Relations between the two countries have taken a serious downturn since Canberra called for an international probe into the origins of Covid-19 – with trade in beef, coal, barley and wine being especially hit

Nuclear safety authorities dismissed the incident at the southern Guangdong plant as a ‘common phenomenon’ but, whatever happened, its going to be that bit harder now for Beijing to make the case for atomic power to its people. So what actually happened?

The ride-hailing firm is looking to raise up to $10 billion in the US offering that would value the firm at close to $100 billion – and it doesn’t appear to have been put off by Beijing’s tech firms crackdown

Beijing plans to sell off quantities of its preciously-guarded hoards of copper, aluminium and zinc in a bid to cool down the commodities market which has seen raw materials prices soar in the last year. This rarely happens, so why now?

The dollar saw some of its biggest gains since March last year and Asian markets fell after a hawkish US Fed left stocks and bonds bruised

The Hong Kong carrier, looking at a 99.3% fall in passenger numbers compared with pre-pandemic figures, is in talks with the European plane-maker about cutting numbers in the cock-pits

With Beijing’s regulators circling, the TikTok owner’s CEO Zhang Yiming has decided now is the time to let someone else take the lead at one of the world's biggest private tech companies

With factory gate inflation rising at its fastest annual pace in over 12 years last month – due in the main to sky-high commodity prices – Beijing has decided it’s time to act and offer some of its supplies to stabilise the market

The manufacturing powerhouse saw growth slow at the factory gates, retail sales decelerate and investment slide in what turned out to be an underpowered month for the world’s second biggest economy

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo moved a couple of bottles of the famous Cola out of his eyeline at a press conference and wiped $4 billion off the American company’s stock price

The long-mooted Inga project, which Australia’s Fortescue is involved in talks over, could eclipse China's Three Gorges Dam and provide southern Africa with a huge flow of new renewable energy

A Thai court has approved the ailing airline’s $12.9 billion debt makeover proposal as it seeks to recover from years of struggle, made even worse by 2020’s worldwide pandemic