“To say [Xi’s absence] is extraordinary is an understatement as Chinese leaders never miss highly choreographed events like this,” one China expert said
The deals mania comes as Australia undertakes a critical minerals strategy that envisages major collaborations with investors and global partners to become a renewables superpower
The moves followed reports that South Korea's Star Group Industrial, which supplies magnets to VinFast and Hyundai, is investing $80 million in a new factory in Vietnam
Officials expect "significant" economic impact after Hong Kong said it would join mainland China in banning most Japanese seafood from Thursday, when treated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant will be released into the sea
Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges China to end its "repressive assimilation policies" that force up to a million Tibetan children to leave their families and attend state boarding schools
Markets in Asia rose after a week of declines, with the Hang Seng Index rebounding nearly 1% as beaten down China shares climbed up, while the Nikkei was up by a similar amount
The more than 300-page document mentioned "PRC" 130 times and "China" 222 times, as it outlined risks and uncertainties emanating from the ongoing chip war between Beijing and the West
India’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
US tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
Despite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
The Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.