Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 46.7 in August from 54.9 in July, its lowest level since the first wave of the Covid pandemic in April 2020
Fumio Kishida is one of four LDP figures seen as potential candidates to succeed Yoshihide Suga, along with Sanae Takaichi, Taro Kono and Shigeru Ishiba
China's plan to launch a new exchange in Beijing hit the shares of Shenzhen's ChiNext board amid fears of greater rivalry
Micronesia will use US funds to lay an undersea cable between two of its four states on part of a route proposed under a previous project that failed to materialise amid geopolitical wrangling
Alibaba, Tencent and Pinduoduo are backing President Xi's call for successful companies to help narrow the country's wealth gap
This is an idea first mentioned by Mao, which President Xi hopes can be achieved by narrowing the huge wealth gap that threatens the country's economic ascent and Communist Party rule
Global Times says the US move to try to block a Chinese takeover is a 'dangerous' precedent that could affect decisions on other mergers and acquisitions
Chinese officials have been tightening scrutiny on the fintech sector, while ByteDance has focused on e-commerce and gaming as its new sources of growth
Officials on Hainan Island are considering setting up an international carbon emissions trading exchange to connect China's national trading scheme with the global market
Company is rushing to raise funds to pay its many lenders and suppliers, while regulators and financial markets fear the crisis could swamp China's banking system
Ant and state firms in Zhejiang province plan to set up a credit-scoring firm to handle the group's data on over 1 billion consumers. The new venture could help revive Ant's suspended IPO
Didi Global will help set up a union for its staff, sources have revealed. This would be a groundbreaking move, as there are few unions in China's tech sector