China will give nearly 1 trillion yuan ($157 billion) in tax rebates to domestic small firms to shore up economic stability, state media CCTV quoted a cabinet meeting as saying on Monday.

A China Eastern Airlines passenger jet with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on Monday on a flight from Kunming to Guangzhou, China's Civil Aviation Administration said

Taiwan's export orders leapt 21.1% from a year earlier to $51.56 billion last month on sustained technology demand

Shipments of smartphones within China fell 31.8% year-on-year to 14.5 million handsets in February, the China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT) reported on Monday.

Volkswagen China said on Monday it will form joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt and Tsingshan Group to secure nickel and cobalt supplies, to control battery costs as material prices soar

Shares of embattled property developer China Evergrande Group were suspended from trading on Monday, ahead of a major repayment due on Wednesday

Major Apple supplier said in a statement it has "basically resumed normal work order and production operations" in Shenzhen

The suspension is the second of its kind for Bing since December, and arrives amid an ongoing crackdown on technology platforms and algorithms from Beijing

Arrivals of Saudi crude totalled 14.61 million tonnes in January-February, equivalent to 1.81 million barrels per day (bpd), down from 1.86 million bpd a year earlier, data showed

Fortior Technology, Suzhou Delphi Laser and CellWise Microelectronics will be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's sci-tech innovation board, commonly known as STAR

A planned global minimum corporate tax of 15 per cent is a headache for the two Asian financial hubs, whose attraction owes much to their relatively low rates

Both exchanges spent last year preparing new rules to encourage SPAC listings after seeing hundreds of such flotations in the US and worrying that Asian firms would be lured away to list in New York