China's top annual political gathering is drawing to a close. The parliamentary session, the National People's Congress, will conclude on Tuesday in Beijing, while the session of the top advisory body -- the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference -- wrapped up on Monday. CPPCC chairman and state leader Wang Huning called on delegates to focus on the "big picture" and deepen unity. Frank Yung has more from Beijing:

Online food delivery firm Deliveroo says it is leaving Hong Kong for financial reasons, after operating in the SAR for nine years. Its UK-based parent company says Deliveroo's service platform will run until April 7, and that it would sell some assets to rival Foodpanda. Two hundred full-time staff with Deliveroo will lose their jobs. Damon Pang reports:

Unionist lawmaker Lam Chun-sing says some 30 self-employed riders from Deliveroo have contacted his group asking for help, after the online food delivery firm announced it was leaving. The chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions says those riders mostly worry about whether they'll take home the same pay if they accept an offer to switch to a new platform. The workers will hold talks with the union group in the coming days. Lam spoke to Damon Pang about the closure of Deliveroo:

Hong Kong's finance and technology ministers have welcomed a HK$200 million donation by property developers to support the city¡¦s generative artificial intelligence development. The funds will be used to support the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Centre and to develop an app for a locally-developed generative AI tool. Chloe Feng reports:

The Foreign Ministry in Beijing says a plan by Washington to levy fees on Chinese ships will hurt global supply and industrial chains and will not have the effect of revitalising the US shipbuilding industry. The response came after a draft executive order from the Trump administration revealed plans to charge fees for docking at US ports on any ship that is part of a fleet that includes Chinese-built or Chinese-flagged vessels, in a bid by the White House to try and resurrect the American-ship building industry. Mao Ning is a Foreign Ministry spokesperson:

A tanker carrying jet fuel has collided with a cargo vessel off the east coast of England. The collision ignited a blaze and multiple explosions and forced both crews to abandon ship. Thirty-six mariners are ¡§safe and accounted for¡¨. However, the search has been called off for one of the cargo ship's crew who went missing. Jamie Clarke has more:

There has been a large sell-off in US stocks as concerns about tariffs - and a possible federal government shutdown - led to fears the American economy could be heading into a recession. All three major US indexes saw sharp declines. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell four percent, its biggest single-day percentage drop in 2.5 years. The S&P 500 fell 2.7 percent - its largest one-day drop since mid-December. The Dow Jones fell 2.1 percent. On Sunday, President Donald Trump declined to comment on the negative market reaction to his on-again, off-again tariff actions against the biggest US trading partners. Mike Mussio is the president of FBB Capital Partners:

Fresh from a landslide victory to become the leader of Canada¡¦s ruling Liberal Party, former central banker Mark Carney has met with Justin Trudeau and said the formal handover of power will be quick. Trudeau is still prime minister until Carney formally takes over the role. Canadian newspapers have said that could happen on Thursday or Friday. Jamie Clarke reports:

Professor Al Reyes of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong told Carol Musgrave that Mark Carney's tough position on President Donald Trump meant that relations between the US and Canada would be fraught:

America¡¦s top diplomat says he sees promise in Ukraine¡¦s proposal for a partial ceasefire to end the three-year conflict with Russia. The comments come ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia between US and Ukrainian officials. Kyiv is expected to propose an aerial and naval truce with Russia during the negotiations on Tuesday. Meanwhile, there are talks elsewhere on the creation of an international security force for Ukraine. The force, which has so far been shrouded in secrecy, would aim to dissuade Russia from launching another offensive after any ceasefire in Ukraine comes into effect. Jamie Clarke has more:

Police in southern India have arrested two men over the alleged rape of an Israeli and a local woman. Sexual assaults on women have become familiar in India. Police recorded more than 31,000 cases in 2022 alone, a 20 percent increase from 2021. Sexual violence has been under the spotlight since the brutal 2012 gang rape and killing of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus. This most recent incident, which occurred last Thursday, also led to the death of an Indian man. Jamie Clarke has more:

The population of butterflies in the United States has fallen by more than a fifth this century. That's according to research into hundreds of such species, from the red admiral butterfly to the American lady to the cabbage white. Jacqueline Guico reports:

High-tech development's taken centre-stage at this year's Two Sessions in Beijing. Artificial intelligence is high on the agenda, with "embodied AI," or AI with a physical form such as a robot, and "large-scale AI models," represented by DeepSeek, making it into the annual government work report for the first time. The Two Sessions also continue to highlight the development of New Quality Productive Forces campaigned by President Xi Jinping -- with the focus on scientific and technological innovation, and the upgrading of traditional industries. In this week's episode of our podcast China Perspectives, Chloe Feng takes a look at how that pioneering spirit is being embraced by two of the country's top tech entrepreneurs.