Chinese consumers have been on a "gold rush" during the eight-day Spring Festival holiday, which ends on Monday, as the festival is deemed as peak season for gold consumption with demands from wedding, gifting and other necessities concentrating and surging during that period.

South Korea's export grew in double digits in the first 20 days of February due to soaring demand for locally-made semiconductors, customs office data showed Monday.Outbound shipment jumped 23.5 percent from a year earlier to 43.52 billion U.S. dollars in the Feb. 1-20 period, according to Korea

China's A-share market delivered its strongest annual performance in nearly 11 years in 2025. The SSE Composite Index surged 25.58 percent over the Year of Snake, the SZSE Component Index rose 38.84 percent, and the ChiNext Index led with an impressive gain of 58.73 percent.

On February 20 local time, the United States Supreme Court struck down the most representative tariff policy of President Donald Trump's second term. Currently, U.S. tariff rates are at their highest level since the 1940s.

Just a year ago, many humanoid robots were still at a rudimentary stage, able to do little more than basic movements. This Spring Festival, they once again stepped onto the stage of the China Media Group gala and executed a full sequence of extremely difficult movements with astonishing fluency.

US trading partners cautiously welcomed a Supreme Court ruling striking down US President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs, with hard-hit Canada saying the levies were always "unjustified."