China and the Asia Development Bank (ADB) have launched a green financing platform to support efforts by small- and medium-sized enterprises to cut pollution in the smog-hit Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, ADB said on Friday.

• June 16, 2017

Approvals of initial share offerings are slowing in China once again as local share prices slide, but major state-controlled newspapers are urging the stock market regulator not to "balk or backtrack" on reforms.

• June 12, 2017

The world's poorest children are at greater risk of trafficking and slavery if the United States goes ahead with its plan to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Wednesday.

• June 7, 2017

California said it would cooperate with China on clean technology, emissions trading and other "climate-positive" efforts in a bid to fill a gap left after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord last week.

• June 6, 2017

China supports Iran's membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) security bloc, jointly led by China and Russia, and the subject will be discussed at the group's summit this week, a senior diplomat said on Monday.

• June 5, 2017

The European Union and China failed on Friday to reach agreement on the problem of steel overcapacity and the EU's stance toward Chinese dumping, despite "narrowing differences".

• June 3, 2017

The United States on Thursday blacklisted nine companies and government institutions, including two Russian firms, and three people for their support of North Korea's weapons programs.

• June 1, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that elements of a U.S. anti-missile system in Alaska and South Korea were a challenge to Russia and that Moscow had no choice but to build up its own forces in response.

• June 1, 2017