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A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy. Gang Chen, 56, of Cambridge, was arrested Thursday morning on charges that he abused his position as a professor at MIT to commit wire fraud, failed to file a…

A global team of researchers has arrived in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to investigate its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries

The U.K. has introduced new measures to root out the presence of alleged forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region in British supply chains.

Lenovo said it had filed to issue so-called Chinese depositary receipts (CDRs) on the Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Sellers on the dark web have been advertising Covid-19 vaccines, asking for bitcoin payments and not delivering the goods, cybersecurity firm Check Point found.

Regardless of the pandemic or geopolitical tensions, China has stuck to plans to increase the ability of foreigners to participate in the local financial market.

The Butantan Institute had said last week that CoronaVac was 78% effective among volunteers with mild to severe infections, reported the Wall Street Journal.

Adelson, owner of the Las Vegas Sands, had been among the most-watched donors supporting President Trump’s reelection effort.

China has released draft rules on various areas from antitrust to data protection as it aims to regulate its biggest technology firms.

Chinese video platform Bilibili has confidentially filed for a secondary listing in Hong Kong, a source close to the matter told CNBC.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, Niu Technologies sold 149,705 e-scooters, growing 40.9% year-over-year.

China says a group of experts from the World Health Organization is due to arrive Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic

Chinese internet giant Baidu has formed a strategic partnership with automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company.

China’s state media lashed out at the latest move on Taiwan by the departing Trump administration

It took just 39 new coronavirus cases for health authorities in China to put almost 11 million people into lockdown in the city of Shijiazhuang, NBC News reports. Health officials took no chances on Wednesday, sealing off the capital of the industrial Hebei province and ordering a mass testing drive. Travel restrictions were put in place in the remainder of the region, which...

The Shanghai International New Cultural and Creative E-sports Center will span 500,000 square meters.

Stock index giants MSCI and FTSE Russell said they would remove three Chinese telecommunications giants’ Hong Kong-traded shares from widely followed indexes.

The U.S. has had tense relationships with the two authoritarian states, which some experts said are challenging American leadership on the global stage.

Baidu will create a standalone electric vehicle company with Chinese automaker Geely as a minority shareholder. Geely will be responsible for manufacturing.

Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, reported 31 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 35 asymptomatic ones for Thursday.