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China to break up Ant’s Alipay, force creation of separate loans app

Plan will also see app turn over user data to new partly state-owned credit scoring joint venture

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Oil climbs to one-week high on US supply concerns

Brent crude rises to US$73.40 a barrel

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To ease employers’ burden, EPF launches 2 new initiatives

They are an exemption on late payment charges and Employer Pay for Reduction

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After the ‘bazooka’, Bank of Japan dismantles work of its radical chief

Lender pioneering measures that blur lines between central banking and politics

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Bursa opens lower, ringgit falters

FBM KLCI falls 5.63 points to 1,570.34 from last Friday’s close of 1,575.97

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S. Korea proposes Asean digital trade pact

It moots one similar to Digital Economy Partnership Agreement between S’pore, New Zealand, Chile

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BMW China recalls 142,754 vehicles over potential defect

Flaws related to fuel tanks may cause leakage, market regulator says

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Self-made China billionaire battles to save debt-mired Evergrande

Xu Jiayin also faces govt crackdown on extreme wealth, with president leading ‘common prosperity’ push

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Toyota, Honda oppose Dems’ electric car tax plan

Proposal to give union-made EVs in country an additional US$4,500 incentive will be voted on next week

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Afghan remittance payouts limited to local currency

Instruction by central bank is latest move to preserve scarce US dollars

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IT giant Salesforce offers to move staff out of Texas after abortion law

We all have deeply held and different perspectives, software firm tells staff in memo

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Blackstone axes US$3 bil takeover of property giant Soho China

US private equity firm’s June offer had been conditional upon clearance from Chinese competition authorities

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Car parts supplier Aptiv flags Asean chip constraints in Q3

CFO says govts taking meaningful stance on production closures given Covid-19 outbreaks in Malaysia, Thailand