VW and automaker FAW Group could "buy" a platform of EV technologies from Leapmotor, according to the state-backed news-site. Meanwhile, BYD is facing a tax probe in India.

The world's largest crypto exchange withdrew from mainland China in 2017 during a regulatory crackdown, but the country is allegedly still the biggest source of its trading, a new report says

More than 1,400 funds were deregistered early in the year, due to rules on private funds' operational irregularities, such as incorrect or incomplete information disclosure

A spokesperson for China’s Defence ministry said the US must stop all forms of “military collusion” with Taiwan, saying Taiwan is a core Chinese interest that must not be crossed.

China's Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers' index data fell to negative territory, while Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam also saw factory activity contract

The deals follow the introduction of the US's Inflation Reduction Act, designed to wean the US off the Chinese supply chain for electric vehicles

Italy signed up to the BRI four years ago under a previous government, becoming the only major Western country to have taken such a step

Analysts say the price tag on VinFast's planned merger is not realistic given that the EV-maker continues to burn cash and is in very early stages of its US business

China has repeatedly denied sending military equipment to Russia since Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

Three scientists say they were able to produce a superconductor, dubbed LK-99, via a modified form of lead apatite, that 'conducts power at any temperature below 127C without pressure chambers', but experts are sceptical

Together, the unusual coalition of competitors, aims to roll out 30,000 chargers in North America, which would be significantly higher than Tesla's fast-chargers

Obscure firms have shipped large cargoes of Russian oil this year, with crude often changing hands at sea and carried in old Liberian-flagged vessels, en-route to China and India