Singapore-based online grocery retailer Webuy staff is offloading containers filled with goods shipped from China.SINGAPORE -- Vincent Xue runs an online grocery retail business, offering fresh produce, canned food, packaged easy-to-cook ingredients to cost-conscious local consumers in Singapore.Xue's Nasdaq-listed Webuy Global sources primarily from suppliers in China. Since late...
SHENZHEN, CHINA - APRIL 12: A woman checks her smartphone while walking past a busy intersection in front of a Sam's Club membership store and a McDonald's restaurant on April 12, 2025 in Shenzhen, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images NewsAs sky-high tariffs kill U.S. orders for Chinese goods,...
Dilara Irem Sancar | Anadolu | Getty ImagesChina last week announced it was done retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, saying any further increases by the U.S. would be a "joke," and Beijing would "ignore" them.Instead of continuing to focus on tariffing goods, however, China has chosen to...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian attends a news conference in China on December 20, 2021. China warned on Thursday it would take strong measures if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, following media reports she would go next week.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty...
Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), pictured here on April 2, 2020, broke ground on its first overseas factory in Germany in late 2019 and plans to add up to 2,000 jobs there by 2025.Martin Schutt | picture alliance | Getty ImagesChina's Contemporary Amperex Technology posted a 9.7%...
PORTSMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 28: The container ship Vung Tau Express sails loaded with shipping containers close to the English coast on October 28, 2024 in Portsmouth, England. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAs the specter of Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs looms, several Asian economies that...
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesChina's finance ministry said Tuesday it will impose additional tariffs of 15% on coal and liquified natural gas imports from the U.S. and 10% higher duties on crude oil, farm equipment and certain cars, starting Feb. 10.The tariffs announcement comes as the additional...
HSBC Holdings Plc building at Canada Square in Canary Wharf financial district on 15th August 2023 in London, United Kingdom. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty ImagesEurope's largest lender HSBC on Tuesday announced it will repurchase up to $3 billion in shares as it issued a third-quarter earnings report...
A customer is seen inside a 7-Eleven convenience store along a street in central Tokyo on September 9, 2024. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty ImagesJapanese convenience retailer Seven & i Holdings slashed its earnings forecasts and pressed ahead with restructuring plans that include spinning off non-core businesses into...