Key parts of China's services sector, such as restaurants and domestic travel, recovered well in the first quarter, but some sub-sectors such as home furnishing and construction are struggling

Defence minister Chiu Kuo-Cheng says Taiwan would not tolerate the destruction of TSMC's facilities to deter an attack by China, as some US strategists have suggested

CICC Capital, a unit of leading Chinese investment bank CICC managing over $50 billion in assets, has stopped using Capvision Partners' services, after Monday's state attack on advisory group

State media says consultants harmed national security by helping the West 'buy state secrets'; but lobby groups say raids on advisory group Capvision have damaged investor confidence

Observers have been bamboozled by measures such as restrictions on financial data and crackdowns on companies doing due diligence; analysts say security is trumping everything

Vietnam, Laos and the Thai capital Bangkok all experienced record temperatures in recent days, and weather forecasters suspect these all-time highs may not last for long

China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday it is imperative to stabilise Sino-US relations, after 'erroneous moves' on Taiwan put bilateral ties in deep freeze.

The experimental space vehicle's 276-day journey in orbit was hailed as "an important breakthrough" in China's research on reusable and "affordable spacecraft technologies"

The European Union has proposed sanctions on seven Hong Kong and mainland China companies accused of selling equipment that could be used in Russian weapons in Ukraine

The IMF is working on a bailout while Pakistan has assured its balance of payments gap will be fully funded, but $3 billion pledged by Saudi Arabia and UAE has yet to come through

State-owned companies and firms listed on the mainland have been ordered to do thorough reviews of auditors' ability to "safeguard information security"

The soybean, developed by privately-owned Shandong Shunfeng Biotechnology, has two modified genes that significantly raise the level of healthy fat oleic acid in the plant