COMAC’s narrow-body passenger airliner took to the skies in Singapore as the Chinese outfit ramps up its bid to take on Boeing and Airbus

The European Union has opened a formal investigation into the video-sharing platform over possible online content breaches

China’s markets enjoyed a post-holiday boost though the picture was messy elsewhere with relief from high interest rates still looking some way off

A United Nations report is said to show that attacks on cryptocurrency-related companies helped development of dictatorship’s weapons programme

An underwhelming end to the year of the rabbit saw Hong Kong’s benchmark fall back while Tokyo’s main bourse advanced again

An online watchdog’s report named public relations firm Hamai as being behind the websites which attack China’s critics and share conspiracy theories

Shares in the company have dropped 18% over the last month as chipmakers continue to struggle to gain traction after last year’s slump

Tokyo’s benchmark index continued its unassailable rise, boosted by BOJ’s signal on tightening, while Hong Kong was the region’s outlier

Exports have helped drive subsidised Chinese automakers' growth but they are now seeing pushback from US and European governments

The figures are for the quarter that saw Beijing fining the group $984 million for violating consumer protection and corporate governance laws

Increased competition at home and abroad in the electric vehicle sector, particularly from China, has piled the pressure on Elon Musk’s firm

Chinese investors were still in buoyant mood after Beijing’s policy boosts but longer term uncertainty also cast a shadow