CHINA

Beijing residents responded to the city's first ever red smog alert with resignation, pragmatism and dark humor.

In 2013, over $258 billion in illegal funds was transferred out of China, making it the largest source of illicit financial outflow among all developing nations, according to a new study.

Miranda Kerr was unharmed after she fell off a banister posing for pictures during an appearance in China.

China’s foreign ministry said that the deployment of P-8 Poseidon spy plane amid South China Sea tensions did not serve the long-term interests of countries in the region.

On Wednesday, the country's sixth-largest bank by assets said it raised the capital through a 17 percent stake sale to 10 investors ahead of a planned IPO next year.

The findings from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank, were disputed by the company, which called the analysis "flawed."

Chinese imports fell for a thirteenth month, hurting commodity-linked stocks and currencies around the world.

As Beijing signals a red alert over smog, concerns about air pollution are high -- but worries about climate change are significantly lower.

The terror group recently released a chant in Mandarin aimed at recruiting Muslims from the Hui ethnic group in the northwest of the country.

The restructuring will see the military cut around 300,000 troops from its pool of around 2 million active personnel and create a Western-style military force.

Several times over the past week, the Indian capital has recorded air quality much worse than Beijing's. However, unlike the Chinese capital, it lacks provisions for issuing pollution-related alerts.

A U.S. defense official said that similar deployments in Singapore were likely to become common occurrence every three months, according to a report.

Exports were down for the fifth straight month in a fresh sign of challenges facing China's economy, though a drop in imports slowed in November.

Amnesty International said in a new report that the Islamic State group uses arms mainly seized from Iraqi military stocks, and has benefited from a poorly policed arms trade.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been trying to boost growth since coming to power in 2012.

Japan shares rose as much as 0.1 percent after the government revised third-quarter economic growth upward.

The four-door sedan will help the automaker challenge BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz in the luxury market.

China has been building up its land claim in the South China sea, adding military-grade airstrips.

Staff at the state-run China News Service apparently switched two Chinese characters with similar pronunciations in the report, accidentally writing that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s remarks were a “resignation,” not a “speech.”

A red alert is usually issued after three days of extremely high levels of air pollution.

At the end of November, China's foreign exchange reserves stood at $3.428 trillion -- a drop of $87.22 billion over the previous month.