The troubled property giant’s struggles, added to continued pressure from China's crackdowns on its tech firms and casinos, saw the Hang Seng shed more than 2%

The Nikkei fell by more than 2% with traders preoccupied with unfolding events in the United States and the slow post-pandemic global recovery

Concerns over surging prices in the States as well as Biden’s struggle to gain approval for his huge infrastructure plan – and the ongoing Evergrande crisis – brought an air of gloom to the region’s markets

Uncertainty over whether the struggling property giant paid interest on an offshore bond due last week and the absence of any action from Beijing have left traders in limbo

Factory gate inflation in the US soared to over 8% in August while China’s continuing regulatory crackdown saw market heavyweight Alibaba plunge more than 4% after officials ordered sweeping changes to payment app Alipay

• Fears US inflation data could spark Fed reaction and pandemic support cooling • But investors boosted by progress on...

Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance among 20 firms summoned to ministry summit; President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill inches towards approval

Negotiators have revealed China’s approval was the hardest to win for the breakthrough agreement between 130 countries over a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%

Stocks rally as US spending announcement boosts recovery outlook and traders put fears of fiscal stimulus drop-off behind them

President Joe Biden has also withdrawn Trump-era executive orders that looked to ban new downloads of the Tencent-owned apps and ordered a review of alleged security concerns posed by them

President Biden is revoking bans issued by Trump on TikTok and WeChat but broadening a review of software apps from...

Sanctions target new companies involved in surveillance technology used to ‘facilitate repression or serious human rights abuses’ in addition to...