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JAKARTA/SHANGHAI -- Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia's defense minister and president-elect, met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing, state media Xinhua reported, cementing his relationship with Beijing ahead of his inauguration in October.
TOKYO -- ChatGPT developer OpenAI is set to launch its first Asian base with an office in Tokyo this month, intending to provide tailored corporate services and participate in creating a governance framework for the technology, Nikkei has learned.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Sunday its experts have held talks with their Chinese counterparts to try to assuage Beijing’s concerns over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.
China's technological progress cannot be stopped, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte when they met in Beijing Wednesday for talks on areas such as the critical semiconductor industry.
SHANGHAI -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday met top U.S. business executives before holding talks with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, as Beijing courts foreign investment and tries to stave off capital flight.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore's financial regulator is pushing family office applicants to respond promptly to scrutiny, or risk having their efforts to obtain tax breaks rendered fruitless, as the Southeast Asian financial center tightens procedures around foreign wealth inflows in the wake of a massive money laundering bust.
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters met with the head of China's foreign exchange regulator on Monday, a month after the bank suspended new investments by its clients in the country into offshore products via a quota-based channel.Winters exchanged views with Zhu Hexin, the head of China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), on China's financial opening up and the establishment of a treasury center, among other topics, according to a statement from the regulator issued late on Monday.Last month, the London-headquartered bank said in a client note that it would not take new subscriptions into offshore-domiciled funds sold via China's qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) program, governed by SAFE.StanChart cited "commercial reasons" for the suspension.Analysts, however, say the suspension was probably because StanChart's QDII quota capacity may have been reached given a surge in demand by Chinese investors to invest offshore via the QDII program.It was unclear if Winters and Zhu discussed quota issuance.Separately, StanChart said in a statement that its fully-owned investment banking unit, Standard Chartered Securities China, commenced operations from Friday last week, the latest global financial firm to take advantage of the opening up of China's securities brokerage sector."We have confidence in China's continued financial sector opening and economic transition," Winters said."The inauguration of SCSCL will enhance Standard Chartered's ability to serve clients domestically and internationally, deepening and diversifying our capabilities in China".StanChart started hiring staff in China since 2023 as it geared up to launch the investment banking unit targeting niche bond deals, chairman of the
Apple could double down on the China smartphone market amid declining iPhone sales and stiff competition in the country, Wedbush Securities said on Monday.