The US dollar hit a 24-year high of 139.69 after gaining about 0.5% against the Japanese yen on Thursday, as investors brace for more US rates hikes.

Serious rights violations have been committed in Xinjiang under China's counter-terrorism strategies, the UN rights commissioner said in a report released on Wednesday

Officials in Chengdu, in the southwest, and Shenzhen, the tech hub in the southeast, have ramped up efforts to contain Covid as cases continued to rise on Thursday.

US officials tell California chip designer to stop exporting two top chips to China used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, satellite imagery and other purposes

Most Asian markets slipped on Wednesday as investor worries about monetary tightening were inflamed by strong US jobs data. But stocks in Korea edged up slightly

Toyota now plans to outlay $3.9 billion on an EV battery plant in North Carolina, it said on Wednesday, partly because of rising consumer demand.

Sri Lanka and the IMF have agreed on an emergency loan, sources say, for the crisis-wracked island nation, where people have faced shortages of food and basic goods

Officials in the southern city have clamped down to smother a potential outbreak after five local infections were reported on Tuesday. Some 41 cities now have restrictions imposed.

E-commerce giants, plus Yum China and their auditors have been told they will be among the first companies whose books are inspected by PCAOB regulators in Hong Kong next month

Covid restrictions and the worst heatwaves in decades weighed on China's factory activity, which continued to fall in August, according to data released by the statistics bureau on Wednesday.

China stocks slipped again on Tuesday amid concern about Covid restrictions, but markets in Japan, Australia and India all climbed higher. Eyes are now on US data on Friday.

The Solomon Islands has suspended entry of foreign navy vessels to its waters after US and UK ships on an illegal fishing patrol were rebuffed after trying to make port stops last week