China
Volkswagen plans to cut up to 100,000 jobs 0China evacuates more than 600,000 as Typhoon Bavi nears landfall 0Landslides kill at least 15 in the Philippines as Typhoon Bavi tracks toward East Asia 0China recovers an orbital rocket booster for the first time 0Shoe factory fire in China's Fujian kills at least 28 0Tornadoes kill at least 17 in central China as Typhoon Bavi nears 0China's submarine-launched missile test in South Pacific draws regional criticism 0China frees Zion Church pastor Jin Mingri after Trump appeal 0China expands research grants aimed at young scientists 0China promotes two generals as a corruption purge thins the military's top ranks 0Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee dies in Taiwan at 70 0China says Beijing skyscraper plane crash was a deliberate act 0Singapore seizes 42m-dollar mansion in Nvidia chip smuggling case 0Alibaba to pay 600m dollars to settle US probe into illegal drug sales 0EU presses China on trade imbalance as deindustrialisation fears grow 0Australia and Vanuatu sign pact barring foreign military bases 0China imposes export controls on dozens of Japanese entities 0China's LineShine tops global supercomputer ranking with a novel chip design 0Anthropic accuses Alibaba of a large-scale effort to extract its Claude models 0Alibaba sues Pentagon over 'Chinese military company' designation 0Supreme Court ends lawsuit accusing Cisco of aiding China's surveillance of Falun Gong 0FDA launches pilot to speed up early-stage clinical trials 0China restricts exports to US defense firms in response to American controls 0UK sentences two men in first convictions for spying for China 0China detains two leaders of prominent underground church 0