New law restricts firms from releasing real-time data, which is a big concern for trading companies and logistics managers trying to follow supply chain movements

Residents in Beijing were preparing for a possible nightmare scenario, rushing to buy food, toilet paper and other supplies, as the city's biggest district started testing 3.5m residents.

The Bank of China and Bank of Communications are reportedly set to follow smaller lenders and cut their deposit rate ceilings on Monday

Officials in Beijing are on a "Covid-19 alert" and plan to test parts of the community in the Chinese capital after 15 new cases were found on Saturday, paper says

IMF said talks in Washington on a 'credible and coherent' economic strategy had been fruitful

Local statistics officials said retail sales plummeted by 18.9% in March, while industrial output was also hit.

Toyota-backed tech firm gets a licence to operate 100 vehicles in Guangzhou's Nansha district. Rival groups are also testing self-driving cars in Shenzhen, Changsha and California.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce warns that totalitarian China built bases in the South China Sea after vowing never to do that. US to expedite plan to build an embassy in Honiara

The first train carrying just freight from China to Laos set off from Shenyang in northeastern Liaoning province on Friday for Kunming and then down to Vientiane

State officials say China needs to improve its air quality standards because pollution is still taking a serious toll on citizens' health.

Concern about rate hikes and war in Ukraine spurred investors to withdraw $15.2 billion, the biggest weekly amount since December 15, according to Refinitiv-Lipper data.

Shanghai's long-running Covid lockdown continues while big cities and neighbouring states – Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore – are easing restrictions or set to open up.