Officials from Beijing reportedly told property tycoons in Hong Kong to do more to ease the city’s chronic housing shortage. This has amplified the real estate crisis caused by Evergrande's debt woes. It has also hit China's demand for steel.

Shares of Sunac, China's fourth-largest property developer, dropped more than 10%, while state-backed Greentown China shed almost 7%.

Former World Bank leader Kristalina Georgieva applied "undue pressure" on staff to boost China's ranking in the bank's 'Doing Business 2018' report, an investigation found. She disputes the findings.

Japanese leaders say trade group would need to assess if China can meet its 'extremely high standards', while China's state media claims the move would put 'overwhelming pressure' on the US to rejoin the trade pact

The plight of unpaid contractors has thrown a spotlight on the extensive use of commercial paper in China's property sector. Developers favour it as they prefer to not pay upfront and it doesn't count as interest-bearing debt.

Xpeng Heitech's model will be able to drive on road, allegedly over 600 kilometres (370 miles) on a single charge, but it is not known yet how far they will be able to fly

Liuzhou-based SGMW, GM's venture with partners SAIC Motor and Guangxi Automobile, says it's been developing its own auto computing chips for the past three years

China Minseng is one of 128 banks and 121 other institutions who loaned funds to Evergrande up till last year, so any collapse or sell-off of the company's assets could be felt far and wide

Hengda Real Estate Group, the main arm of Evergrande, sought to suspend trading of its onshore corporate bonds as it battles its liquidity crisis; later, guards took away some protesters demanding the return of their investments at the company's head office

Internet giant says it provides huge benefits for South Koreans through its Play Store, its search engine service, and productivity apps such as Google Docs

China Automotive Engineering Research Institute says it has developed a system to analyse the path of data transmission by using a detection device to monitor uploaded data and data gathered from vehicles

Autonomous driving startup has raised the cash from investors to expand its test fleet and develop technologies including self-driving trucks