Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index tumbled 2.7%, with its tech stocks slipping more than 5%. Mainland Chinese shares also declined, with blue chips falling 1.2%.

China appears have made a key step forward in resolving a longstanding bilateral dispute, but sources say a broader review of work done by China-based auditors is still going on.

The news comes after China's biggest company reported a second straight quarterly sales drop, hit by the economic slowdown and China's regulatory crackdown.

FBI director Christopher Wray told lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday the Chinese government could harness the video-sharing app to influence users or control their devices.

China confirmed this week that a Long March rocket broke up on Saturday and left debris in an orbit close to SpaceX satellites used by Elon Musk's Starlink internet company

Foxconn and its Indonesian parter Indrika Energy is looking to make EV batteries with a Thai firm, possibly the state-run energy giant PTT.

New home prices slumped 1.6% year-on-year, according to NBS data, falling for the sixth consecutive month. That is the biggest annual drop since August 2015

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a formal meeting on Tuesday, which was the first by leaders of the two countries since 2016.

FTX founder and former chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried, said he expanded his business too fast and failed to notice signs of trouble at the exchange

Indonesia's Just Energy Transition Partnership, which was announced by the US, Japan and partners on Tuesday, plans to bring forward Jakarta's peak emissions by seven years to 2030

The EVs of the future — those arriving after 2025 — could shift to significantly cheaper sodium ion or lithium sulfur battery cells

Canadian police say an employee who worked on batteries for Hydro-Quebec's electrification and energy centre 'was a Chinese spy' who relayed tech on electric vehicles to his homeland