Global PE community "really circumspect about investing" in China. PE-backed M&A in Asia totalled $13.5bn from January to March 19, down 32% from the year earlier, LSEG data showed

Vice Commerce Minister Guo Tingting said "China will fully guarantee national treatment for foreign companies", but did not explain how it would do that

Foreign investment into China fell 19.9% in the the first two months of 2024 from the amount in January-February last year to 215 billion yuan ($30 billion), the Commerce ministry said on Friday

Millions of Japanese are sizing up how to adapt to higher borrowing costs after many years of deflation, when prices, wages and costs changed little

Wu Qing, the infamous 'Broker butcher' now heading China's securities regulator, has begun onsite inspections of mutual funds in a bid to clean up industry management

British insurance giant and asset manager has put off its plan to seek obtain a business licence and halved its staff in China, sources say

Truong My Lan stands accused of fraud worth $20 billion, and her trial is part of a "blazing furnace" anti-bribery campaign by the leader of the ruling Communist Party

There has been an unprecedented rise in sea water temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Global Climate report

BOJ Governor defends move to normalise monetary policy, tells parliament that inflation is gaining momentum; said the central bank will eventually scale down its balance sheet

National regulator has moved to tighten lending to risky borrowers with new rules set to force mergers among half its 31 consumer lenders that lack new standard for required capital

“What we see right now is the unfolding of a slow-motion train accident,” the chief of a European trade lobby in China said

Hundreds expected to attend conference in Washington DC, where researchers hope to attract more backing to avoid falling behind China in the quest to develop a commercially viable reactor