Chinese regulators and finance officials submitted a proposal to Cabinet this month to slash the 0.1% stamp duty on domestic stock trading to revive the country's struggling markets
Three years of Covid restrictions have changed Chinese citizens' spending habits, but Beijing faces tough decisions now on how to boost consumption
TSMC has previously blamed a "lack" of skilled workers for the slow pace of the fab's construction and also lobbied to bring more Taiwanese workers to help finish work the site
The Indian mission was accomplished with a budget of about 6.15 billion rupees ($75 million), less than the cost to produce the 2013 Hollywood space thriller "Gravity”
Modest rate cuts and vague promises of support for debt-mired developers have failed to restore sentiment; fund managers say they need to see more state money flowing before they return
The landmark deal, signed when Beijing and Washington established diplomatic ties in 1979, needs to be renewed about every five years and is currently set to expire later this week
Asian markets surge, with Hang Seng climbing 2% and the Nikkei rising by 0.9%, while investors wait for Fed chief's speech at Jackson Hole on Friday
Beijing quietly launched a new initiative to lure elite foreign-educated IT and chip talents to accelerate its tech proficiency, sources and government documents reveal
Workers at dorms on two Country Garden sites in Tianjin, a port city of 14 million people about 135 km (84 miles) southeast of Beijing, complained of months without pay
Shanghai blue chips saw another fall, but the Nikkei, Hang Seng and other key regional indexes all saw gains on Wednesday
The country's lunar spacecraft made a soft landing on the lunar South Pole, days after a similar Russian lander, Luna-25, crashed
The deals mania comes as Australia undertakes a critical minerals strategy that envisages major collaborations with investors and global partners to become a renewables superpower