Chinese stocks listed onshore slumped at the open amid skepticism about Beijing’s stimulus plans and signs of weakness in holiday-spending data.

Chinese stocks came under pressure on Tuesday after a disappointing update from the government tempered some of the exuberance that has propelled Chinese equities out of a bear market in recent weeks.

Two Chinese nationals who were killed in an explosion near Pakistan's Karachi international airport on Sunday worked for a power plant, Pakistan's finance minister said on Tuesday.

A Pakistani separatist group claimed responsibility for a late-night bombing that targeted a convoy with Chinese nationals outside the country's largest airport, killing two workers from China and wounding eight people,

A Pakistani separatist group has said it was behind a bombing outside Karachi's main airport that killed two Chinese workers.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban slammed the European Union for what he said was a failure to take into account the interests of the continent’s car industry in setting environmental goals.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's rejection of EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles failed to stop fellow European Union members voting in favour, exposing how a divided Berlin is struggling to drive EU policy.

The European Union is bracing for retaliation from China after the bloc voted last week to impose tariffs on the import of Chinese electric vehicles, or EVs, amid speculation that Beijing could seek to target individual European countries that voted for the measures.