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Nike reported a jump in quarterly earnings Tuesday as increased marketing investments paid off with strong pricing of direct-to-consumer offerings and huge growth in China

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said negotiations with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer were complete

Chinese electric automaker NIO Inc. said it will reduce its global workforce from 9,900 workers to about 7,800 by the end of Q3.

Demonstrators who lost family members during the Franco regime are repulsed by the huge memorial to the dictator at the Valley of the Fallen

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to intensify sanctions on Iran, despite European leaders' hopes for a last-minute breakthrough at the United Nations to reduce tensions.The leaders of France, Germany and Japan were all meeting separately with Trump and Iran's Hassan Rouhani, fanning speculation that the pair -- whose nations have been arch-enemies for four decades -- could have a historic encounter in New York.

Waning consumer confidence could hit retail sales, a mainstay of the US economy. Employee Lamar Roby prepares shipping orders at Amazon's San Bernardino Fulfillment Center

The postal union 'has always reinvented itself'

Washington has threatened to leave the UPU, whose director general Bishar Abdirahman Hussein oversaw an extraordinary congress, saying the current system sets rates that penalise the United States and benefit carriers in countries like China

China is ramping up preparations for October 1, marking the day the People's Republic of China was established

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Abdullah Rasul has so little contact with his family in China that it took three months for him to find out that his father was dead.Like other Uighur refugees from northwest China, Rasul, 35, who now lives in Istanbul, knows that making contact with relatives back home risks them coming under greater scrutiny from the authorities, or worse.The snippets of news he manages to receive through the restricted communication channels are terrifying, he says.

African swine fever in Asia

The China National Space Administration (CSNA) has released photos of the mysterious gel-like substance encountered by its Chang’e-4 mission on the Moon. According to scientists, the substance resembles the samples taken Apollo 17 astronauts during their lunar expedition.

Premium electric car manufacturer, NIO, sheds off more than $5 billion in losses.

People's Bank of China boss Yi Gang said there was ample room for fiscal and monetary support for the world's number-two economy

On June 9, a Chinese vessel rammed and sank a Filipino fishing boat and then abandoned the crew in the open waters. This became known as the Recto (or Reed) Bank incident that was brushed off as an “accident” by the Chinese and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.

Hong Kong has entered a 17th week of political unrest which seen hundreds of rallies, some of which ended in violent clashes between police and protestors

Tiffany & Co CEO Alessandro Bogliolo said luxury is now about 'being yourself'

Colombian President Ivan Duque, who has championed a hard line on Venezuela, speaks at a UN summit on climate change

The Clearwater Bay course lies to the east of Hong Kong Island

The Asian subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev plans to earn at least $5 billion from its upcoming Hong Kong IPO.