CHINA

The day honors women’s achievements and raises awareness about the many challenges left for women to overcome.

Revised data on Japan's gross domestic product show it contracted 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter, not 1.4 percent.

Small-scale companies are thrilled with cosmopolitan Chinese consumers' growing demand for high-end brews, which could help global brewing giants see frothier profits.

Plagued by the rise of fake viewers, or bots, the digital ad business is grappling with ways to restore some accountability.

Ratings company Fitch sees repercussions from slower growth in China and the price collapse in commodities, but not enough to slow global growth.

One of the world’s biggest on-demand audio services plans to make pro basketball games available to its users.

Sales plunged 70 percent last month, compared with the previous year, amid uncertainties wrought by China’s economic slowdown.

Foreign exchange reserves fell for the fourth month in a row to $3.20 trillion in February, the lowest level since December 2011.

The findings of a new study suggest that the Chinese government may have “under-promised and over-delivered” on emissions reduction.

Investors are moving funds into crude futures Monday after reports OPEC producers want a higher price. On the demand side, suppliers also received some positive news.

200,000 party members were given “light punishment,” while 82,000 received “heavy punishment,” a graft watchdog said.

Southeast Asia’s biggest budget airline, which reported its first profit in nine quarters, plans to boost flights to second-tier cities as competition heats up.

The Philippines said it found no traces of weapons of mass destruction on a North Korean vessel it detained under a new U.N. resolution against the country.

China reset its economic growth forecast for 2015 to a range of 6.5 percent to 7 percent.

The family-friendly animated film surpassed “Frozen” to set a weekend mark for Disney.

Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's vice chancellor, also described U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump as a “right-wing populist.”

China may launch mixed ownership pilot programs in the oil, natural gas and rail sectors, the country's economic planning head Xu Shaoshi said Sunday.

The U.S. Commerce Department investigated ZTE over contracts to ship hardware and software worth millions of dollars from some of America’s biggest tech firms to Iran’s largest telecom carrier.

China aims to boost its research-and-development spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product between 2016 and 2020, compared with 2.1 percent of GDP in the previous five-year period.

Participation in the planned talks was declined by the Taliban, which repeated that its preconditions, including the withdrawal of foreign troops, had not been met.

As China unveils its economic goals for the next year, experts say there is tension between stimulus measures and needed market reforms.