CHINA

More low temperature records tumbled across China on Thursday, as the country endures a persistent cold snap that has crowned a year of extreme weather.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that maintaining close ties with Russia is a "strategic choice", calling for deeper bilateral cooperation during a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing, state media reported.

Rescuers dug through rubble for a second freezing day on Wednesday after overnight temperatures plunged well below zero, with the death toll in China's deadliest earthquake in years rising to 131.

The United States has charged an Iranian and a Chinese national with allegedly supplying microelectronics to Iran for use in the drone program of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

At least 116 people were killed when an earthquake collapsed buildings in northwest China, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue workers raced to start digging through rubble in freezing conditions.

At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son.

China's new domestically produced passenger jet made its debut outside the mainland on Wednesday, with international media in Hong Kong getting their first up-close look.

A dissident doctor who became China's most outspoken AIDS campaigner was praised in her home country on Tuesday, days after she died in self-exile in the United States at age 95.

China's President Xi Jinping arrived in Vietnam Tuesday for his first visit in six years, as he seeks to counter the United States' growing influence with the communist nation.

Thanks to boosted investment in renewables, coal has proven a far easier energy source to quit than oil and gas -- with a few exceptions -- in major economies.

Hydroelectric power is the world's most significant source of renewable energy, but it's not exactly 'green'.

COP28 may become the first-ever international climate summit to commit to eventually phasing out oil and gas.

Argentina's President-elect is expected to withdraw Argentina from a planned expansion of the non-western economic alliance.

US climate envoy John Kerry unveiled the world's first international strategy for commercializing nuclear fusion power, notably excluding China.

Ratings agency Moody's on Tuesday downgraded the outlook on China's credit rating to "negative" from "stable" on the back of rising debt in the world's second-largest economy, with Beijing saying it was "disappointed" by the move.

The Maduro regime is threatening to destabilize the Caribbean in a bid for offshore oil reserves, in a move likely to invite back crippling US sanctions.

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Saturday urged lawmakers, Silicon Valley and US allies to stop China from getting semiconductors and cutting-edge technologies key to national security.

The world's largest retailer has increased the share of U.S. imports from India in recent years, while its Chinese imports have significantly dipped.

China is not likely to consider a major invasion of Taiwan for now due to domestic challenges, the island's president Tsai Ing-wen said Wednesday, although Beijing is trying to sway its upcoming election.

India's global market share in the pharmaceutical business is expected to grow and is estimated to exceed $130 billion by 2030.

One of the key issues is the valuation of the Chinese fashion retailer, CNBC reported.