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Malaysian Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to China Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting would be among 19 high-level government representatives to attend the event, said Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming at the press conference.

Concerns over China’s slowing economy that sent global stock and commodity markets on a recent free fall are heightened by the opacity and conflicting signals from the country’s political leadership and its central bank.

American sprinter Justin Gatlin it has been revealed is on a media black-out especially to British news houses and the BBC following “hurtful attacks” and “biased views” in reports.

Chinese authorities are investigating four securities brokerages and one current and one former employee of its securities regulator for possible stock market offenses. After hitting a seven-year high in mid-June, the Shanghai stock index has dropped more than 40 per cent,...

The People’s Bank of China reformed the exchange rate formation system on August 11 to better reflect market development in the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar.

The Ftse 100, which marked its biggest weekly loss of the year on Friday, has now fallen for 10 sessions in a row, its longest continuous decline since 2003.

US stocks initially posted their sharpest rally of the year in Tuesday morning trading after investors looked for bargains a day after Wall Street’s worst performance in four years.

The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, on Tuesday morning moved to devalue its tightly controlled currency, the Yuan, following weaker than expected Chinese import and Export data over the weekend.

China’s Shanghai Composite plunged further this morning, opening more than six per cent down – but other major indices in Asia regained ground in morning trading as investors made the most of yesterday’s bloodbath.

The STOXX 600 Basic Resources Index, whose constituents are mostly mining stocks, and the energy sector fell 10 % and 8.8 % respectively, as commodities slumped to multi-year lows, with China being one of the world’s biggest users of metals and oil.

She began representing Israel in 2013 after marrying former decathlete Anatoly Minenko and jumped 14.61m in Prague in June to improve her own national record.

The daily said that market capitalisation fell by Rs. “This is the biggest one-day slump in China since 2007”.

The cause of the global market volatility centres on fears that the world’s second biggest economy is slowing. “And I don’t see any signs of meaningful government intervention”.

The benchmark S&P index has accumulated 9.95 percent of losses in just five sessions.

Many traders had hoped Beijing would take support measures, such as an interest rate cut, over the weekend after China’s main stocks markets slumped 11 percent last week.