CEO Elon Musk has told Tesla executives to "pause all hiring worldwide", saying he needs to cut staff at the electric carmaker as a global downturn appears to be looming

Scott Farquhar, Australia's fourth-richest person, says working from home is the ''future of how we will work'' and invited Tesla employees to join him.

Amazon.com said on Thursday it will immediately stop supplying retailers in China with its Kindle e-readers and will shut its China Kindle e-bookstore in a year's time

Western financial firms have been warned that China's new cybersecurity rules could pose 'significant systemic risks' to their operations

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank "will not hold this year's annual meeting in Russia as planned", but stage a virtual meeting from its office in Beijing instead, a report by Nikkei says

Markets slid lower in China and India on Wednesday, while stocks in Japan were boosted by a jump in the auto sector, and there were gains in Australia helped by GDP data that topped forecasts

He Xiaopeng, the CEO of one of Tesla's biggest local rivals, says China is still at least ten years away from being a true global leader.

The Chinese government faces a shortfall in revenue of about 6 trillion yuan ($895 billion) and is likely to increase its debt load to make up the funding gap, a report by CNBC said

Officials in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province are giving out millions in cash via the digital yuan to stimulate its pandemic-hit economy and use of the digital currency

US Senator Mark Rubio says companies marketing surveillance technologies developed in China should not be allowed near critical US infrastructure, such as a Florida rail line

The move comes amid reports the government faces a cash shortfall of up to 6 trillion yuan (nearly $900 billion) because of the plunge in land sales and other tax revenue

Heads of Australia's top power producer said they would step over an unpopular plan to split the group in two. The news is a triumph for climate activist and billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes