China will also open up its international borders on Sunday, with travellers not being forced to quarantine for the first time since 2020

Investors are looking beyond China’s current Covid woes and betting on a post-pandemic economic recovery

Apple Inc’s stock market value dropped sharply on Tuesday following its steep drop last year, leaving it below $2 trillion for the first time since March 2021

Foreigners sold equities worth $57 billion last year on exchanges in Taiwan, India, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia

Investors were pulled in both directions on Wednesday with worries over more US interest rate hikes balanced off by hopes of a post-Covid China recovery

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China’s incoming Foreign Minister Qin Gang – and outgoing US ambassador – vowed to keep lines of communication open

China’s state media were playing down the severity of the Covid picture in China as the World Health Organization urged openness

Investors were upbeat about China’s long-term prospects, banking on it emerging stronger after seeing out the current wave of virus infections

Property prices in 100 Chinese cities fell for the sixth month in a row in December, a private real estate firm survey showed

The combined value of the world's sovereign wealth and public pension funds slumped for the first time in 2022

President Xi Jinping called in his New Year's address for more effort and unity as China enters a "new phase” of its Covid fight

Washington, Brussels and London have all blocked China’s access to advanced Western-made computer chips