Airlines reroute planes around Afghanistan after Taliban takeover
United, British Airways and Singapore Airlines are avoiding Afghanistan airspace after Taliban fighters took over the country.
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Japan's Nikkei 225 falls nearly 2%; China economic data disappoints
A slew of Chinese economic data, including industrial production and retail sales for July, was released on Monday.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and cabinet resign, palace confirms
The resignation comes as Malaysia grapples with its worst Covid-19 outbreak and the economic hit from multiple rounds of lockdowns.
Malaysia Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to resign on Monday, local media reports
If confirmed, Muhyiddin's resignation would end a tumultuous 17 months in office but also bring more uncertainty to Malaysia.
Taliban enter Afghan capital as U.S. forces evacuate diplomats
The U.S. forces returning to Afghanistan are tasked with a "very narrowly focused mission" of evacuating embassy staff in Kabul.
A bunch of MIT students got $100 of free bitcoin in 2014 – some got rich, some wasted it on sushi
In 2014, MIT computer science student Jeremy Rubin offered all undergraduate students on campus $100 worth of bitcoin.
Climate change is making people think twice about having children
A growing number of people are reluctant to bring a child into a world that's set to be ravaged by climate change in the coming decades.
The family that bet everything on bitcoin when it was $900 is now storing it in secret vaults on four different continents
Didi Taihuttu and the "Bitcoin Family" are safeguarding most of their crypto fortune in secret vaults across four different continents.
It just got harder and less profitable to mine for bitcoin as algorithm adjusts
Early Friday morning, the bitcoin code automatically made it about 7.3% more difficult to mine.
U.S. chip start-up says its work with UK’s biggest plant came to a ‘screeching halt’ after Chinese takeover
Ideal Semiconductor was getting silicon wafers processed at the Newport Wafer Fab in Wales up until the fab was acquired by Chinese-owned Nexperia.
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Amazon plans to film second ‘Lord of the Rings’ series in the U.K. instead of New Zealand
Amazon has announced it is going to film the second season of its "Lord of the Rings" series in the U.K. rather than New Zealand.
Asia-Pacific stocks mostly decline; Samsung shares fall as heir Lee is released from prison
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee was released from prison on Friday.
This map shows the latest Covid outbreak in mainland China
Locally transmitted cases reported in mainland China have increased this month as the highly transmissible delta variant spreads across the country.
Asian markets lower as currencies rise on weaker dollar; EV maker Li Auto shares slip on debut
Markets will continue to monitor the Covid situation after the World Health Organization warned global cases could pass 300 million by early next year.
You can be taxed for buying a cup of coffee with bitcoin using a crypto credit card, but there are ways around it
Visa and MasterCard are trying to help users spend and earn bitcoin, but accountants say these crypto debit and credit cards can lead to confusing tax bills.
'People are not bargaining chips' – U.S. blasts China over sentencing of Canadian man in case linked to Huawei
Secretary of State Antony Blinken slammed the proceedings against Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat charged with espionage.
Semiconductor veteran confirms he's part of a £300 million plan to buy the UK’s largest chip plant back off China
Ron Black, the former CEO of the U.K.'s Imagination Technologies which used to design chips for Apple, is part of a group that wants to buy Newport Wafer Fab.
Chinese stocks muted as shares of indebted property developer Evergrande and its units soar
Wall Street was boosted by the U.S. Senate's $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which includes $550 billion in new spending on transportation and broadband.
SoftBank unit behind risky multibillion-dollar tech bets dumps Microsoft, Facebook, Alphabet and Netflix shares
SoftBank has offloaded shares of U.S. tech giants like Facebook, Microsoft, Alphabet and Netflix, according to its latest financial report.
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