Prices in the world's most unaffordable housing market climbed 0.5% in April from the earlier month, compared with a revised 0.6% fall in March, official data showed.

Auto sales have slowed, gamers are purchasing fewer consoles and the Chinese are hesitant to replace older smartphones, TVs, laptops as covid curbs weaken spending power and render more people jobless.

The firm had raised $40 million in its previous round, a year earlier. The cryptocurrency lender and asset manager is now valued at $2 billion.

Profit fell 8.5% from a year ago as margins shrank and factory activity stalled, the statistics bureau said on Friday, plunging from a 12% gain in March

Even for shipments arriving in July, industrial consumers are not placing orders, a Chinese trader said, as gas use has plunged due to the Covid-19 resurgence and weak manufacturing

Few Chinese farm managers have experience with the necessary intensive data collection, but state-led endeavours hope to breed a self-sustaining herd

Ranil Wickremesinghe said a Chinese loan was being finalised even as his government negotiates a multi-billion-dollar International Monetary Fund bailout

Republican-sponsored bill would ban US app stores from supporting apps that enable payment with China's digital yuan.

The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.

Covid lockdowns in China lifted Alibaba's earnings, thanks to surging demand for cloud services as millions of citizens work from home and shop online

Curbs in China to contain the spread of Covid-19 appeared to boost demand for Baidu's cloud services and AI products, helping the group record revenue that topped estimates

China's economy will be slow to recover, despite Shanghai, a city of 25 million people, reporting on Thursday that it had 338 new locally transmitted infections for May 25, the lowest since mid-March