Day: March 20, 2023

U.S. officials said current sanctions on China’s new defense chief, Li Shangfu, will not prevent him from conducting official meetings with his American counterparts, nor is the U.S. government considering issuing an exemption for or waiving Li’s sanc...

The International Monetary Fund has approved Sri Lanka's request for a $2.9 billion bailout, the country's president said, raising hopes for an easing of the island nation's dire economic crisis.The IMF's board also confirmed on Monday it has signed o...

Hong Kong and its civil society environment have been downgraded by an international rights group nearly three years since China imposed a national security law on the city.CIVICUS Monitor, a global research group that tracks and rates fundamental fre...

China's President Xi Jinping has said that Beijing will work with Russia to "promote a multi-polar world."On his ninth trip to Russia since being first elected as president in 2013, Xi on Monday said: "China will work with Russia to uphold true multil...

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a three-day visit to Moscow Monday seen as a rare show of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin, increasingly isolated over his war on Ukraine. The visit also comes at a time when Russia and China are eager t...

An Australian former soldier has been arrested over allegations that he murdered a man while deployed in Afghanistan.The arrest on Monday comes more than two years after a damning internal investigation found 39 civilians and prisoners had been "unlaw...

China has announced its first cut in the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves this year to bolster the economic growth momentum after investment stabilized and consumption rebounded in the first two months.The People's Bank of China, the ce...

Daniel Duggan is wanted in the United States on charges including conspiracy to unlawfully export defense services to China and money laundering. Lawyers for the former U.S. marine, accused of helping to train Chinese military pilots, have said they a...

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 165.69 points, or 0.85 percent to open at 19,352.9 points on Monday.Source: Xinhua Finance Agency

The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, was down 0.10 percent to open at 2,291.39 points Monday.The ChiNext Index, together with the Shenzhen Component Index and other indices, reflects the performance of stocks l...

The following are the indices of major stock markets worldwide on Monday.IN ASIAThe Shanghai Composite Index opened at 3,253.93 points, up 3.38 points, or 0.10 percent.The Shenzhen Component Index opened at 11,289.96 points, up 11.91 points, or 0.11 p...