A slowdown in Chinese growth and Covid-19 outbreaks have taken a toll on consumer spending. Revenue was 27.23bn yuan ($4.29bn) in the 4th quarter, below estimates of 30.10bn yuan

China will give nearly 1 trillion yuan ($157 billion) in tax rebates to domestic small firms to shore up economic stability, state media CCTV quoted a cabinet meeting as saying on Monday.

The Financial Stability Board is closely scrutinising the use of cryptoassets during the war in Ukraine after concerns they could be used to evade Western sanctions on Russia

A China Eastern Airlines passenger jet with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on Monday on a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou, China's Civil Aviation Administration said

Taiwan's export orders leapt 21.1% from a year earlier to $51.56 billion last month on sustained technology demand

Shipments of smartphones within China fell 31.8% year-on-year to 14.5 million handsets in February, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) reported on Monday.

Volkswagen China said on Monday it will form joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt and Tsingshan Group to secure nickel and cobalt supplies, to control battery costs as material prices soar

Shares of embattled property developer China Evergrande Group were suspended from trading on Monday, ahead of a major repayment due on Wednesday

China is allowing Apple supplier Foxconn's Shenzhen operations and construction sites in Shanghai to resume work on condition that employees live and work in a bubble to fight Covid-19

Moscow and Kyiv both stressed new found scope for compromise as talks were set to resume three weeks after a Russian assault that has failed to topple Ukraine's government

The Hang Seng jumped 9% to above the 20,000 mark with its Tech Index logging its biggest daily gain of 22%, recovering most of its recent losses

Tens of millions of citizens are locked down in cities in the north and south of China, raising concern over the cost of the 'zero Covid' policy, which many say is expensive and disruptive