China’s oil champion prepares Western retreat over sanctions fear
China’s top offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd. (0883.HK) is preparing to exit its operations in Britain, Canada and the United States, because of concerns in Beijing the ...
China’s trade with Russia slows but still beats overall growth
China’s overall trade with Russia rose over 12 per cent in March from a year earlier, slowing from February but still outpacing the growth in China’s total imports and ...
Some in Shanghai leave home for first time in two weeks, US state reimposes mask mandate
Some residents of Shanghai stepped out of their homes for the first time in more than two weeks on Tuesday, as the city took tentative steps towards easing a COVID-19 ...
Shanghai residents question human cost of China’s Covid quarantines
Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai’s Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure that she was getting round-the-clock care at the city’s largest such centre.
That ...
Early Warning Brief: China’s contorted response to Russia sanctions
By Alicia Garcia-Herrero
The unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine will devastate its economy, but the extent of the severity partially depends on ...
China state refiners shun new Russian oil trades, teapots fly under radar
China’s state refiners are honouring existing Russian oil contracts but avoiding new ones despite steep discounts, heeding Beijing’s call for caution as western sanctions mount against Russia over ...
Russia turns to China for microchips for in-demand domestic bank cards
Russia is turning to microchip manufacturers in China to circumvent western sanctions which have boosted demand for bank cards linked to the Mir payment system, an executive with the domestic ...
Shanghai scrambles to secure food supplies as Covid lockdown hits
Residents in the major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai, with 26 million under lockdown, scrambled to secure food on Wednesday, with supermarkets shut and deliveries restricted amid another citywide Covid-19 testing ...
Shanghai lockdown deepens after new surge in asymptomatic Covid cases
The major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai extended restrictions on transportation on Tuesday after a day of intensive city-wide testing saw new Covid -19 cases surge to more than 13,000, with ...
Russia, China woes risk worst EM corporate default wave since financial crash
JPMorgan has warned that the combination of Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s ongoing property crash could see the worst wave of corporate defaults since the global financial ...
Coronavirus: Shanghai separates Covid-positive children from parents in virus fight
By Brenda Goh and Engen Tham
Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on ...
As Shanghai expands COVID lockdown, life on hold in city of 26 million
China’s commercial hub of Shanghai ground to halt on Friday after the government locked down most of the city’s 26 million residents to stop the spread of COVID-19, even ...
In China’s Wall Street, bankers and traders sleep in offices to beat Shanghai COVID lockdown
More than 20,000 bankers, traders and other workers are bedding down in office towers in Shanghai’s Lujiazui district as they bid to keep China’s giant financial hub ticking over ...
China’s Sinopec pauses Russia projects, Beijing wary of sanctions
China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as ...
One of two black boxes found from crashed China Eastern jet (Update)
Chinese searchers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator ...
‘Refuse quarantine!’: frustrations mount as China replays Covid controls
In footage shared on social media last week, a crowd of people in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang bang against the windows of a clothing market as they shout ...
China searches for victims, flight recorders after first plane crash in 12 years (Video)
Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS jet that crashed a day ...
Chinese Boeing jet crashes in mountains with 132 on board, no sign of survivors (Update 4)
A China Eastern Airlines 600115.SS Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. ...
Pressed to choose sides on Ukraine, China trade favors the West (Updated)
US President Joe Biden’s warning of “consequences” for any aid China may give to Russia’s Ukraine war effort aims to force Chinese President Xi Jinping to choose a ...
China reports first Covid deaths in over a year
Mainland China reported its first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year on Saturday, according to a post on the National Health Commission’s website that said two people died ...
Xi says improper handling of Taiwan issues will hit China-U.S. ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden on Friday that the Taiwan issue needs to be handled properly to avoid a negative impact on Sino-U.S. ...
China sails carrier through Taiwan Strait hours before Biden-Xi call
China sailed its aircraft carrier Shandong through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday, shadowed by a U.S. destroyer, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, just ...
Biden and Xi set to clash over Putin’s war
U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that Beijing will pay a price if it supports Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, ...
China says Taiwan ‘taking advantage’ of Ukraine as island sends more aid
China’s government on Wednesday lambasted Taiwan’s humanitarian aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia as “taking advantage of other’s difficulties” after the island announced it was sending ...