CHINA

The company gave up its 80 percent stake in the high-end sports-car maker Sunday.

China’s main watchdog commission said that its local branches failed to publicize details of investigations.

According to Russia's RIA Novosti, Moscow is open to playing mediator to settle discord between the two Middle Eastern countries following the execution of a top Shiite cleric.

On 2016’s first trading day, stocks worldwide were dragged sharply lower by fresh evidence of a Chinese slowdown and Mideast tensions.

The city-state’s GDP grew at its slowest pace in the past six years as China — Singapore’s largest export destination — faced an economic slump.

Hong Kong bookseller Lee Bo, who went missing last Wednesday, is the fifth person associated with a publisher critical of Beijing to disappear in two months.

The circuit-breaker mechanism came into action on its first day after shares fell 7 percent following weak manufacturing data.

The Japanese leader has been trying to improve relations with Moscow, but the latter's involvement in several international crises has caused delays.

“Avatar” earned $760.5 million at the U.S. box office, and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” already has generated $740.4 million domestically.

China rejected Vietnam's accusations, and said that the flight was conducted to test if the country's airfield, built on the disputed islands, was fit for civil aviation.

BP CEO Bob Dudley says the bottom in oil prices could be reached in the first quarter, good news for consumers, bad news for producers.

The Vietnamese foreign ministry called the Chinese action in the South China Sea “a serious infringement” of its sovereignty.

Data indicates that Shenzhen overtook China’s two largest cities from June, with property prices at more than twice the national average.

The explosion at a restaurant in the Afghanistan capital came days after the group claimed responsibility for an attack near the city’s airport.

The move comes nearly two months after President Xi Jinping said that his country was continuing a major overhaul of its military structure.

But only about a half the nation's couples are reportedly willing to have two children, amid an economic slowdown.

Hundreds have been killed over the past few years in China's western region in violence between the Muslim Uighur people and ethnic majority Han Chinese.

The Chinese central bank is expected to further cut interest rates in order to boost growth and ward off deflation risks.

A tumultuous 2015 ended with major indexes mostly flat amid a big drop for oil prices. Netflix and Google won big, while shares of Chipotle and Apple soured.

China could become the largest movie market sooner than predicted if two American-Chinese co-productions perform well.

Factors ranging from the health of the job market to corporate capital allocation patterns will determine the financial course of 2016.