Consumers tightened their purse strings, and business activity slowed amid China's pursuit of its "zero-Covid" strategy to stamp out infections

China's central bank oversaw the tiniest daily cash infusion since January 2021, with just 2 billion yuan ($296 million) added through seven-day reverse repos on Wednesday

Data showed factory profits grew 0.8% compared with a year earlier, rebounding from a 6.5% decline in May, according to the National Bureau of Statistics

This month US President President Joe Biden landed in the region, while India's Adani Ports and Israeli partner Gadot agreed to buy Haifa port for 4.1 billion shekels ($1.18 billion).

The leaders said they would increase trade and economic cooperation, especially in agriculture. Jakarta is trying to increase exports while Beijing has focused on food security

Wuhan's district of Jiangxia, with over 900,000 residents, said its main urban areas must enter a three-day restriction from Wednesday

Rising concern about consumer and business confidence in China - as strict curbs aimed at stamping out Covid-19 undercut a return to prosperity - have hampered growth

The developer will issue 870 million new shares, or 3.6% of the enlarged share capital, at HK$3.25 each, to professional and institutional investors in the share sale

Water would be moved from the Three Gorges Dam to the Han River via a 1,400km open canal, the South China Morning Post reported, with the aim of boosting food production by some 540 tonnes.

At least 21 tonnes of debris may fall into low orbit, said Astronomer Jonathon McDowell, which means an uncontrolled plummet back down to Earth in an unpredictable location

Refiners from India, Dubai and other Chinese state oil firms have been outbidding Asia's biggest oil refiner in purchases of Russian oil this month, market traders say

The AC352 is the locally made variant of the Airbus H175, approved under a joint production agreement, but the H175 has yet to win approval from China's civil aviation body