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EU leaders round on Trump over trade at G7
AFP, Published on 25/08/2019
» BIARRITZ, France: EU leaders rounded on US President Donald Trump over his trade threats Saturday at a G7 summit in France overshadowed by trans-Atlantic tensions and worries about the global economy.
US to hit Mexico with tariffs over 'illegal migrants'
AFP, Published on 31/05/2019
» WASHINGTON: Washington will impose a five percent tariff on all goods from Mexico starting June 10, a measure that will last until "illegal migrants" stop coming through the country into the US, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Fears as Chinese investment in Australia falls
AFP, Published on 21/05/2019
» SYDNEY: Chinese investment in Australia has fallen to its lowest level in five years, new research shows, sparking calls for the newly re-elected conservative government to improve its rocky relationship with Beijing.
Japan shows better-than-expected growth
AFP, Published on 20/05/2019
» TOKYO: Japanese GDP expanded a better-than-expected 0.5% in the first quarter of this year, official data showed Monday, although analysts cautioned that the world's third-largest economy was still facing headwinds.
Trump to China: Trade deal now or it will be 'far worse'
AFP, Published on 12/05/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump warned China on Saturday that it should strike a trade deal with the United States now, otherwise an agreement would be "far worse for them if it has to be negotiated in my second term."
China's Xi defends Belt and Road, says 'not exclusive club'
AFP, Published on 26/04/2019
» BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping sought on Friday to ease growing concerns about his ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, vowing to prevent debt risks and saying his global infrastructure project "is not an exclusive club".
Under Donald Trump, Fed faces politicisation
AFP, Published on 07/04/2019
» WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve has regularly faced criticism from Donald Trump, but in recent days the president took matters into his own hands -- raising concerns that the Fed is being politicised.
Asian markets plunge
AFP, Published on 25/03/2019
» HONG KONG: Asian markets plunged on Monday after a sharp sell-off on Wall Street fuelled by concerns about the global economy and a possible recession in the United States.
A day not to 'like' for Facebook, hit by outage, criminal probe
AFP, Published on 14/03/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook grappled with challenges on two fronts on Wednesday, an hours-long outage and intensified scrutiny from investigators reportedly probing data deals struck by the world's largest social network.
Facebook chief: 'We don't sell people's data'
AFP, Published on 25/01/2019
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday renewed his defence of the social network's business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people's data.