Shopping malls, department stores, and supermarkets will begin resuming in-store operations and allow customers to shop in "an orderly way", while hair salons and vegetable markets will reopen with limited capacity

Commercial hub Shanghai hoped to exit a painful six-week-old lockdown later this month as authorities hoped one last round of tightening would eradicate the last infections in one of the worst Covid outbreaks in China

The action was not only a crime against the company but also ``a crime against American workers,'' the FBI said in a statement.

Officials in Beijing denied rumours of sweeping Shanghai-type curbs, asking people not to panic-buy but to stay at home, while also announcing a fresh round of mass testing.

Widespread lockdowns to rein in Covid-19 brought economic activity to a standstill in China and also sparked runaway inflation across the world

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced revenue of $1.8 billion in first three months ended March 31, a 16.6% rise from the previous quarter

Nissan has shifted its focus from "volume to value", shedding the emphasis on big sales numbers, often at discounts, that it pursued for years

The state-owned enterprise has noticed sharp growth for its medical aesthetics business after the company became the exclusive distributor in China for Letybo, a botox product

Australia's Climate Friendly, majority-owned by private equity firm Adamantem Capital, generates carbon credits from projects that regenerate vegetation or improve soil health

Economic damage from China's current coronavirus outbreak could be more than 10 times the impact from the initial outbreak in Wuhan in 2020, the SCMP said, citing a local economist

Residents in the Chinese economic hub have over the past six weeks had to undergo multiple rounds of self-testing via antigen kits, as well as PCR Covid-19 tests

Disrupted transport links and restrictions on movement have cut battery manufacturing, research house Antaike said, while carmakers have cut or suspended production