Nio and a clutch of other Chinese carmakers have started selling their electric vehicles in Europe, hoping that their 'modern tech' can gain them a foothold in a notoriously tough market.

State planner calls on railways and local officials to rush vital coal supplies to utilities, as industrial output in the northeast has been crippled by power cuts and supplies for winter are low.

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CNN says it withdrew its Facebook page after a court ruled publishers can be liable for defamatory public remarks on such posts and the social media giant refused to help curb comments

Kishida won a run-off against vaccine minister Taro Kono. The former banker is set to become prime minister on Monday, but he will have just 4-5 weeks before he faces an election.

State planning agency reassures residents and businesses in areas hit by shortages that it and local officials are closely monitoring regional coal supplies and use

But the crisis will hit provincial governments and the economy – so China's era of high rates of GDP growth may be over, ADB's Asakawa says

Anti-competition watchdog calls for regulations on use of internet data to sell ads, claiming Google's dominance in the sector hurts publishers, advertisers and consumers

Goldman Sachs says China faces "significant downside pressures" from energy shortages and has cut the country’s economic growth forecast for 2021 to 7.8%, from 8.2%.

Factory output in August was the slowest since July 2020, cutting profits at industrial plants, which face high commodity prices, Covid-19 outbreaks, part shortages and now a power crisis.

Restrictions on residential power use have been imposed in some provinces to ensure China meets its pledge to cut carbon emissions after only a third were found to have met targets in the first half of 2021

Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob tables a new plan that boosts infrastructure spending and commits KL to a carbon tax, plus no more coal power plants