China on Thursday urged Iran to heed rising international worry about its nuclear ambitions, saying Beijing would seek to work with Europe and the United Nations to defuse the crisis but holding its tongue on any new sanctions.
United Airline announced on Tuesday its plans to start daily nonstop flights from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China.
HONG KONG, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Oil soared above $98 a barrel for the first time on Wednesday and gold rose to a 28-year high as investors sought shelter from the falling dollar, which plumbed all-time lows.
The dollar dropped to record lows versus the euro on Wednesday after comments by a Chinese official stoked fears the central bank of the world's fourth largest economy would reduce its holdings of U.S. assets.
Does Asia have more to fear from rising petrol prices as crude oil hurtles towards $100 a barrel than it does from slowing growth in its biggest export market of the United States?
A nonprofit group said on Tuesday production of a new laptop computer for children in developing countries had begun, a milestone that could shake up the PC industry by ushering in a new era of low-cost computing.
A global shortage of executive talent is forcing companies to be much more accommodating as increasingly restless senior managers demand less travel and more flexibility, executive search firms say.
Toyota Motor Corp, the world's most profitable automaker, posted a 2.7 percent rise in quarterly operating profit thanks to a weaker yen, stronger sales and cost cuts and nudged up its full-year forecasts.
Six in 10 U.S. consumers say a recession is likely in the next three to six months, a new survey on holiday spending said on Wednesday. A telephone survey found 45.7 percent of 1,000 respondents say a recession is somewhat likely, 14.3 percent said very likely and Forty percent said a recession was not likely
Oil sped above $98 a barrel for the first time on Wednesday, closing in on the landmark $100 level, driven by a slumping U.S. dollar and worries over a winter fuel supply crunch.
Yahoo Inc's chief executive was verbally lashed by U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday over the Internet company's role in helping identify a Chinese dissident who was later imprisoned by the government.
Marriott International Inc sees the Asia Pacific market benefiting from a weaker dollar and expects revenue from China and India to stay strong in the coming years, a top official said on Tuesday.
From behind a computer keyboard at his London home, student Younes Tsouli used the Internet to spread al Qaeda propaganda, recruit suicide bombers and promote Web sites that encouraged the killing of non-Muslims.
North Korea's first steps to roll back a nuclear arms program launched about 40 years ago are going well, a U.S. official said on Tuesday after visiting the North's plutonium-producing atomic complex.
Asian markets were volatile on Tuesday with indexes shifting between gains and losses after a turbulent Monday.
Shares of Alibaba.com more than doubled in its debut in Hong Kong debut, marking the largest initial public offering by an e-commerce company since Google Inc.
Nufarm said on Monday that it has received an acquisition proposal from China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) for $2.75 billion.
PetroChina Co. shares more than doubled in their Shanghai debut Monday, giving the oil giant a $1 trillion market capitalization and easily surpassing Exxon Mobil as the world's largest company.
Global hoteliers are riding a building boom in Asia, and using plush new hotels as giant, living advertisements to lure newly rich Chinese and Indians to their U.S. and European properties.
Floods have killed at least 46 people in central Vietnam in the last 10 days and a typhoon making its way across the South China Sea is forecast to dump more rain this week, reports said on Monday.
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Monday his firm's acquisition of a 1.6 percent stake in socializing Web site Facebook for $240 million was an important investment, not a mistake.
The United States and Britain heaped pressure on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Monday, urging him to hold elections on time, as police detained hundreds of lawyers angry at his imposition of emergency rule.
