China said on Friday President Xi Jinping would visit North Korea on a two-day trip from June 8, his first in nearly seven years as Beijing looks to reassert ties with Pyongyang, its only formal treaty ally.

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As AI heavyweights including Nvidia , Intel and SK Group last week championed Taiwan's significance as a crucial hub for the global supply chain, a hostile exchange with China was brewing at sea.

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US lawmakers urge tighter rules on contract chipmakers supplying Chinese firms' overseas units

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The Strait of Hormuz will be open but under new conditions to be set by Iran and Oman, including a transit fee, Iran's ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying on Monday.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China's Xi Jinping held a summit on Monday in Pyongyang and agreed to expand cooperation between the two countries in various sectors, North Korea's state media KCNA said on Tuesday.

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Spending on nuclear weapons by the world's nine nuclear-armed states rose by almost a fifth in 2025 to $119 billion, a report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Tuesday.

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China's crackdown on "illegal" cross-border investment won't lead to mainlanders' offshore accounts being closed and assets liquidated forcibly, the securities regulator said, amid investor concerns over the fate of $54 billion worth of assets.

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China will not swerve from its commitment to safeguarding common interests with North Korea or waver in its support for Kim Jong Un, President Xi Jinping told Pyongyang's leader on Monday during a rare summit.

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A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee

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China's e-commerce export engine is faltering as surging jet fuel costs and weak demand from lower-income consumers in the West linked to the Iran war threaten profits for big online platforms like Temu , Shein and AliExpress .

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China's export growth likely strengthened in May, underpinned by a backlog of overseas orders brought forward to pre-empt energy price pressures tied to the Gulf war, alongside sustained global demand for semiconductors and AI-related components.

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Asian stocks plunged on Monday as investors rushed out of the hottest AI-linked shares on fears the bull run has gone too far, too fast and as fresh hostilities in Iran pushed up oil prices.

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Chinese Coast Guard patrols to the east of Taiwan are a "provocative act" and the military will closely coordinate with the island's Coast Guard in responding, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Monday.

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EU conservative chief urges tougher China trade stance, Bild am Sonntag reports

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China's Xi says he will work with North Korea to fight hegemony, North Korean media says

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Taiwan needs to "spend smarter" on its defences and learn lessons from the Ukraine and Middle East wars on using drones to ensure the military balance with China, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Taipei said on Saturday.

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Boeing’s top services executive said on Saturday that the planemaker can provide aftermarket parts support to China to back a 200-plane order announced by the planemaker following a visit by U.S President Donald Trump to Beijing earlier this year.

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Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said North Korea will never back down on its status as a nuclear-armed state, warning that it will not tolerate any threats, state media agency KCNA said on Thursday.

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The Taiwanese and Chinese Coast Guards were engaged in another tense standoff near the strategically located Pratas Islands at the top of the South China Sea on Friday, Taiwan said, the second time in a fortnight that this has happened.

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The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is worried about its declining population and has announced cash incentives to families to produce more children.

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SpaceX's website and IPO marketing documents were not accessible on Friday in Hong Kong and mainland China, a Reuters review showed, a step that threatens to curb participation by investors there in a listing expected to be the world's largest.