Corporate loans rose by over 12% in September and nearly 17% in the last two weeks of October, suggesting the start of a new investment cycle despite global slowdown

Beijing is propping up its slowing economy by keeping money rates low. On Monday China's central bank drained 170 billion yuan on a net basis via seven-day reverse repos

Parts of Beijing and Guangzhou and other cities were in semi-lockdown on Monday in a bid to slow the minimize the spread of Covid-19 as cases rise in various areas.

Plans for the new facility in Arizona are not completely finalised but it will produce advanced 3-nanometre chips, founder Morris Chang said on Monday. He plans to attend the launch.

TSMC envoy Morris Chang, who was Taiwan's envoy at the summit in Bangkok, said his warm words with Xi were his own idea and he just offered his "own opinion".

More than 80% of Chinese manufacturers faced labour shortages ranging from hundreds to thousands of workers this year, which ranged from 10% to 30% of their workforce, a survey found

Buying of Shenzhen and Shanghai-listed equities through Hong Kong’s Stock Connect programme rose to $3.8 billion this week, the FT said

The economic fallout of Covid lockdowns in many cities led to many buyers putting off plans to take on debt to buy new homes. That's why experts say a real estate revival is still a way off.

Britain is keen to sign a comprehensive trade pact with New Delhi that would cover 90% of trade tariffs between both countries. No other European country has such a deal yet.

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

Cyber attack on Vanuatu has greatly disrupted government services in the Pacific Island nation over the past two weeks

Kerry wants a plan by April to reform multilateral development banks to unleash "hundreds of billions" of dollars to help vulnerable countries combat and adapt to climate change.