BYD is building it first plant in Hungary, while Leapmotor will use a Stellantis factory in Poland, as Chery eyes production in Spain and possibly Italy; Great Wall, SAIC and Dongfeng are also assessing opportunities

Small Chinese banks funding deals with Russia will be discussed at the summit in Italy amid concern China is bolstering "the Russian war machine."

China sat out of the global risk rally after a group of Republican lawmakers said battery companies CATL and Gotion should be banned from shipping goods to the US

Antonio Guterres says a tax on fossil fuel firms – in the oil, gas and coal sectors – would help pay for the fight against global warming

Lawmakers say the US should ban imports from the battery-makers because their supply chains are linked to Xinjiang and 'deeply compromised'

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos are key sites of scam operations, but most ASEAN nations facilitate the trafficking of thousands of people forced to work in horrific enclaves, then help launder the proceeds, report says

China's exports saw yearly growth in May, with a better yuan exchange rate and firms shipping early ahead of tariff increases in foreign markets

Shares across Asia were boosted by advances in the euro ahead of the European Central Bank policy meeting, but pared gains amid caution

TSMC's new chairman has hailed hailed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's $7-trillion plan to create new fabrication plants for artificial intelligence as "too aggressive for me to believe"

The clean energy sector was the biggest driver of China’s economic growth in 2023, contributing 40% of its expansion

Political factors may be involved in the crackdown, which comes as over a billion packages, averaging around $50 in value, are forecast to arrive in the US this year

'Carbon footprint management system' comes amid trade tensions with the EU and countries that may impose carbon border taxes. It will focus first on exports like steel, EVs and batteries