The strategy is aimed not only at TikTok, which is not available in China, but all of ByteDance's non-China focused businesses, the sources said. Such businesses also include units in India like social networking app Helo

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Retail sales plunged 13.7% in April from a year earlier, heavily weighed by slumping demand for general merchandise, clothing and vehicles

Trump has called hydroxychloroquine a \"game-changer\" drug in the fight against the coronavirus

Twitter fact-checked U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time on Tuesday over his claims about mail-in ballots, under what it says was an extension of a \"misleading information policy\" aimed at combating misinformation about COVID-19

India on Wednesday said it was engaged with China to peacefully resolve the border row, in a carefully crafted reaction to Trump's offer to arbitrate between the two Asian giants to settle their decades-old dispute

Trump said in a Twitter post the United States had told India and China that it was ready to arbitrate their \"raging border dispute\"

On March 3, the government had put export restrictions on 26 pharma ingredients and medicines, including paracetamol, a common pain reliever also sold as acetaminophen, amid coronavirus outbreak

Data sourced from CEIC website showed that India saw the steepest fall in exports in April compared to a group of 20-22 countries, whose April numbers were available -- most of which belonged to the Asia & Oceanic region

The company's operations in the ASEAN region will see substantial changes as part of the plan. Nissan would shut down its factory in Indonesia and rely on Thailand as its sole production base while it will also exit the South Korean market

It seems investors are sitting on boundaries in a wait-and-watch mode and traders are reaping gains from the volatility cycle in which the benchmark indices are stuck.

Overseas, markets rose on hopes of economic recovery as countries eased lockdown restrictions. Asian stocks extended gains tracking US markets that closed higher, driven by rising optimism around the re-opening of the world economy

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Last year, the city was rocked for months by often violent pro-democracy demonstrations over an unsuccessful bid to introduce an extradition law to China

On Wednesday, Chinese scientists dismissed the reports that the deadly virus which struck Wuhan and later turned into a pandemic paralysing the world originated in the seafood market in Wuhan

Forex traders said rising US-China tension weighed on the local currency even as positive domestic equities and improving risk appetite supported the local unit

Chinese surveyors have conducted six rounds of scaled measurement and scientific research on Mt Everest and released the height of the peak twice in 1975 and 2005, which was 8,848.13 meters and 8,844.43 meters respectively

In a statement, notifying to the US Congress, Pompeo said Hong Kong does not continue to warrant treatment under United States laws in the same manner as US laws were applied to Hong Kong before July 1997

U.S. stock futures, S&P 500 e-minis ESc1, rose 0.36% on Thursday in Asia following another positive session on Wall Street overnight, highlighting the positive mood

Donald Trump, after Twitter fact-checked his tweets, said that social media platforms shut down conservative voices and that he would shut them down or strongly regulate these platforms