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China ready to cooperate with Russia to ease Middle East tension, foreign minister says

Move comes ahead of a UN Security Council vote next week on a Bahraini resolution to protect commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz

The Shanghai Municipal History Museum at the base of the Oriental Pearl Tower, a tribute to modernity built in the 1990s, celebrates the city as a melting pot.

‘City of parasites’ or ‘glamorous metropolis’? China’s cosmopolitan contradiction

Some of Shanghai’s Art Deco architectural jewels have survived, helped by a growing recognition of their value as an important part of the city’s unique character

Starting May, all drones must be registered with real names, linking equipment to official IDs or cellphone numbers.

China built the world’s drone industry. Now it’s locking down the skies

New regulations are tightening rules for recreational and civilian operators

Consumer services such as retail and catering remain in contraction.

China services gauge slows after boost from new year holiday

[BEIJING] China’s services activity expanded at a weaker pace in March, a private survey showed, pointing to sluggish consumer demand after a lift from a long national holiday the previous month.

The bill would also introduce new controls that affect both foreign and US firms, such as Applied Materials.   

US lawmakers propose crackdown on chip tool sales to China

[HONG KONG] US lawmakers unveiled legislation that seeks to crack down on exports of chipmaking tools to China, especially from allies including the Netherlands and Japan, in a bipartisan effort to he...

China’s property downturn, now in its fifth year, has been marked by a wave of developer defaults, falling home prices and a prolonged slump in sales.

China’s property slump far from over despite embattled developer Country Garden’s return to profit

Sector continues to grapple with uneven price recoveries, a supply glut and weak homebuyer confidence

The People’s Bank of China has stressed that the market should read its policy signals from the level of interest rates instead of the amount of liquidity it injects.

China drains cash from economy in rare move during oil shock

The central bank withdraws a total of 890 billion yuan worth of liquidity via short-term open market operations in March

Chinese independent refiners have been under pressure since the start of war, given their reliance on heavily discounted sanctioned oil from Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

China tells private refiners to keep up fuel output at all costs

Any refineries that cut run rates and produce lower volumes will have their oil import quotas cut accordingly for the coming years

Despite the valuation drag from China, the group raised S$6.5 billion in total equity in FY2025, nearly doubling the S$3.3 billion raised in FY2024.

CapitaLand Investment to speed up divestments, capital recycling in China portfolio

Market softness in China triggers higher revaluation losses in FY2025