Taiwan is investigating whether a Chinese chip firm backed by US-based Synopsys Inc. is illegally poaching engineers from local giants including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., underscoring growing concern about Beijing’s…
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Why Another ‘Crypto Winter’ Is Test for Digital Money
The latest slump in digital assets has been gut-wrenching for those investors who bought in at the peak last year. Even crypto diehards, while still convinced that the world is…
Debris From a Chinese Space Rocket Is Crashing Toward Earth
Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash to Earth some time over the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land across a wide swathe of…
South Korea Probes $3.4 Billion of Crypto-linked FX Transactions
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service is probing $3.4 billion worth of “abnormal” foreign-exchange transactions at two of the country’s largest commercial banks for possible links to illegal crypto-related activities. Unusual…
Sub-Sea Cable Firm OMS Weighs $300 Million Malaysia IPO, Sources Say
OMS Group Sdn., a Malaysia-based company that installs cable underwater, is weighing a listing in Kuala Lumpur as soon as next year that could raise as much as $300 million,…
South Korea Requires Terra Founder to Notify When He’s Back
South Korean prosecutors confirmed that they would require Do Kwon, the founder of cryptocurrency startup Terraform Labs, to notify authorities when he returns to the country, as they investigate allegations…
Alibaba Primary Listing May Lure Billions of Dollars From China
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. may attract at least $16 billion of Chinese money by shifting to a primary listing in Hong Kong, strategists say, getting a much-needed boost as its…