Chinese President stressed innovation and hailed progress in the areas of space flight and exploration, quantum information and supercomputers.

US student visas issued to Indian nationals soared by 60% from October 2021 to July 2022, while visas issued to Chinese nationals plunged by 30%

The data for China's gross domestic product had been highly anticipated after its economy grew just 0.4% in the second quarter. Other economic data has also been suspended.

South Korea's technology ministry is probing whether the outage violated any laws, with compensation of $8.4 million expected for users

Japan's defence ministry has asked for a 3.6% rise in spending to $37.98 billion for the next financial year, equivalent to 1% of GDP

India is set to overtake Japan as the third largest car market by 2025, but it still lacks charging stations, the Chinese outlet reports.

"Complete reunification of the motherland must be achieved, and it must be achieved!" said Xi Jinping, as he was met with a long round of applause.

Xi said his ruling party will continue to wage an "all out people's war to stop the spread of the virus."

"There is a need to make a quick move to attract more foreign investment into our treasury bond market," finance minister Choo Kyung-said.

Economy minister Wang Mei-hua said she received "great interest" from meetings with Cisco Systems Inc, NVIDIA Corp, Applied Materials Inc and Synopsys Inc.

Taiwan's politicians felt Musk's views were driven by his business interests in China, Taiwan News said.

The world's poorest countries face $35 billion in debt-service payments, with more than 40% of the total due to China, the World Bank said.