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An Indian factory's ambitious aim to make iPhones outside China

In recent months, workers began testing and assembling Apple's iPhone X, which will be sold in India first and eventually exported

Jack Dorsey's 'hacked' account posts offensive tweets, firm says probe on

More than 15 tweets, many containing swear words and racist comments, were posted shortly before 4 p.m. New York time

From Shanghai to Dhaka, Asia should fix its megacities, not move them

In Indonesia, land-use controls were aggressively deregulated in the 1980s while entire sectors of the economy were opened up to direct investment

How periodic table has become menu for a world hungry for material benefits

Almost every entry on the periodic table is being put to some kind of use today

Trump denies US involvement in Iranian missile explosion, tweets photo

Tensions between the US and Iran have escalated since the president abandoned the 2015 multilateral deal to stem the Islamic Republic's nuclear program

Brexit showdown looms for pound as divided UK Parliament returns

Strategists see pound support on bid to block no-deal Brexit

Goldman Sachs joins predictions of deeper India rate cuts as slowdown drags

Goldman slashed its growth forecast to 6 per cent for the current fiscal year to March from 6.9 per cent earlier.

Trump confronts hurricane 'Dorian' threatening his re-election and property

Florida is critical to the president's chances for re-election, making it imperative that the government not fumble any storm response

Why this August was a particularly bad month for emerging-market investors

Argentina imploded. Beijing let the yuan slip to the lowest in at least a decade. Global central banks signaled they're spooked about slowing growth by rushing to cut rates

Asia needs to manage its megacities better rather than build new ones

The real issue remains failures of governance in an era of fast urbanization

Government creates banking behemoths to boost India's flagging economy

News of the mergers comes minutes before official data is expected to confirm a fifth-straight quarter of slowing economic growth

China cuts taxes in Shanghai FTZ to lure investment, undo trade war damage

The new preferential policies come as rising labour and land costs, along with higher US tariffs on Chinese goods, prompt some foreign firms to move their production facilities overseas

Heir to Samsung empire being tried for graft; three horses hold the key

South Korea's top court has ordered the retrial of the Samsung Electronics vice-chairman over bribery charges, reviving uncertainty around the country's most important company

Indian economic slowdown drags: Experts say only big bang reforms will help

Data due Friday is expected to show gross domestic product growth slowed for a fifth straight quarter to 5.7 per cent in the three months ended June

New speed breaker on India's road to $ 5 trn economy; NHAI's mounting debt

NHAI's debt has increased seven-fold in the past five years

Samsung's Jay Y Lee faces a retrial that could put him back in jail

Lee is the designated heir to South Korea's largest conglomerate and a national icon

Xi to deliver major speech to 'mobilise the whole party, whole military'

The speech on October 1 will be accompanied by a national day parade showcasing China's advances in military technology

Trade war: China indicates it won't retaliate now on new US tariffs

China has hit back against each previous tariff increase by the US, so not responding in kind this time may signal a change in strategy

People may have to work just 12 hours a week thanks to AI, says Jack Ma

Just this year, Ma had endorsed the China tech sector's infamous 12-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week routine, so common it earned the moniker 996

Jobs in exchange for consumers: India offers sensible bargain to the world

The pragmatic stance taken on retail is the first good step that goes beyond damage control and toward filling a strategic gap