China and other developing nations must help pay for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Monday, backing off a recent statement that put a greater burden on the United States.
At Microsoft's research center in a leafy lane in India's tech capital, a new generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away from the software giant's sprawling headquarters in Seattle.
Ten years after a government crackdown drove it underground in China, Falun Gong is trying to position itself to get U.S. government funds to help defeat Internet censors worldwide.
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The world's population of older people is growing at the fastest rate ever seen and the old will soon outnumber the young for the first time, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
U.S. Energy Department announced a total of $57.5 million in funding from the stimulus package for smart grid projects. Ecuador continued in talks with China on Monday, to supply oil to the Asian country under a two-year contract.
An estimated 300 million people in China will be able to see a total eclipse on Wednesday which is the longest in 500 years, according to an observatory in Nanjing.
CDC Games, a business unit of CDC Corp, said it expects second-quarter revenue to rise 50 percent sequentially, helped by a rebound in the operating metrics of one of its games.
China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) said on Monday it had fixed a price range for its Shanghai initial public offering (IPO), looking to raise as much as 50.16 billion yuan ($7.34 billion).
India's leading oil producer ONGC has hired Citigroup to advise it on a bid for Kosmos Energy's stake in an oil field in Ghana in a deal that could be worth between $3 billion and $5 billion, sources familiar with the deal said.
Liaoning Xiyang Group, a privately-owned miner in China, will develop a one-billion-ton iron ore deposit in Russia, including an onsite steel mill, beginning in April 2010, the China Securities Journal reported late last week.
General Motors (GM) said on Monday that it had received three binding takeover offers for Opel that it would consider together with the European countries that would be affected by the deal.
China's CPI Mengdong Energy Group, the parent of smelter HMHJ Aluminum, has agreed to import 2.5 million tonnes of alumina from international trading house Trafigura Group, trading sources said on Monday.
China will maintain a basically stable yuan at a reasonable and balanced level, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in a reiteration of the country's long-standing description of its exchange rate policy.
Chinese iron ore miner Lung Ming, partly owned by private equity firm Hopu and Singapore's state investor Temasek, plans to list shares in Hong Kong this year to raise up to $1 billion, sources with direct knowledge of the plan said.
The row over four Rio Tinto Ltd staff detained in China accused of spying has exposed Australia to Chinese wrath just when a Mandarin-speaking leader in Canberra had appeared to have wooed the country over.
Australia's trade minister said on Monday that Australia wants more details on the detained employees of miner Rio Tinto from China quickly, but said the case would not hurt economic relations if handled properly.
Australia's trade minister said on Monday China's detention of Rio Tinto employees would not hurt economic relations if handled properly, but said the case was a signal to everyone looking to invest in China.
Ethnic rioting in China's far western region of Xinjiang was well planned and co-ordinated to take place at more than 50 locations across the regional capital Urumqi, the official People's Daily reported Sunday.
China's online shopping rose by 18.9% over the first six months despite traditional retailing's struggle to keep their customers amid the economic downturn, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
Australasian Resources Ltd (Australasian) has terminated its project agreement with China's 4th largest steelmaker, Shougang Corporation (Shougang), Australasian said on Thursday, adding that it has begun talks with other interested parties.
