SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Pharmaceutical research and development firms in China are increasingly interested in procuring critical supplies known as reagents from local manufacturers, industry executives and managers said, as they seek to cut costs and delivery times. Western reagent suppliers including U.S.-based Thermo Fisher Scientific and Germany's Merck have profited in the world's second-largest pharmaceutical market from the compounds used in lab...

* Western manufacturers like Thermo Fisher, Merck ( MRK ) are major reagent suppliers in China * Import tariffs, access concerns leading to more requests to Chinese manufacturers - executives * Merck ( MRK ) building factory in China closer to customers, Roche expanding a facility By Andrew Silver SHANGHAI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical research and development firms in...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Lenovo on Thursday reported a 108% rise in first-quarter profit despite challenges from U.S. tariff policies. Net profit attributable to shareholders was $505 million, above the consensus estimate of $307.7 million. The world's largest personal computer maker posted revenue of $18.8 billion for the three months ended June 30, beating analysts' expectations of $17.4 billion, according to...