According to data from container shipping analysis firm Linerlytica, 10.5 percent of global vessel capacity is waiting at port anchorages worldwide.

Shanghai ranks among the world's top 10 innovation cities, alongside other cities from the United States, Britain and Japan, according to a recently released assessment report on sci-tech innovation.

It was a quiet night as DeepSeek was by far the topic du jour in the region, though Mainland China (closed until next Wednesday), Indonesia (closed until Thursday), Malaysia (closed until Friday), and Taiwan (closed until next Monday) were closed for Chinese New Year while South Korea is closed until Friday for Korean New Year.

Chinese stocks have been a money pit for the past few years. But for investors willing to look past the wreckage, some companies are giving back. The domestic Chinese stock market remains a shadow of its former self,

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked concern among Japanese expats living in China. The sentence for the knife attack in the southern city of Shenzhen in September was handed down on Friday, according to Japanese media reports.

Asian stock markets are trading mostly higher on Thursday, supported by positive cues from Wall Street overnight.

Chinese shares closed lower, paring back the mild gains seen during the trading session. China's official manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs indicated a broad slowdown in activity for January, likely partly reflecting seasonality ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday,

Chinese shares ended higher as sentiment was buoyed by U.S. president Trump's latest comments on tariffs. Trump said in an interview with Fox that he would rather not have to use tariffs. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.

Morgan Lewis & Bockius’ Shenzhen office, launched less than two years ago, has ceased operations. The firm’s former Shenzhen head and intellectual property partner, Shaobin Zhu, left in November to join DLA Piper in the U.S. Morgan Lewis did not find a successor to lead the Shenzhen outfit, and subsequently closed the office.

His comments during an interview to CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, come just days after Donald Trump became U.S. President and threatened to deliver fresh tariffs against imports from China and the European Union.

China's Lunar New Year travel period, known as Chunyun in Chinese, is the world's largest annual migration of people that will see up to 9 billion domestic trips over a 40-day period. While the majority of travel takes place by road, air travel is still a significant part of the experience.

The map below shows the location of Shanghai and Shenzhen. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between Shenzhen and Shanghai. Load Map What is the travel ...