Shanghai police believe minivan crash was accident and not attack, say driver was smoking while transporting gas tanks

China is seeking ways to remove the oil that sank with an Iranian tanker whose 32 crew members died

The Australian government has announced tighter controls on foreign investment in electricity grids and farmland two years after Chinese buyers were blocked from high-profile corporate takeovers in both sectors

China is criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to approve higher tariffs on solar power components and washing machines as an abuse of trade remedies

Asian stock markets are mixed after global investors shrugged off the US government shutdown

Modest gains for world shares as US government closure looms, dollar retreats

A Chinese official says the explosion and sinking of an Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea was without precedent, creating enormous difficulties for rescue and recovery efforts

China's Transport Ministry says preparations are underway to send a robot submarine possibly followed by divers to explore and plug holes in a sunken Iranian oil tanker whose 32 crew members are all believed to have died.

A Chinese transport ministry spokesman says the fire in a pool of oil from a sunken tanker in the East China Sea has burned out