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  • The flags of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), left, and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. (HKEx), right, in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Hong Kong’s stock exchange reported its highest quarterly profit in nearly four years after China’s stimulus measures boosted trading and listing volume. Photographer: Yik Yeung-man/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAsia

    AI chip designer Biren’s shares surge 76% on debut in Hong Kong

    By Sangmi Cha, Chongjing Li, and others
  • Richard Li, founder of FWD Group Holdings Ltd., attends the company’s listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, July 7, 2025. The insurer’s debut comes after Li son of famed Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-shing  tried to take the company public in New York in 2021, which was abandoned after regulatory scrutiny. Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Richard Li’s FWD rises in HK debut, reversing earlier decline

    By Sangmi Cha and Bloomberg
  • The NetEase Games logo displayed at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. The show runs through to Sept. 24. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    NetEase shares near record high as China’s Gen Z embraces games

    By Henry Ren, Sangmi Cha, and others
  • A worker tests a Hanhwa K9 Howitzer at Hanwha Aerospace Co.’s manufacturing facility in Changwon, South Korea, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Hanwha Aerospace Co., Korea’s leading defense contractor, has been making ground weapons for almost 50 years, their old-school armored vehicles and munitions are in high demand. Photographer: Woohae Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Hanwha in advanced talks over arms production for Saudi Arabia

    By Sangmi Cha, Youkyung Lee, and others
  • Rows of mock 30mm shells are seen at Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon on November 21, 2024. Longstanding domestic policy bars Seoul from providing weapons into active conflict zones, but ever since its spy agency accused the nuclear-armed North last month of sending thousands of soldiers to help Moscow fight Kyiv, South Korea has warned it might change course. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY SKorea-NKorea-Ukraine-weaponry-conflict / FOCUS BY Kang Jin-kyu (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Korean arms maker’s 3,100% rally tests limit of defense boom

    By Heejin Kim, Sangmi Cha, and others
  • HAIKOU, CHINA – SEPTEMBER 29: Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, speaks during 2020 China Green Companies Summit on September 29, 2020 in Haikou, Hainan Province of China. (Photo by Liu Yang/VCG via Getty Images)Finance

    Xi-Jack Ma chat seen as next catalyst for blistering China rally

    By Sangmi Cha and Bloomberg
  • SUQIAN, CHINA – NOVEMBER 6, 2024 – Illustration Wisesoft, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China, 6 November 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)Finance

    ‘Trump wins big’ meme stock soars in China, ‘Harris’ shares drop

    By Sangmi Cha and Bloomberg
  • Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at PPL Center, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Finance

    ‘Trump wins big’ meme stock surges in China ahead of U.S. election

    By Charlotte Yang, Sangmi Cha, and others
  • SHANGHAI, CHINA – AUGUST 05: An electronic screen displays the Shanghai Composite Index, the Shenzhen Component Index and the Hang Seng Index on August 5, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)Finance

    Investors are so down on China that MSCI is dropping Chinese stocks from its benchmark for the third time this year

    By Abhishek Vishnoi, Sangmi Cha, and others
  • TOPSHOT – Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with US President Joe Biden at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    A Chinese company’s shares jumped 10% during the U.S. presidential debate because its name sounds like ‘Trump wins big’

    By Sangmi Cha and Bloomberg
  • The Hanwha Group booth at the Canadian Association of Defence & Security Industries (CANSEC) trade show in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. CANSEC showcases technology, products, and services for land-based, naval, aerospace and joint forces military units. Photographer: David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Russia’s war in Ukraine has turned South Korea into a manufacturing hotspot as it makes weapons faster and cheaper than the U.S.

    By Sangmi Cha, Soo-Hyang Choi, and others
  • The best restaurant in the world right now is Barcelona’s Disfrutar.Lifestyle

    Nearly half of the world’s top 50 restaurants are in Europe—and Barcelona has grabbed the top spot

    By Kate Krader, Sangmi Cha, and others
  • Merchandise lines the shelves of a GameStop storeFinance

    GameStop shares jump 103% as meme stock Reddit driver DeepF— Value posted an apparent $116 million position in the game retailer

    By Sangmi Cha, Subrat Patnaik, and others
  • A man walks past accessories of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 displayed on a wall during a media preview event for a new flagship store of Samsung Electronics at the Gangnam district in Seoul on June 28, 2023. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

    South Koreans just became a year—or two—younger

    By Shinhye Kang, Sangmi Cha, and others
  • Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive officer of Terraform Labs, works on his laptop in the company’s office in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Kwon is counting on the oldest cryptocurrency as a backstop for his stablecoin, which some critics liken to a ginormous Ponzi scheme. Photographer: Woohae Cho/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Fugitive Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon reportedly hiding out in Serbia

    By Shinhye Kang, Sangmi Cha, and others