Dow, the chemicals and plastics group that has just returned to the stock market as an independent company, is hoping for a trade deal between the US and China to “drive momentum” in demand, its chief executive has said. The company, which was spun off from DowDuPont last month, has been hit […]

Hong Kong’s first-quarter growth cooled, official estimates showed, as the former UK colony’s economy was hit by slowing international demand. Gross domestic product for the territory in southeastern China rose 0.5 per cent year on year in the three months to March, according to a forecast from the Census and […]

The central banks of Russia and China helped drive a 7 per cent increase in global gold demand in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the World Gold Council, as they continued efforts to trim their exposure to US dollars. Central banks purchased a total of 145.5 […]

Canadian officials have been told China has suspended export permits for two pork exporters from Quebec, according to Reuters, in a move that could signal an escalation in the diplomatic spat between Ottawa and Beijing. Canada’s agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said to Reuters that department officials had told her two […]

Southeast Asian manufacturing picked up in April, with a leading survey of purchasing managers showing its highest reading in five months, in a sign that the regional slowdown brought on by trade tensions may be moderating.  The Nikkei-Markit manufacturing purchasing managers’ index for Asean countries edged up to 50.4 in […]

A retired CIA operative whose actions are believed to have helped decimate a network of spies working for the US in China pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to spy for the Chinese government. The US Department of Justice said Jerry Lee, 54, a former case officer who had served […]

For “the Netflix of China”, an initial public offering in New York was just a curtainraiser. In the 12 months following the $2.4bn IPO of iQiyi, the Chinese video-streaming platform sold equity-linked financial instruments known as convertible bonds for more than three quarters of that amount. And it is not the […]

For “the Netflix of China”, an initial public offering in New York was just a curtainraiser. In the 12 months following the $2.4bn IPO of iQiyi, the Chinese video-streaming platform sold equity-linked financial instruments known as convertible bonds for more than three quarters of that amount. And it is not the […]

Police are monitoring Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region via a smartphone app that accesses a vast array of personal information — from location data to whether they use WhatsApp — to flag “suspicious” behaviour, according to research by advocacy group Human Rights Watch. The app, used by police to […]

Police are monitoring Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region via a smartphone app that accesses a vast array of personal information — from location data to whether they use WhatsApp — to flag “suspicious” behaviour, according to research by advocacy group Human Rights Watch. The app, used by police to […]