Sentiment remains gloomy among manufacturers as domestic demand is increasingly under siege and external pressures from trade tensions loom large

BOJ decides to raise the overnight call rate to 0.25%. It also unveiled plans to halve monthly bond buying to 3 trillion yen ($19.6bn) by early 2026

The move in August will expand the Foreign Direct Product rule – to bar half a dozen fabs at China's most sophisticated chipmaking firms from receiving exports from many countries

China accounts for 80% of solar module production capacity after years of subsidies that have triggered a collapse in global prices

Hong Kong's benchmark saw the biggest losses in Asia with China's Politburo meeting announcing no new detailed efforts to boost the world's second-biggest economy

Huawei Technologies had received more than $1 billion in government grants last year, plus government procurement contracts worth around $5 billion, according to a new report

The European Union has denied claims by China that its top diplomat Josep Borrell "attached great importance" to a Sino-Brazilian statement on ending the war in Ukraine

Vice Premier injects a sense of urgency, warning citizens that China's industrial future faces fierce foreign competition: "If we stop moving forward, we fall back; if we move forward slowly, we fall back too."

“There is no rethinking at present to support Chinese investments in the country,” Trade Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Firms sign an MoU on building and using ammonia-fuelled vessels owned either by COSCO or both firms to cut emissions while shipping minerals

Officials say exports in July were said to have risen by 19% this month from 2023, while an index for industrial production rose by 11.2%

Hong Kong court on Monday gives giant debt-laden conglomerate nearly six months to  finalise a rejig of its offshore debt, while Evergrande's EV unit may also face bankruptcy proceedings