China
Bitcoin tumbles on report China to shutter digital currency exchanges
NEW YORK Bitcoin fell sharply on Friday after a report from a Chinese news outlet said China was planning to shut down local crypto-currency exchanges, although analysts said this was just a temporary setback.
Weeks after row over academic articles, China says imported publications must be legal
BEIJING Chinese importers of foreign publications must verify the products are legal, China said on Friday, weeks after a British academic publisher which blocked access to hundreds of scholarly articles in the country reposted the material.
UK publisher rejects new request to block academic articles in China
LONDON/BEIJING Britain's Cambridge University Press has rejected a request from its Chinese state-owned importer to block online access in China to scholarly articles from the American Political Science Review.
Fresh China worries hit Hyundai, suppliers even as plant restarts
SEOUL/SHANGHAI Shares in Hyundai Motor and its suppliers slid on Friday on fresh worries over their position in China after highly critical state newspaper comments, even as the South Korean automaker managed to get a Chinese car plant restarted. | Video
Friday Morning Briefing
An earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico, the U.N. said the number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh has surged and Equifax revealed what could be one of the largest data breaches in the United States.
Macron hurls challenge to Europe - reform or decline
ATHENS Europe risks subjugation to China and the United States unless it becomes more sovereign and democratic, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday in a speech underlining the scale of his ambition to reform the European Union. | Video
Taiwan activist to be tried for subversion in China in 'open' hearing
Beijing China will on Monday put on trial a Taiwanese activist, who disappeared while on a visit to the mainland in March, on suspicion of subverting state power, in what court authorities said would be an open trial.
Sweeping change in China's military points to more firepower for Xi
BEIJING China's military is preparing a sweeping leadership reshuffle, dropping top generals, including two that sources say are under investigation for corruption.
Chinese online insurer ZhongAn wins HK approval for $1 billion IPO: sources
HONG KONG ZhongAn Online Property and Casualty Insurance Co Ltd, China's first internet-only insurer, secured Hong Kong stock exchange approval for its planned initial public offering which could raise more than $1 billion, sources with direct knowledge of the deal said on Friday.
Exiled Chinese tycoon Guo seeking asylum in U.S.
BEIJING Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire who has accused some of the most senior officials of China's Communist Party of corruption, has applied for political asylum in the United States, his lawyer said.