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The Hong Kong government is set to delay a highly controversial plan to allow extraditions to mainland China, local media report. Chief Executive Carrie Lam has refused to ...

Oil prices steadied on Monday as major producers Saudi Arabia and Russia had yet to agree on extending an output-cutting deal and U.S.-China trade tensions continued to threaten ...

The quantum of investment in the Nigerian economy by Chinese companies has hit $20bn, the President, China Chambers of Commerce in Nigeria, Mr Ye Shuijin, has disclosed. He ...

China is to blame for much of the increase in illegal ozone-depleting substances (ODS) since 2013, according to a study published by the journal Nature on Thursday, with ...

Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Wednesday, banning Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei and ZTE from selling their equipment in the US as he claims they ...

The state of American agriculture is “rapidly deteriorating” into crisis, J.P. Morgan said Tuesday, due to three factors: declining exports, a poor crop of corn and soybeans and ...

China announced that it will increase tariffs imposed on about $60 billion of US goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest escalation of the trade war. The ...

China has vowed to take “necessary countermeasures” after US President Donald Trump escalated his trade war with Beijing; just hours after delegations from the two sides wrapped up ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that China “broke the deal” in the ongoing U.S.-China trade talks. Speaking at a rally in Florida, the president attributed his recent threat ...

Chinese direct investment in the United States dropped 83%  in 2018, pushed down by growing mistrust between the world’s two biggest economies. In a report, the Rhodium Group ...

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that fresh trade tensions between the United States and China were the main threat to the world economy. “Clearly ...

Oil prices fell on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would sharply raise tariffs on Chinese goods this week, risking the derailment of trade talks between ...

Gold steadied on Thursday as weak manufacturing data out of Europe kindled some concerns over global growth, but bullion held near a four-month low, pressured by gains in ...

Amazon has announced that it is closing its online store in China after struggling to gain a foothold in the world’s most populous nation. The US e-commerce giant ...

Volkswagen will use Chinese software developers to help design a global autonomous vehicle architecture thanks to the prevalence of qualified programmers which carmakers are struggling to hire elsewhere, ...

Namibia has become the first African nation to export 21 tonnes of beef to China, world’s largest consumer market. The Southern African country transported 6.5 million tonnes of ...

Oil hit a 2019 high above $69 a barrel on Tuesday on the prospect that more sanctions against Iran and further Venezuelan disruptions could deepen an OPEC-led supply ...

Surveys showed global manufacturing, the lifeblood of many of the world’s economies, was flat in March — the first time it has not fallen since April 2018. “The ...

Turkey’s dollar-denominated sovereign bonds tumbled on Wednesday and the cost of insuring exposure to its debt soared to a 6-1/2 month high as authorities efforts to shore up ...

Gold on Tuesday retreated from the more than 3-week highs touched in the previous session after the dollar rebounded and risk appetite and bond yields recovered, easing nerves ...