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As users flock to superapps such as WeChat, search engines fight for dwindling market
Lucrative but divisive new football competition aims to boost governing body’s revenues
Prices tumble after steep decline in demand for hog feed
Think-tank says China’s lack of institutional mechanisms poses risk to region’s borrowers
Chatter at IMF and World Bank meetings focused on trade and economic uncertainty
Crises such as Hong Kong protests and African swine fever offer sterner test of party’s grip on power
Former White House aide is trying to unite the west in opposition to Beijing on trade
Bruno Le Maire urges Washington to resolve dispute over aircraft subsidies
Positive news on trade, Brexit and German spending could fuel a year-end surge
Expansion of 6% is worst in three decades due to trade war with US and cooling investment
FTSE 100 company reveals 36 per cent fall in revenues in region
Historical hacks; Chinese gulags; UK schools; Extinction Rebellion: Preston; and more.
But other smartphone makers will find it hard to follow South Korean giant
Recent softening of tensions is not enough to help world economy, IMF head says
Economy expected to expand by just 1 per cent next year as trade war bites
Plan for a wholly owned Chinese securities arm will test Asia-Pacific chief’s talent for diplomacy
Trade war and flagging demand create empty space in top-grade properties
Overseas deal binges by companies drive lenders to boost in-house capabilities
How a youth-led movement took on the world’s most powerful authoritarian state
The president has merged America’s economic policy with its security strategy
Small city state ‘bearing brunt’ of US-China trade dispute
Malaise in vehicles used to boost economy reflects dwindling options for policymakers
Market share under threat as competition grows in a slowing global economy
