China's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, rose 5.3 percent year-on-year to 5.09 trillion kilowatt-hours in the first half of 2026, according to the National Energy Administration (NEA) on Wednesday.

China's GDP expanded by 4.7 percent year-on-year to 69.57 trillion yuan ($10.28 trillion) in the first half of 2026, remaining well within the government's annual growth target of 4.5 to 5 percent and showing resilience despite growing global economic uncertainties

Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is set to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market, with subscriptions opening on Thursday, according to an exchange announcement issued on Wednesday.

Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion dollar company.

Russia will introduce a new mechanism limiting purchases of gasoline on the commodity exchange to end-users or authorized buyers acting on their behalf, beginning on July 21, the Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange has announced.In an announcement published on its website on Tuesday,

Government officials, manufacturers, and investors have called for stronger investment, deeper regional integration, and closer public-private collaboration to accelerate Africa's industrialization at the 2026 Manufacturing Indaba in Johannesburg, South Africa's economic hub.Addressing the two-day