BEIJING (Reuters) -China's fragile housing market opened this year with slower declines in property investment and sales, buoyed by government efforts to arrest a protracted downturn in the sector, official data showed on Monday. Property investment in China fell 9.0% year-on-year in the first two months of 2024, compared with a 24.0% fall in December 2023, National Bureau of Statistics...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Uber has agreed to pay A$271.8 million ($178 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by Australian taxi operators and drivers, who say they lost income when the ride-hailing company moved into the country, a law firm said on Monday. The settlement is Australia's fifth-largest, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers said in a statement. The class action suit was filed in...

BEIJING, March 18 (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD launched on Monday a new version of its Destroyer 07 hybrid car at a starting price 11.3% lower than its predecessor, Reuters calculations showed. ...

SYDNEY, March 18 (Reuters) - Uber ( UBER ) has agreed to pay A$271.8 million ($178 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by Australian taxi operators and drivers, who say they lost income when the ride-hailing company moved into the country, a law firm said on Monday. The settlement is Australia's fifth-largest, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers said in a statement. The...