CHINA

China has deployed a team of 60 people after President Xi Jinping demanded an inquiry into the accident, which is being counted among China's worst maritime disasters.

The bus, which belonged to a tour company from Lhasa, was carrying 19 people at the time of the accident.

PBOC economists were cautiously optimistic on the outlook.

A collection of about 2,000 posters from the World War I era, considered to be one of the world's finest and amassed over more than a decade by a U.S. Army officer, will be sold at auction later this month, Guernsey's auction house said Tuesday.

Xiaomi Redmi 2A was announced in March this year for $100, but now the price has been slashed to $80.

Fiji has become a popular place for China's super wealthy to buy private islands because it's "not expensive."

Evidence of collaboration with the Chinese government, but does that mean a back door to encryption?

A new column on Xinhua cites popular tweets from the West to gauge conversation about China -- but is it accurate?

The world's largest private-sector coal company, Peabody Energy, is preparing to cut 250 jobs across the United States.

Ties between Russia and China are "a key factor for stability, security, [and] the establishment of polycentric world," a top Russian politician said.

Chinese state media outlets have often decried Japanese animation and comics as pornographic and violent.

The Chinese Football Association has described Hong Kong's team as being made up of people “with black skin, yellow skin and white skin.”

Nearly 10 million students work hard -- and a few cheat -- to pass China's annual university entrance exam, which critics say kills imagination.

The four killed in Suning county included at least one suspect, China Central Television said, giving few other details.

The move will reduce staff strength at Europe's biggest bank by at least 22,000, and is part of a broader cost-cutting process.

Infrastructure and mining projects that damage local resources are one example of exploitation, Free Tibet said.

Both China and Vietnam are sending cruise ships of tourists to the disputed South China Sea waters in a bid to solidify sovereignty over the area.

The U.S. is still hammering out a strategy to combat ISIS, President Barack Obama said during a news conference Monday from the G-7 summit in Germany.

MERS is a viral respiratory illness spread through close contact with infected patients, usually through coughing or sneezing.

Singapore and Malaysia's Sabah state on Monday observed a day of remembrance for those killed in the quake that hit Mount Kinabalu early Friday.

China's trade grew 3.4 percent in 2014, missing the government's growth target of 7.5 percent by more than half.