Asia Pacific

China’s birthrate is too low and needs to rise as the nation faces serious challenges including a shrinking labour force and rapidly ageing population, the government said in blueprint outlining population policies up to 2030.

Pulling a trailer packed with dive tanks and a compression motor, the three co-founders of Breathe Ezy drive around the scenic mountains and valleys of New Zealand’s South Island collecting air.

A corporate buyer is set to pay the highest stamp duty ever on a property in Hong Kong, after forking out HK$1.08 billion for Asia’s most expensive house per square foot.

In a Kowloon lab looking out to the ocean, a Hong Kong professor made a discovery that he believes could save navies and shipping companies around the world billions of dollars every year, as well as protect marine ecosystems.

China overtook U.S. last year to become world’s largest cross-border property investor

China is preparing to retaliate if US president-elect Donald Trump launches a trade war, a key US business lobby group warned on Wednesday. “To our knowledge, China is already preparing measures in the event of actions by the new ­administration ...

China’s top media mogul Li Ruigang said the world’s second largest economy is using its massive market size to influence Hollywood’s way of thinking and how American film studios make movies.

Leveraged trading in Bitcoins has been halted in China, nearly a week after the central bank launched its first-ever probe into trading platforms of the virtual currency, following a market crash.

Global investors have been on a roller coaster ride for a year, ever since Donald Trump’s Twitter account redefined the way he conducted a presidential campaign, his subsequent policy musings, and quite possibly his future presidential pronouncements

China’s richest man Wang Jianlin is aggressively looking to expand his property and entertainment empire into the country’s private health-care sector to capitalise on a market that will potentially reach one trillion yuan.