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But in the long term, Hong Kong may need to up its game before the FTZ catches up.

Output in China's manufacturing sector improved and foreign demand increased for the first time in six months, in September.

Kenya laid out reasons why travel warnings would only make a bad situation worse, but that didn’t stop the U.S. from issuing one.

China’s new trade zone will be a test ground for financial, trade and investment reforms. But doubts remain.

Chinese police rescue 92 children and detains more than 300 suspects in a crackdown on a massive child trafficking gang.

The focus next week will be on the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report, the ECB and BoJ interest-rate decisions, Japan’s Tankan survey and sales-tax hike, and China’s PMI data.

With five satellites in orbit, Nigeria is becoming a force through its growing space program.

The world’s primary jade source is also home to 500,000 heroin-addicted miners, most of them HIV-positive.

The vast desert country hopes to see output of 300,000 barrels per day by 2015.

The Miss World 2013 pageant, to be held Saturday, had to be moved from Jakarta to Bali due to concerns about protests and attacks by Islamic extremists.

Nineteen Chinese provincial governments collected $2.7 billion in baby fines last year.

A report on consumption and spending trends will be watched for an understanding of the nation's economic health.

China is currently sitting on a local government debt time bomb and the clock is ticking.

In its first auction on Thursday, Christie’s sold goods worth $25 million.

John Kerry met with Iran's foreign minister at the U.N. for an informal chat -- the highest-level meeting between the nations since 1980.

The draft "requires" Syria to give up chemical weapons but has no real teeth.

Health officials are reporting a wave of hornet attacks that have killed at least 18 people in central China.

Shanghai home prices that were already on the climb this year just leaped 30% in two weeks on the free trade zone news.

China further expands its footprint in Africa via a deal to develop Ugandan oil reserves.

Are humans the same as bony fishes? A 419 million-year-old fossil of a fish's jawbones are similar to what's seen in modern vertebrates.

President Rouhani said he was authorized by Iran’s Supreme Leader to reach an agreement with the West over Tehran’s nuclear program.