China's Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers' index data fell to negative territory, while Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam also saw factory activity contract

The deals follow the introduction of the US's Inflation Reduction Act, designed to wean the US off the Chinese supply chain for electric vehicles

Italy signed up to the BRI four years ago under a previous government, becoming the only major Western country to have taken such a step

Once an illustrious Chinese technology giant, Ant is emerging from a near three-year-long regulatory crackdown that started with the shelving of its planned mega listing in 2020

Sukbae Lee, one of the scientists that the alleged superconductor LK-99 is named after, said the claims were in the process of being peer-reviewed

Analysts say the price tag on VinFast's planned merger is not realistic given that the EV-maker continues to burn cash and is in very early stages of its US business

The 500,000-square-foot campus, set to be built in the tech hub of Bengaluru, will be the US chipmaker's largest in the world

The unprecedented oversupply of commodity chips has lingered since last year, and added to woes of an industry that was battling a Covid-induced shortage until the first half of 2022

China has repeatedly denied sending military equipment to Russia since Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

Frugality is becoming endemic in China as financial insecurity forces the country's white collar workforce to spend less and save more

Three scientists say they were able to produce a superconductor, dubbed LK-99, via a modified form of lead apatite, that 'conducts power at any temperature below 127C without pressure chambers', but experts are sceptical

Together, the unusual coalition of competitors, aims to roll out 30,000 chargers in North America, which would be significantly higher than Tesla's fast-chargers