Israel/Iran conflict signals for the global economy
The Irish News
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In a world where financial markets used to melt at every puff of Middle Eastern smoke, it’s remarkable how composed they’ve become, even as drones and missiles whizzed between Iran and Israel. Our investment team have been here many times and...
Japan pushes preemptive cyber defense, calls on firms to act （2025/7/1）
The Mainichi
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Japan's parliament enacts on May 16, 2025, a law to allow preemptive "active cyber defense." (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- With a national election nearing, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's minority government rushed to enact cyber defense legislation...
Japan’s Democratic Party for the People Mixes Momentum and Backlash
The Diplomat
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June 30, 2025
Japan’s opposition parties are preparing to ramp up campaigning ahead of the upper house election, set for July 20, with efforts to draw clearer distinctions from the ruling coalition. But Democratic Party for the People (DPFP) faced an early...
China Leads the World in AI Energy Innovation
Oil Price
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June 30, 2025
China is increasingly integrating artificial intelligence into its energy system to increase the sector’s efficiency and enhance national energy security. From managing energy storage to more accurately forecasting energy supply and demand, large...
?India?s food security at risk?: Why GTRI opposes import duty cut on US farm goods
Mint
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June 30, 2025
India should retain its policy space in the agriculture sector under the proposed trade agreement with the US, the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said on Monday. Any reduction in the import duties on American farm goods could compromise...
Japan business mood improves despite tariff risks, BOJ tankan shows
Yahoo Finance
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Business sentiment among Japan's big manufacturers unexpectedly improved in the three months to June, a central bank survey showed on Tuesday, a sign companies are still awaiting clarity on the potential hit from...
Asia’s Golden Icon Awards recognizes SM Investments CEO for financial excellence leadership
Manila Standard
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June 30, 2025
PASAY CITY, Philippines, June 30, 2025 – In a time when financial leadership is increasingly defined by resilience, innovation, and social impact, Frederic C. DyBuncio, President and CEO of SM Investments Corporation (SM Investments), has been...
China’s home appliance giant empowers local talent, fuels industrial growth in Egypt
Borneo Post
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June 30, 2025
Staff members work at the workshop of Haier Egypt Electric Appliances Co. Limited at Haier Egypt Ecological Park, in Sharqia Province, Egypt, June 16, 2025. (Xinhua/Sui Xiankai) CAIRO (July 1): Tarek Baligh, a 27-year-old graduate in Chinese...