CHINA

China's inland provinces are starting to feel the pinch of the global economic downturn companies and officials said at the 20th China Harbin International Economy and Trade Fair

A California company accusing a Chinese rival of stealing its code for anti-pornography software has demanded that U.S. PC makers Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway stop shipping computers loaded with the program Green Dam.

Despite of the criticism received of the Chinese government over its mandate to have computer-makers install the “Green Dam” Internet filtering software, the government has moved to recruit 10,000 volunteers to filter Internet Contents.

A push by the United Steelworkers union to slash China tire imports into the U.S. got a boost today after federal investigators determined the imports cause or threaten to cause market disruption to domestic tire makers.

North Korea may be preparing to fire a long-range missile towards Japan's Okinawa Island, Guam or US's Hawaii, according to Japanese daily.

China's Internet watchdog condemned the Chinese-language version of Google on Thursday for disseminating pornographic and vulgar information.

HONG KONG/NEW YORK - U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group LP is in talks with the Shanghai city government to set up a wholly-owned China subsidiary as it prepares to launch a local currency private equity fund, sources said on Thursday.

French emissions exchange BlueNext has taken its first step toward a carbon trading platform in China with a deal to offer its clients a database of Chinese carbon-cutting projects, its chairman said on Thursday.

Massive policy stimulus should keep China growing at a respectable rate this year and next, but a robust recovery is unlikely given global weakness and soft non-government investment, the World Bank said on Thursday.

Oil rose further over $71 a barrel on Thursday, buoyed by weakness in the dollar and bullish data on Chinese and U.S. crude inventories.

Massive policy stimulus should keep China growing at a respectable rate this year and next, but a robust recovery is unlikely given global weakness and soft non-government investment, the World Bank said on Thursday.

Oil rose toward $72 a barrel on Thursday as the dollar weakened, and bullish data on China and U.S. crude inventories helped lift sentiment.

Asian stocks retreated on Thursday, with some investors booking profits after solid gains in the second quarter sparked by signs the global economy is starting to recover.

China could still increase its holdings of U.S. Treasuries if the dollar is stable, even though the long-term trajectory is to diversify its foreign exchange reserves, a former central bank governor said in an essay.

Oil paused at $71 a barrel on Thursday, as traders weighed a steady dollar against bullish data on China and U.S. crude inventories.

Oil paused above $71 a barrel on Thursday, as traders weighed a steady dollar against bullish data on Chinese fuel exports and U.S. crude inventories.

Nokia’s distributors in China boycotted the products of the Finnish phone giant in protest over heavy fines the company levied on them for selling outside their assigned territories.

The controversial software to filter pornography and other unsuitable websites may face another yet another hurdle. The developers of the Chinese filtering software ‘Green Dam’ may face legal charges from the California-based Solid Oak, makers similar filtering software.

China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday announced that the discrepancy between industrial output and power generation growth in May was due to industrial restructuring and the use of energy-efficient products.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), comprising Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan-- held their own summit Tuesday in the Russian Ural city of Yekaterinburg.

The first summit of BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) ended on Tuesday in Yekaterinburg with robust consensus on more joint efforts to revive the world economy.