The first convoy of 50 trucks carrying wheat left Amritsar after a ceremony attended by Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla

The country's first Post Office Coffee, which was officially opened in Xiamen, is directly operated by the state-owned mail and logistics giant

Financial hub deploys a 'dynamic zero Covid' strategy similar to mainland China's, aiming to eradicate any outbreaks at all costs

Nervousness of possible disruption of exports from key oil producer Russia helps push oil prices to their highest since 2014

Russia is the second largest supplier of crude oil to China and its third biggest gas supplier. It is also a major oil supplier to South Korea, while it also sells coal to Japan, Vietnam and India.

The drop has been seen most in electronic hardware from free-trade agreement partners, the report said, and complaints of routing Chinese goods via Asean states

The shortage of spare parts, especially semiconductors, is affecting production and assembly operations by domestic automobile makers, a report said

Swiss exports of gold to mainland China surged in January to their highest since December 2016, data showed on Thursday. China imported 70,000kg of Swiss gold, up from 14,000kg in December

The company earned less for the gold it produced and was also hit with higher labour and freight costs due to a tight sea freight market

Asia-Pacific is the world’s largest net food and energy importer but it is not monolithic so a spike in food and energy prices would have an uneven impact

Oil recovered some of its more than 2% fall in Asian trade on Thursday after Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine accused government forces in Kyiv of shelling their territory with mortars

The growing trade deficit highlights the world's third-largest economy's vulnerability to soaring commodity costs and slowing demand from China