Chinese officials plan to ease share financing rules for some real estate-linked firms, but analysts say it will take at least a year for the property sector to emerge from mountains of debt

Japan's core consumer inflation rate rose 3% last month to a new high, adding pressure on the Bank of Japan and its soft interest rate policy, which has caused the yen to plummet

Seven Chinese have been charged with harassing a US resident and his family in a bid to make him back to China, as part of a campaign to force wanted fugitives to return

Japan will undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War Two amid growing concern about the war in Ukraine and Beijing's plan to takeover Taiwan

City awards $191-million contract to build quarantine centre on Fuxing Island, in the Huangpu River, while officials in Beijing step up checks and lock down compounds as cases rise

Two main coalitions are vying to form government – Barisan Nasional, which is the current ruling coalition, and the opposition Pakatan Harapan.

China defended its foreign policy stance on Thursday as its diplomats are embroiled a drama that saw a Hong Kong protester assaulted after being dragged into its consulate in Manchester.

Central bank unable to slow drop past key level, despite vow to buy 100 billion yen ($667 million) of state debt with 10-20 maturities plus another 100bn of bonds with maturities of 5-10 years

Carmakers in China delivered a million cars to dealers in the first nine months of this year – a record number, but a local brokerage said the market looks set to slow in 2023 as demand is softening

Falling prices and cooling demand in China, because of the prolonged crisis in its property sector, caused Rio to more than halve its interim dividend payout in July

The US-China trade conflict and the escalation of cross-Strait tensions have brought serious challenges, TSMC chairman Mark Liu says

The share of defective micro-circuits and components in deliveries to Russian companies from China has increased from 2% to 40% since the invasion in Ukraine, a local report says