CHINA

China's state secrets watchdog has accused mining multinational Rio Tinto of engaging in commercial spying over six years, saying data on Rio computers showed the espionage came at a huge loss to China.

Typhoon Morakot battered China's commercial east coast on Sunday, killing a child and flattening houses.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Angola on Sunday to do more to fight corruption during a two-day visit to the oil-producing country aimed at bolstering ties between the two nations.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Angola on Sunday in a bid to bolster opportunities for U.S. business in the major oil producer.

A journal issued by China's state secrets watchdog has accused the mining multinational Rio Tinto of commercial spying over six years, saying data found on Rio computers showed the espionage had come at a huge cost to China.

China Mobile is reviving efforts to seek a listing in Shanghai after years of unsuccessful attempts, analysts and bankers said, sending the index heavyweight up as much as 4.3 percent intraday Friday.

BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, canceled plans to install a new president for the company's operations in China, the Beijing-based Beijing Times reported on Friday, the same day that the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) announced heavy regulation over resident representative offices of foreign firms.

China's auto sales surpassed the United States' again in July, jumping 63.57% over a year earlier to 1.09 million units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on Friday.

Chinese police are investigating a bootcamp for Internet addicts after a teenage boy died, apparently following a severe beating, just hours after checking in, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Wednesday.

Malaysia denied on Friday that a proposed Internet filter would be used to police blogs and websites, saying it would be used only to block pornography.

The Nasdaq-listed Chinese search engine Baidu Inc has topped Yahoo! to become the world's second most popular search engine in June, the US marketing research company ComScore released in its report this week.

China's main stock exchange plans to launch an international board next year that would allow foreign companies to sell shares denominated in Chinese currency for the first time, a strong move to promote yuan as a more global currency, local news said.

China will spend more than 15% ($88 billion) of the country's 4-trillion-yuan ($586 billion) stimulus package on cutting carbon emissions by the end of 2010, China's chief climate change negotiator said on Wednesday.

Twitter Inc., the fast-growing microblogging service, was inaccessible Thursday morning, struck by a denial-of-service attack, the company said on its status blog. Meanwhile, Facebook's site has been sluggish and unresponsive on Thursday.

Worldwide PC chip sales on Thursday soared 10.1 percent in the second quarter, but it still is in weak condition, according to IDC.

Senior officials from Apple Inc had begun negotiations with China Unicom in Beijing, a source close to both sides told Netease on Monday night, noting that the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS will be introduced to China at the same time.

China is winning a global race to create green collar jobs, six months after countries worldwide launched $500 billion spending plans to drive a low-carbon economy.

Ford Motor Co's (F.N) car venture in China sold 54 percent more Ford brand vehicles in July from a year earlier, its sales arm said on Thursday.

The United States is playing down talk of a breakthrough with Pyongyang after former U.S. President Bill Clinton flew to North Korea this week to win the release of two jailed American journalists.

China Metallurgical Group plans to seek dual listings in Hong Kong and Shanghai as early as September to raise up to $4 billion, said sources with direct knowledge of the deal, which could be the world's second-largest fundraising this year.

Hong Kong's power plant operator GCL-Poly Energy Holdings will invest about $200 million to build a solar wafer plant in the Chinese city of Xuzhou, banking on a recovery in polysilicon prices and robust demand from China.