Consumer protection body in Zhejiang summoned five platforms including Alibaba's Taobao, Pinduoduo and JD.com over live-streaming irregularities during the Singles' Day shopping festival

About 13 million people were ordered to stay home in the city of Xi'an, where a strict lockdown and travel controls were imposed on Wednesday to fight a growing Covid-19 outbreak

China's market regulator said on Wednesday that it had approved the acquisition deal – but with conditions

Chinese property developer said it's likely to default on notes worth $250 million that are due next month, which could trigger payments becoming due on all its public bonds

Authorities have ordered celebrities and live-streamers to report tax-related crimes before 2022, days after China's 'queen of live-streaming' Viya was fined $210 million for tax evasion

Apple supplier Foxconn's plant near Chennai in southern India will remain shut this week following protests sparked by a food poisoning incident, government officials said on Tuesday

Momo is Vietnam's largest e-wallet by users and aims to double that number to 50 million in the next two years. It aims to go public in 2025

Top brands engage live-streamers to help market products on China's top e-commerce platforms, and analysts say it is essential to a brand's retail strategy for the country

The fine on Viya, who once appeared on a stream with US reality TV star Kim Kardashian, far exceeds that of other well-known cases.

China has shortcomings in high-end rare earth product applications and should improve its management of its rare earths quota release, an industry official has said

Asian stocks and oil prices sank Monday on fears about the surge of Omicron coronavirus cases after the future of US President Joe Biden's massive social spending bill was thrown into doubt

M&A activity topped $5 trillion for the first time ever, with volumes rising 63% to $5.63 trillion by December 16, according to Dealogic data, easily passing the $4.42 trillion set in 2007