CHINA

A top government adviser expressed doubts if the country could meet its growth target, even as stock markets fall again.

The purchase marks the biggest acquisition by Chinese investors in Germany, according to a ChemChina statement.

The hospital in the central Chinese province of Henan was partly demolished Thursday while it was still in use.

The bank would expand at a much faster pace in the next 10 years compared to its growth in the region so far, CEO Sergio Ermotti said.

The Monday openings follow a dramatic "circuit breaker" pause in trading on Thursday.

After a dismal week for Wall Street, Asian share markets faced a testing time on Monday.

Volatility in China and weak oil prices are expected to have hurt the revenues of America’s biggest banks.

A look at the best videos from CES 2016 in Las Vegas, including the rise of Chinese companies at CES, big screen TVs, the connected home, the proliferation of drones, a number of new virtual reality headsets and many developments in self-driving and electric cars.

Analysts anticipate the country will act to prevent running down its foreign-exchange reserves the way it did last month.

ECB forecasters and economists expect the eurozone economy to grow at a slightly faster pace this year, around 1.7 percent.

Vietnam says China's act of flying its planes unannounced over the disputed Spratly Islands is a danger to international aviation.

The Islamist militants have stepped up their violent campaign in the last year to oust the government in Kabul.

Ticket sales in China could help the seventh film in the science-fiction saga top “Avatar” as the highest-grossing Hollywood movie worldwide.

Several people linked to city bookshops stocking publications critical of China have gone missing over the past few months.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” broke records in China with an estimated $33 million in ticket sales on its first day in the country, Walt Disney Co. says.

Since entering the Chinese auto market a decade ago, Acura has struggled, selling a little more than 4,000 cars there last year, compared with Audi’s 554,000 and BMW’s 460,000.

The cause of the explosion has yet to be determined.

The chief operating officer says critics will be seeing a turnaround at the Canadian company by 2017.

The yuan is trading at its lowest level in five years against the dollar, following a 0.5 percent devaluation by Beijing earlier this week.

Shares of Affymetrix jumped about 50 percent during after-market trade Friday, following the announcement.

China's economy was off to a shaky start in 2016, as producer prices fell and the main stock market index lost 10 percent in the first week of trading.