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South Korea's economy has been hit by a trade spat with Japan as well as the China-US tariffs row

China expressed "strong indignation" over the passing of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by the US House of Representatives

Some 6,400 teams from more than 80 countries entered the competition, according to organisers of the 'K-pop World Festival' in Changwon

After receiving a backlash yesterday, Apple released an official statement about the Fraudulent Website Warnings issue with Tencent.

JPMorgan Chase reported higher third-quarter profits behind strength in key consumer banking businesses as Chief Executive Jamie Dimon offered a mixed economic outlook

Chile's finance minister, Felipe Larrain, pictured in Mexico in 2018, says a US-China trade deal would be highly significant

Traders ignored an IMF report revising global growth forecasts lower.

The IMF describes the global slowdown as synchronized and warns there's little room for policymakers to make errors.

While North Korea downplays the African Swine Fever epidemic, South Korea has taken an aggressive stand on the matter by ordering its snipers to eliminate the influx of wayward boars into the country.

IMF growth forecasts by region and selected countries

IMF growth forecasts by region and selected countries

The US-China trade war has stunted the growth of European powerhouse Germany

Chinese-made cars waiting to be loaded on a ship for export in Lianyungang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. The IMF has trimmed China's growth forecast for 2019 on the back of the trade war with the US and weak domestic consumer demand

Apple faces scrutiny as critics questions its loyalty to user privacy after allegedly sending user data to China's Tencent.

China has said there is 'no difference' with the US on reaching a trade deal amid scepticism about what President Trump has announced as a 'substantial phase one' agreement

LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers feels that Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey should have been more cautious before airing his comments on social media.

Apple is planning to make more iPhone 11 smartphones before the year ends and places a gargantuan target for this quarter.

Tripoli's streets are notoriously clogged with three million vehicles in a city of two million people, where petrol costs 10 cents a litre

LA Lakers superstar LeBron James gestures while playing against the Brooklyn Nets on October 10 in Shanghai

An animated film titled “Abominable” produced by China’s Pearl Studio and the U.S.-based Dream Works Animation has been pulled from Vietnamese cinemas. The reason for the film’s ban is a scene showing China’s internationally contested Nine-Dash Line on a map giving China sovereignty of the entire South China Sea, some of which lie inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James gestures while playing against the Brooklyn Nets on October 10, 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China