The United States on Tuesday said it will impose additional 25 percent duties on another $16 billion in Chinese imports starting Aug. 23 in an escalating trade war between the world's two biggest economies.

Global stock prices rose on Tuesday on the back of solid second-quarter US corporate earnings which temporarily took investor attention off festering trade wars, dealers said.

Most major Asian markets rose on Tuesday following another positive Wall Street lead, with energy firms up with oil prices as the US prepares to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

Most major Asian markets rose on Tuesday following another positive Wall Street lead, with energy firms surging along with oil prices.

Asset World Corp has announced the Tor Yor Online business-to-business (B2B) platform, which offers a wholesale e-commerce service for online-to-offline (O2O) trading.

Banking giant HSBC said on Monday that pre-tax profit rose 4.58 percent to $10.7 billion in the first six months of the year and voiced «cautious optimism» despite the China-US trade row.

Watchdog conducts close inspection of cybersecurity systems of stock brokers 

Residents of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao will no longer need work permits when they are hired by enterprises on the Chinese mainland, meaning they will be treated the same as local residents.

Asian countries have voiced concern about the potentially devastating impact of a US-China trade war, with ministers calling for the acceleration of talks for a gigantic Beijing-backed free-trade deal that excludes the United States.

New duties to target different products, industries if US escalates trade friction

Muay Thai boxing and Thai foods kicked off the two-day Thai Festival 2018 on Saturday in India’s high-energy entrepreneurial city. The Royal Thai Consulate-General launched the festival at the Phoenix Market City Mall in the city’s centre.

China's foreign minister said Saturday that his country's threat to impose retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of American goods in an escalating trade spat was «fully justified».

The US trade deficit swelled in June by the largest amount in 19 months, reversing much of May's trade-war driven export bonanza, even as brinkmanship between Beijing and Washington worsened.

Global stock markets pushed higher on Friday as a positive US jobs report apparently outweighed the latest escalation of US-China trade threats.

The New York Stock Exchange's parent company announced plans on Friday to launch a bitcoin trading platform and partner with Starbucks on a digital currency payment app.

Asian markets fluctuated on Friday after another painful week as fears of an all-out trade war between China and the United States keep investors on edge.

Asian markets sank Thursday on mounting trade war fears after the US warned it was looking at more than doubling threatened tariffs on a range of Chinese imports.

Profits at Societe Generale were buoyed by growth abroad, as results released Thursday showed the French bank continues to pressed by ultra low interest rates at home in the eurozone.

PRIME MINISTER General Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged all concerned parties to focus on producing a competent workforce and re-educate low-skilled labour to help the country move into the future.

Global stocks mostly fell Wednesday on revived trade war fears following reports that US President Donald Trump plans steeper tariffs on Chinese goods.

The United States may jack up the tariff rate on the next $200 billion in Chinese imports it plans to target as it pressures Beijing to reform its trade practices, US officials said Wednesday.

Kasikornbank (KBank) is expanding its global fund transfer service for retail customers through cooperation with the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) to receive real-time transfers from Singapore or KBank to recipient accounts in 21 other banks in Thailand.

Pipit Aneaknithi, Kasikornbank president, revealed that on July 25, KBank found that 3,000 names of corporate customers using KBank’s website for the letter of guarantee service might have been leaked.

Huawei rose to the second position in global smartphone market, according to the Q2/2018 report from IDC, having secured a market share of 15.4 per cent by selling 54.2 million handsets to surpass Apple.

Sony on Tuesday revised upward its full-year profit and sales forecast, reporting first quarter profits nearly tripled from a year earlier, as it extends a roaring recovery under its new CEO.

Nintendo said Tuesday its quarterly net profit jumped 43.9 percent year-on-year to $275 million, driven by the global popularity of its Switch console and game titles.

Asian markets were mixed on Tuesday as the Bank of Japan tweaked its monetary policy in a bid to make its massive easing programme sustainable, with stocks recovering early losses fuelled by a slump among US tech firms.

Global stocks fell Monday, with US tech equities suffering another significant tumble on worries of slowing growth in the influential sector.

Wall Street stocks on Friday finished the week on a downbeat note, with the tech-rich Nasdaq sinking 1.5 percent on worries that US economic growth has peaked.

US oil giant Exxon Mobil reported another round of disappointing results on Friday, sending shares sharply lower at it moved to address rising criticism of its communications and operations.

Twitter shares took a pounding on Friday after it reported a decline in its user base, extending a stock market bloodbath for what had been a sizzling social media sector.

Asian stocks erased early gains and slipped back Thursday as investor relief at US President Donald Trump and the European Commission chief's plan to ease trade tensions was offset by disappointing US earnings.

US computer chip giant Qualcomm said Wednesday it was set to drop a $43 billion acquisition of Dutch rival NXP after failing to win approval of antitrust authorities in China.

Facebook shares went into a freefall Wednesday as a stunningly weak financial outlook raised fresh concerns for the social networking giant as it tries to recover from the impact of data protection scandals and investigations.