The Swiss mining and trading giant's earnings plunged 32 percent last year to $8.7 billion as global prices for metals and crude oil plummeted.
A court in southern China’s Guangdong convicted 24 members of a group conning over 230,000 people, mostly elderly, from 2002 to 2012.
Amid speculation that the pilot hijacked the plane to protest the conviction of Anwar Ibrahim, a distant relative, Ibrahim’s daughter called the link between the two men coincidental.
Lee Bo appeared on Chinese television late Monday for the first time since his disappearance, saying he sneaked into China illegally.
Singapore, which does not claim any part of the South China Sea, will speak for claimants like the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.
The vote is expected to come during a meeting that begins at 3 p.m. EST Tuesday.
China cut bank reserve requirements for the fifth time in a year, injecting cash into the economy but also raising concerns about bubbles and “zombie” companies.
Beijing just made it easier for Chinese banks to lend money, a step it hopes will juice the economy without encouraging capital flight.
South Korean businesses are seeking government compensation for losses following the closure of a joint North-South Korean industrial complex.
The report, which touches on a a broad range of issues, comes a week after Prime Minister David Cameron set June 23 as the date for voting on the U.K.'s membership in the European Union.
Some Olympic athletes said they will hold off on plans to start a family until after the games had passed.
The latest finding about e-cigarettes leads the city's Council on Smoking and Health to call for a ban.
Japan has offered to provide the Philippines with surveillance aircraft as China reaffirms its military capability in the turbulent South China Sea region.
The move will continue to raise questions about whether China can pull off its shift to an economy oriented toward domestic demand and away from export-led growth.
The recent disappearances of Hong Kong booksellers have prompted fears that mainland Chinese authorities are attempting to curb civil rights in the region.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently accused Philippines of “political provocation” in seeking arbitration to resolve the territorial dispute in the South China Sea.
The multimillion-dollar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that went missing in March 2014 has stretched for nearly two years with no concrete clues about the plane’s whereabouts.
The layoffs, some of which will come in 2016, are part of the country’s efforts to cut industrial overcapacity.
Microblog portals were ordered to ban the account of Ren Zhiqiang, known for his bold remarks on China's economic policy, for “spreading illegal information.”
Tiangong-2 will be launched later this year, advancing China’s ambitious plan to build its own space station by 2022.
Several schools within Namibia's central Khomas region will offer classes in Mandarin, sponsored by the Chinese government.
The demonstration of discontent at an agriculture exposition follows months of nationwide protests over what the farmers' union calls a lack of government support.