Stocks in China suffered their biggest fall in seven weeks, while Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and most of Southeast Asia also declined. Indian markets, however, enjoyed a small rise.

China's draft contains 23 targets geared towards protecting 30% of land and coastal and marine areas worldwide by 2030

The government's five-year tax plan, once unthinkable in pacifist Japan, would make the country the world's third-biggest military spender after the United States and China

The system has already been used by Russia following the imposition of sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine war

The US has added dozens of firms to its trade blacklist in a bid to curb China's military, human rights abuses, and block suppliers of the Russian military

US regulators say American auditors have got the green light to inspect the books of US-listed firms in China for the first time, after trial inspections in Hong Kong several months ago

Researchers in Australia have found that sound waves help unlock more hydrogen when electrolysis is performed on water molecules - a discovery that could help reduce the cost of green hydrogen

The decision signals a degree of renewed cooperation between the world's two largest economies which are locked in a heated trade and technology war

YMTC is likely to be added to the US Commerce Department's 'Entity List', which bars American firms from selling technology to companies unless they get an export licence, sources have said

Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council says it will fund research on laser-plasma interactions and magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas, following US discovery

The development means that Chinese tech giant Alibaba will not be able to buy Arm’s latest Neoverse V series, as its advanced capacity is blocked by US and UK export controls

"American chip manufacturers have no problem with China as a customer," ASML CEO Peter Wennink said