CNOOC has hired JPMorgan to advise it on a potential exit from its US shale gas assets, which could raise $2 billion. It is also in talks for the sale of its Gulf of Mexico assets

James Cameron blockbuster is one of the few foreign films to get access to the Chinese market in recent months

Videos showed a protest on Wednesday by hundreds of workers over pay and conditions at the massive Zhengzhou production facility in central China

China's defence minister met his US counterpart on Tuesday to discuss Taiwan, the South China Sea, as well as crises in Ukraine and the Korean peninsula.

Chinese firms raised $71.2 billion, putting them far ahead of the $17.3 billion raised by US companies' listings and European firms' $16.4 billion from IPOs this year

"We cannot give authoritarian regimes any chance to exploit our vulnerabilities and undermine us," NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said

China's military experts said its new longer-range missiles will help defend itself from nuclear blackmail

A meeting would represent the first high-level military exchange between the countries since Nancy Pelosi's contentious visit to Taiwan

"It was a very happy, polite interaction," Taiwan official Morris Chang said, adding that tensions across the Taiwan Strait were not discussed

Criminals also try to entice people to invest in these IPOs through texting, social media and sometimes even seemingly misdirected messages

Another 13 companies in China, Hong Kong and the UAE have been hit with US sanctions for helping to sell "hundreds of millions of dollars" of Iranian oil and oil products to buyers in East Asia

Asia-Pacific is no one's backyard and should not become an arena for big power contest, the Chinese President said