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Emerging-market stocks erase all their 2021's gains as china slumps

Emerging-market stocks, once the barometer for optimism on global growth, have given up a 12 per cent advance since February

Olympics: China's Yang Qian, Yang Haoran win mixed team air rifle gold

China's pair of Yang Qian/Yang Haoran on Tuesday won a gold medal in the 10m mixed air rifle event here at the Asaka Shooting Range in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics

China clinches 6th Olympic gold in women's synchronised 10m platform

Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi stormed to a resounding victory in the women's synchronised 10m platform at Tokyo 2020 on Tuesday, extending China's perfect record in the event since the 2000 Olympics

Asian stock markets decline to seven-month low amid China jitters

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.97% to its lowest level since December, having slid 2.45% the previous day.

China's net gold imports via Hong Kong rebound in June, jumps nearly 42%

Net gold imports via Hong Kong to China, the world's top consumer of the metal, stood at 30.887 tonnes in June compared with 21.781 tonnes in May, the data showed.

Tokyo Olympics: Sharath takes a game off great Ma Long before bowing out

Sharath Kamal took a game off the legendary Ma Long, the reigning Olympic and world champion, before making a third round exit from the table tennis competition at the Tokyo Games here on Tuesday

China's industrial profit growth slows in June on high raw material prices

Industrial firms' profits rose 20% year-on-year in June to 791.8 billion yuan ($122.27 billion), data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday, after a 36.4% increase in May.

Chinese mainland reports 31 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases

The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 31 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, all in Jiangsu Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.

Chinese tutoring firms could spin-off units, boost non-academic tutoring

Battered by a regulatory crackdown, China's multi-billion dollar private tutoring sector could seek to separate its business segments and bulk up non-academic tutoring as it tries to soften the blow

Meituan plunges 15% after China issues food platform regulations

The government posted a notice Monday asking meal delivery operators to respect the rights of delivery staff

China attacks US at bilateral talks; hands over list of demands

Striking an aggressive stance at the face-to-face talks with the US, China on Monday for the first time handed down to Washington a list of demands and remedial actions to be taken by the Biden administration to end the "stalemate" in bilateral ties. Talks between Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng and US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to improve the relations got off on a rough note at the northeastern Chinese port city of Tianjin, with Xie launching a blistering attack on Washington, accusing it of being the "owner of coercive diplomacy". Sherman, the No. 2 diplomat of the US, is the highest-ranking American official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office six months ago. She started her meetings with Xie, who is in-charge of the US-China relations, and is due to hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a resort hotel in Tianjin. Besides launching a well-publicised scathing attack on the US, accusing it of "bullying" other countries with "migh

China crackdown on tech firms make Hong Kong Index world's biggest loser

Beijing's bold moves to rein in nation's powerful tech firms such as Jack Ma's Ant Group Co., Didi Global Inc. have sent global investors fleeing on concerns over China's tighter grips on data

China education crackdown rocks investors: 'Everybody's in the crosshairs'

With losses in Chinese tech and education stocks now exceeding $1 trillion since February, the questions reverberating across trading desks from Shanghai to New York

Amid crackdown, China education tycoon loses $15 bn as shares fall 98%

On Saturday, China released new regulations that ban companies that teach school curriculums from making profits, raising capital or going public

China blames US for 'stalemate' in relations, as talks begin

China blamed the US for what it called a stalemate in bilateral relations as high-level face-to-face talks began Monday in the Chinese city of Tianjin. Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng urged the US to change its highly misguided mindset and dangerous policy, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The China-US relationship is in a stalemate because some Americans portray China as an imagined enemy, Xinhua quoted Xie as telling US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. America's No. 2 diplomat is discussing the fraught relationship between the countries in separate meetings with Xie, who is in charge of US-China relations, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a closed-off resort hotel in the city of Tianjin. Sherman is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office six months ago. Relations between the countries deteriorated sharply under his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the two sides remain at odds over a host of issues including technology, .

Chinese mainland reports 40 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases

The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 40 new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, including 39 in Jiangsu and one in Liaoning, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.

Senior US diplomat Wendy Sherman in China for talks on fraught ties

America's No. 2 diplomat has arrived in China to discuss the fraught relationship between the countries on Monday with two top Foreign Ministry officials.

China outlaws for-profit school tutoring in a sweeping overhaul

Beijing on Saturday published a plethora of regulations that together threaten to up-end the sector and jeopardise billions of dollars in foreign investment

Chinese regulator orders Tencent to give up exclusive music licensing

Meanwhile, experts believe that this development is another example of Beijing's crackdown on influential IT giants

As Blinken heads to India, his deputy to 'represent US' in China talks

On Monday,Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be on his way to India, his deputy, Wendy Sherman, will be in China representing interests of US, its allies during talks with Beijing's diplomats