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This year, online retailers are pulling out all the stops to ensure sales continue to boom -- but can it withstand China's economic slowdown?

A senior official said that the new policy is expected to boost the country's economic growth rate by about 0.5 of a percentage point.

The meeting with Philippines President Benigno Aquino III comes after a Netherlands court ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear a filing by Philippines over the disputed region.

The Markit China Business Outlook survey shows business sentiment is waning as the country copes with an economic slowdown.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says global growth is expected to gain speed in 2016 and 2017, despite China's slowing GDP.

Worries about China's economy, currency and reforms have led to record capital outflows in recent months, prompting the Chinese authorities to change tactics.

Eric Rosengren has in the past spoken about his preference for not waiting too long for a rate hike for fear of falling behind the curve.

The opposition candidate retains a big lead despite a historic summit between President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The move signals the end of an era that saw investors flock to Brazil, Russia, India and China, which were expected to shape a new economic world order.

Either UFOs really love the Golden State or it’s just a prime location for covert military testing. Since the 1950s, 11,092 UFOs have been reported in California.

A key indicator of economic health, business travel is forecast to rise by more than 6 percent in Europe next year, according to a new study.

The data released Sunday show the country's foreign trade dropped 9 percent in October, marking its eighth consecutive monthly decline.

The Communist Party's People's Daily repeated familiar threats against Taiwan the day after the historic summit.

"The United States will defend ... the principled international order," the U.S. defense secretary vowed, in the face of aggressive geopolitical moves from Russia and China.

Although there are a record number of students learning at Britain's "public" institutions, they're not spread out evenly across the country.

The so-called Crackas With Attitude allegedly obtained personal data about 3,000 government employees, most apparently in the field of law enforcement.

Regulators in Beijing are postponing plans to loosen controls on China's economy as the country struggles to maintain an acceptable growth rate.

Leaders of China and Taiwan say their first talks in some seven decades will bring long-term benefits, but critics in Taiwan demonstrate against the historic meeting.

The biggest foreign-exchange stockpile in the world had dwindled previously in 2015 with China's central bank selling dollar assets in an attempt to stabilize the financial system.

In a controversial first meeting since China's 1949 revolution, Chinese President Xi Jinping tells Taiwanese counterpart Ma Ying-jeou they are "brothers."

China has overlapping claims with Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei in the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.