Stepn lets users buy and trade NFTs and in-game crypto by walking or running in the real world and they then convert in-game earnings to other crypto or cash

The Alibaba stock surge came despite the group declining to provide a forecast for the current fiscal year because Covid-19 risks clouded its outlook

Chinese companies implicated in a Russian-backed oil smuggling and money laundering network to buy Iranian oil will be subject to US sanctions.

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.