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SHANGHAI — China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it would further curb minors’ access to its flagship video game, hours after its shares were battered by a state media article that described online games as “spiritual opium.” Economic Information Daily cited Tencent’s “Honor of Kings” in an article in which it said minors were

LONDON/MELBOURNE — Financial firms including British insurer Prudential, lenders Citi and HSBC and BlackRock Real Assets are devising plans to speed the closure of Asia’s coal-fired power plants in order to lower the biggest source of carbon emissions, five people with knowledge of the initiative said. The novel proposal, which is being driven by the

SHANGHAI — China’s technology and chip sectors came under fresh selling pressure on Tuesday after state media attacked the country’s largest social media and video game firm, Tencent Holdings Ltd, and regulators said they are launching an investigation into chip distributors in the auto industry. The broadside comes days after the securities regulator and state

CAIRO — Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday it is time for the subsidized bread loaf to increase in price. “I’m not saying we make it significantly more expensive, but (increasing the price) is necessary,” he said. (Reporting by Omar Fahmy, editing by Louise Heavens)

SYDNEY/HONG KONG/NEW YORK — Jack Dorsey introduced the world to expressing itself in just 140 characters as the creator of Twitter Inc, and his payments company, Square Inc, also likes getting straight to the point. Square’s purchase of Australian buy now, pay later provider Afterpay Ltd for $29 billion in stock, the largest ever acquisition

LONDON — Oil rose on Tuesday on expectation of a continuous decline in U.S. oil inventories, recouping some losses from the previous session due to lingering concern over rising cases of the Delta coronavirus variant. Brent, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose 60 cents, or 0.8%, to $73.49 a barrel, at 0905 GMT. U.S.

Gold prices were caught in a tight range on Tuesday as investors held back from making large bets ahead of U.S. jobs data later this week expected to shed more light on labor market health and the Federal Reserve’s tapering timeline. Spot gold slipped 0.2% to $1,810.40 per ounce by 0859 GMT, while U.S. gold

SHANGHAI — China’s technology and chip sectors came under fresh selling pressure on Tuesday after state media attacked the country’s largest social media and video game firm, Tencent Holdings Ltd, and regulators said they are launching an investigation into chip distributors in the auto industry. The broadside comes days after the securities regulator and state

BEIJING — China is poised to quicken spending on infrastructure projects while the central bank supports with modest easing steps, as risks from the Delta variant and floods threaten to slow its recovery, policy insiders and analysts said. Chinese leaders are seeking to prevent a sharper growth slowdown in the second half that could lead

Distribution partnership needed to meet demand for the next generation of SOAR solutions VANCOUVER, British Columbia — D3 Security, the provider of next-generation security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) solutions, today announced a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation, a leading provider of distribution, systems design and integration services for the technology industry, to offer the