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Export opportunity: China made 40 masks for every person in the world

Chinese firms also exported almost 100 billion-yuan worth of other personal protective equipment

Upbeat about future, Xi says time on China's side as turmoil grips US

The Chinese leader told a gathering of provincial and ministerial-level officials Monday that he saw "opportunities in general outweighing challenges"

Covid-19: Sinovac vaccine shows 78% efficacy in Brazil after data confusion

The protection rate, confirmed by Sao Paulo state officials, was derived from Sinovac's most advanced final-phase trials in Brazil involving about 13,000 participants

Apple users end 2020 by spending $1.8-bn on apps, most of it on games

New Year's Day set a single-day spending record of $540 million on the App Store, up from $386 million on that day in 2020

World's super-rich families bet on hedge funds in economic upheaval: Survey

More than a third of 185 investment firms for wealthy clans plan to boost allocations amid the pandemic

Philips NV said to shortlist Asian cos in bid for $4 billion appliance unit

Philips invited Chinese buyout firm CDH Investments and domestic appliance maker TCL Technology Group Corp. to lodge second-round offers,

China condemns former high-flying finance executive to death

A slew of officials have been caught up in President Xi's dragnet

Ultra-low interest rates to stay: A 2021 guide for global central banks

China, India, Russia and Mexico are among those predicted to cut their benchmarks even further. Only Argentina and Nigeria are forecast to raise rates

Heathrow to resume paying small dividend to shareholders from 2022

Heathrow said it would not pay dividends this year or next in return for leniency from its shareholders in a submission to the Civil Aviation Authority

India hopes for resuming Iran oil imports as Biden presidency nears

India halted its imports from Iran, previously its third-largest oil supplier, in mid-2019 after the expiration of US exemptions.

China goes ahead with hydrogen-powered cars, defying Elon Musk's warnings

In a 15-year plan for new-energy vehicles released on Nov. 2, China's State Council said the country will focus on building the fuel-cell supply chain and developing hydrogen-powered trucks and buses

Xi cracks the whip on everything to strengthen party grip on China

And right now they revolve around the convergence of technology, finance and Hong Kong

China looks to 'punish' Australia: Lobsters, wine and coal become targets

China's blacklist -- delivered verbally to commodities traders -- includes coal, barley, copper, sugar, timber, wine and lobster

China warns Jack Ma, Ant Group on rapid expansion citing regulatory risks

Ant has faced censure in Chinese state media after Ma last month criticized local and global regulators for stifling innovation

Jack Ma summoned by China's regulators on eve of Ant Group debut

China has been tightening rules and imposing capital demands on the sprawling financial operations of conglomerates such as Ant in an attempt to curb risks to its $49 trillion financial industry

Alibaba's secret three-year experiment to modernise China's old factories

Alibaba claims it is able to cut order lead times by 75% with its solutions

Car sales in China shine as rest of the world reels from coronavirus

Sales of sedans, SUVs, minivans and multipurpose vehicles jumped 7.4 per cent in September from a year earlier to 1.94 million units

Chinese aircraft breach Taiwan airspace; raise risk of clash in the region

People's Liberation Army aircraft repeatedly breached the median line between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland last week, in the latest of a series of military exercises in the area

First into the coronavirus slump, China is proving the fastest out

An industry-powered rebound is pushing the Asian nation out of the historic first-quarter slump and toward the prospect of being the only major economy to expand this year

Chartered planes, costly tickets: How world is beating flight restrictions

The flight paralysis underscores how deep and lasting the pandemic's damage is proving to be