The e-commerce giant has been trimming staff to boost efficiency but it plans to hire nearly 6,000 university graduates this year, its CEO said.

Authorities are looking into the death of the deputy head of the military's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology after his body was found in a hotel

Links are most needed during times of tension, analysts say, as Chinese warships, jets and drones take part in live-fire drills around Taiwan and powerful US vessels lie east of Taiwan.

Chinese authorities on Saturday imposed a Covid lockdown in Sanya, a holiday resort in the south of Hainan Island, and shut its public transport system.

Beijing separately announced that it would personally sanction Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family in response to her "vicious" and "provocative" actions.

Beijing described the US Speaker's visit to Taiwan this week as "gross interference in China's internal affairs" that "seriously tramples on the one-China principle"

Sliding values of stocks held by SoftBank's Vision Fund suggest more bad news when CEO Masayoshi Son reports first-quarter earnings next week

Of 132 IPOs and secondary listings on the city's stock exchange since the start of 2021, which raised some $47.6 billion, 111 are currently trading in the red, new data has shown

India's top rice-producing states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh have recorded a monsoon rainfall deficit of as much as 45% so far this season

Economists had predicted the Reserve Bank of India would hike the repo rate by 25 or 50 basis points, given retail inflation hit 7% in June.

The dollar was unable to recoup losses after it slid 0.68% over night, as investors remained on the sidelines awaiting US jobs data

China was the top buyer of US agricultural and related products in the first half of this year, according to US Census Bureau data