The deal between Standard Chartered bank and UK-based start-up UNDO could open up a new path to financing for the carbon removals industry

Washington and Brussels are set to disregard repeated ‘warnings’ and appeals from Beijing to reverse course on their planned steep tariff hikes on China-made electric vehicles

The Biden administration said on Friday it will move to curb the flood of cheap Chinese goods pouring into the US under a rule known as the 'de minimis' threshold

National securities regulator rebukes PwC Zhong Tian LLP, saying it helped cover up and "even condone" a huge $78-billion fraud in audits of property giant

Group founder was transferred to a centre in Shenzhen a few months ago to allow him to easily communicate with Evergrande executives

Worsening geopolitical ties between Beijing and the West, along with the spiralling economic conditions in China have been the biggest drivers of the drop in business sentiment

The US is pressing the Korean government to ensure Samsung and SK Hynix restrict sales of their high-bandwidth memory chips to China

The State Department said in June Cambodian government officials were complicit in trafficking for criminal activities and that some owned facilities used by scam operators

Sales of EVs and plug-in hybrids were up 20% in August over last year – a fair rise given sales in Europe were the worst since early 2023

A top US scientist says the world is "miles from where we should be" on curbing methane emissions. Far greater funds and activity is needed to reduce emissions, which he said were "accelerating".

In return, Russia was helping China develop military technologies such as submarines, aeronautics missiles, a top US official said

Korean engineers accused of using Samsung chip tech to make 20nm memory chips at a plant in southern China. The $3.2bn case has led to calls for tougher penalties for theft of 'critical tech'