Ten Irish third-level students have represented Ireland as part of ‘Seeds for the Future’, Huawei’s STEM education initiative, visiting China to develop local ICT talent.

Hong Kong's streets turned into rivers of umbrellas as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road. Organisers said at least 1.7 million participated.

A spokesman for China’s ceremonial legislature has condemned US politicians’ support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as “a gross violation of the spirit of the rule of law”.

Additional direct flights now operating from China to Dublin are bringing thousands of Chinese visitors to Ireland this year.

Sijia Jiang China’s Huawei Technologies has taken a harder-than-expected hit from a US ban, the company’s founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said, and slashed revenue expectations for the year.

Expressions of ‘deep sorrow and regret’ are unlikely to be enough to save embattled Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam, write James Pomfret and Greg Torode.

For would-be business owners in Cork and beyond, even a cursory look at the finalists in EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Ireland Awards over the years would be a worthwhile exercise in self-motivation.

The UK is set to toughen the rules under which Huawei Technologies operates in the country while stopping short of an outright ban on the Chinese telecom equipment maker.

A new direct flight from Dublin Airport to China's "tech hub" has been launched.

There was no indication of any possible retaliation from Beijing.

The IDA spent almost €17.2m funding its operations overseas last year.

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Rafael Nadal extended his winning run to 10 matches by beating John Isner in the quarter-finals of the China Open.

Cathay Pacific is being urged by analysts to widen its customer base in a bid to return to profitability. With the company expected to announce another loss this week, Cathay Pacific needs to shift strategy from being the region’s top airline for premium fliers and make a bigger effort to woo some of the millions of mainland leisure travellers who have enriched its state-owned rivals in China, analysts say.

Irish firms looking to expand their horizons after Brexit received a boost with the pledge that the Chinese are ready to do serious business.

Huawei Technologies earnings have grown at their slowest pace in five years, as China’s biggest maker of telecommunications gear sank money into research and a marketing blitz to gain ground on Apple and Samsung in smartphones.

Serena Williams insists she has nothing to lose when she takes on Britain's Johanna Konta at the Australian Open.

Alibaba is leading a bid to take department store chain Intime Retail private for as much as $2.6bn (€2.46bn), as China’s largest online retailer deepens its integration with brick-and-mortar stores.

Sixty-seven people have been killed, with two other workers injured and one missing after scaffolding collapsed at a power plant construction site in eastern China, state media reported.

Two years ago, two small firms Oppo and Vivo couldn’t crack the top five in China’s smartphone market. Now they outrank everyone after elbowing Apple aside, thanks to people like Cheng Xiaoning.

The push by China’s policymakers to rein in property bubbles looks to be getting traction, according to early indicators from the nation’s biggest cities.

After plenty of speculation and leaks, we now know that the OnePlus 3 will be announced on June 15.

After announcing its first-ever drop in iPhone sales on Tuesday night, Apple sought to reassure investors by saying its latest and cheapest model was in strong demand after being launched in late March. Some retailers and suppliers in Asia aren’t so sure.

Tourism chiefs are co-ordinating a sales offensive to attract more visitors from China, with the operators of Ireland’s top tourism draws and travel companies, including the Guinness Storehouse and Titanic Belfast.

Shanghai’s stock index plunged nearly 7% today, sparking a halt in trading of Chinese shares, after weak manufacturing data and Middle East tensions weighed on Asian markets.

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A Chinese local government official has killed himself a week after a landslide from a pile-up of construction waste in his city left scores missing and presumed dead.

Waste mudslide covers buildings in China’s latest industrial disaster

Officials highlighted their handling of the search for 76 missing people at a collapsed mountain of construction waste as questions mounted yesterday about why leaders in southern China’s most prominent manufacturing city didn’t act months earlier to prevent the disaster.

Rescuers were searching for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sunday.

A landslide has buried buildings at and around an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, leaving 22 people missing, authorities said.

Carol O’Callaghan finds despite the lack of a national strategy, moves are being made to raise awareness of design at home and abroad.

Growth in China’s investment and factory output missed forecasts in August, pointing to a further cooling in the world’s second-largest economy that will likely prompt the country’s government to roll out more support measures.

From now until September 27, the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny hosts an exhibition of work from nine emerging architectural practices. 

China’s imports tumbled in August, raising concerns about the health of the world’s second-largest economy and its contribution to global growth.

China’s turbulent stock markets slipped again yesterday, as a double-barrelled blast of central bank stimulus failed to convince investors of Beijing’s ability to jolt its economy out of its slowdown.

China’s central bank cut interest rates and lowered the amount of reserves banks must hold for the second time in two months yesterday, ratcheting up support for a stuttering economy and a plunging stock market that has sent shockwaves around the globe.

North Korea wants to raise $39m (€35.5m) from foreign investors to fund a new brewery in Wonsan, an eastern port city where national leader, Kim Jong Un, has big development ambitions.

Chinese shares slid more than 8% yesterday as an unprecedented government rescue plan to prop up valuations ran out of steam, throwing Beijing’s efforts to stave off a deeper crash into doubt.

 A communist regime trying to create a casino-like capitalist market is just one of the contradictions accumulating in almost every corner of China’s economy and politics, writes Pranab Bardhan