Business China’s August exports to North Korea up for third straight month US probes possible insider trading at Binance: Report India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance, report shows Covid-19: France suspends 3,000 unvaccinated health workers New aluminium capacity to eventually tame rampant prices Nissan develops technology to halve recycling cost of rare earths India’s economic growth accelerates to 20.1% year-on-year in April to June quarter Suzuki’s factory in Hungary to halt production for two weeks due to chip shortage China August factory activity seen growing at slightly slower pace – Reuters poll Australia considering new laws for Apple, Google, WeChat digital wallets China’s Tianqi turns first profit in two years on lithium price rally StarHub to offer S$120 in perks to customers who turn in pirate set-top boxes US weighs crackdown on China’s import of Iranian oil Rowing: Joan Poh first Singapore athlete to participate at Tokyo Olympics, finishes sixth in her heat Tesla will ‘most likely’ restart accepting bitcoin as payments, says Elon Musk Uber’s trucking unit to buy Transplace for US$2.25 billion ‘I can’t stop now’: Business owners hang on despite running up losses amid tighter COVID-19 restrictions COVAX to deliver about 1.4 billion COVID-19 doses over 6 months: Canada minister TikTok tells employees to return to office for three days a week Covid-19: Dutch PM Rutte ‘sorry for easing restrictions too soon’ Recently leader Kim Jong-un formally acknowledged that the country was facing food shortages Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content in India Biden orders probe after massive ransomware attack potentially hit 1,000 businesses Australian state reports drop in new COVID-19 cases; lockdowns ease in some areas Progress on COVID-19 and economy under Biden, but disunion haunts US on its 245th birthday Oil price spike would accelerate US shift to electric vehicles: Kemp India’s Bharti invests $500m in UK space start-up OneWeb New UK laws to sweep away EU state aid rules Malaysia’s May exports rise 47.3% on-year, below forecast Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may embrace bitcoin (more…)
