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With the aim of drawing a clear picture of healthcare IT spend in Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan), IDC released a new report entitled “The new Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) Healthcare IT Sector Spending Forecast and Trends, 2017-2022”. The report shows that Asia/Pacific healthcare IT sector spending is forecast to increase from USD 12.2 billion in 2019 to USD 14.9 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 7%. This IDC analysis report scans the regional trends and draws a picture, detailing the emerging trends in various countries aligning with their respective spending forecasts.

US President Donald Trump has hinted for the first time that Huawei could be included in a trade resolution deal, as negotiators from Washington and Beijing, continue to battle it out for trade supremacy in a row that may well threaten the global economy.

US technology behemoth Apple could be one of the main targets for China as they look to retaliate and respond to the US campaign against Huawei by Washington.

ZTE Corporation and China Mobile Research Institute have been rewarded the 2018-2019 Best Technology Innovation Award for 5G Transport by means of the 5G ultra-high-precision synchronous network solution.

Chinese telecommunications conglomerate Huawei has stepped up its legal battle in the United States by filing a lawsuit which is requesting that a US court overturn a federal ban that has been imposed on the company.

PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier telecommunications service provider, and disaster communications organization Télécoms Sans Frontières have received official recognition from the Mozambique National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) for their combined and ongoing mission to provide critical communications services in support of relief efforts following two tropical cyclones which devastated the southern African country recently.

Huawei today filed a motion for summary judgment as part of the process to challenge the constitutionality of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (2019 NDAA).

Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has issued a defiant statement on the future of his company and declared that the Chinese ICT leader will be not be destroyed by a piece of paper from the US government.

In his keynote remarks delivered yesterday at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity in Berlin, Germany, Ken Hu, Deputy Chairman, Huawei said that in recent days, restrictions, based on ungrounded allegations, have been imposed on Huawei in order to disrupt business operations.

Japan electronics behemoth Panasonic has dealt another hammer blow to Huawei after officially announcing that it will stop supplying components to the Chinese vendor following its US ban.