Beijing said it will reduce coal consumption in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by about 10% from 2020 levels by 2025

The Southeast Asian nation is looking to move beyond manufacturing and assembly amid trade tensions between the US and China

The allies say Pyongyang uses cybercrime profits to gather funds for its nuclear and missile programmes

Persistently sluggish demand has raised the spectre of wide-scale deflation amid mounting local government debt and an ailing housing market

The property firm is hoping to decrease its debt by about $6 billion to $7 billion amid a downturn in sales nationwide

Geopolitical tensions are thought to be behind the move which will see Vietnamese contractors involved in development, not just assembly

Japan’s market was in turmoil with bets the Bank of Japan was finally ready to hike rates and a rising yen piling the pressure on equities

The US semiconductor outfit made the prediction as it unveiled two new AI chips as it bids to compete with sector-leader Nvidia

For November alone, bilateral trade between the two nations rose to $21.5 billion, the highest since February 2022 when the Ukraine war began

China and the US have been competing for influence in Vietnam, which agreed a large-scale strategic partnership with Washington in September

The rating agency was reportedly worried over a possible backlash to its announcement targeting employees in Beijing and Shanghai

Investors were playing the waiting game on Thursday, ahead of key jobs data out of the States and looking for signals from the US Fed on rates