Taiwan’s billionaire business mogul Samuel Lin has put up over $100 million of his personal fortune to establish a grant foundation that will award what are being referred to as the “Asian Nobel prizes.”
The 40-day spring travel rush is estimated to break China's travel records. Millions of early travelers flooded train stations this past weekend.
Even modest weight gain can prompt some patients to stop taking their pills.
Apple's cheap, low-cost iPhone, allegedly set to release later this year, is said to look like "a cross between the iPhone 5, fifth-generation iPod Touch and the iPod Classic."
The military will boost the force assigned to fighting cyberattacks to 4,900 from only 900 now.
Shares of prominent video game console manufacturers surged after the Chinese newspaper China Daily reported that officials in the Ministry of Culture are reconsidering a 12-year ban on the sale of video game consoles.
When Yahoo reports fourth-quarter results late Mon., investors expect an improvement but wonder if the new CEO is doing enough.
Japan will boost its military headcount, the biggest increase in two decades, in order to increase surveillance of disputed waters.
Profits of Chinese industrial companies rose 17.3 percent in December from a year earlier to 895.2 billion yuan ($143.91 billion).
Here's your handy earnings-report watchlist for this week -- a week that should offer more insight into the health of U.S. companies.
North Korea ramped up its warlike bluster over U.N. sanctions Sunday, threatening strong retaliation, state media reported.
A false report was made of an employee strike in Beijing. Will Foxconn ever be able to rehabilitate its image?
"Mythbusters" misused a Chinese popcorn machine and called it a "popcorn cannon." Here are some other unusual Chinese creations.
When it comes to manufacturing, China is no longer a no-brainer.
America's second-largest auto company will show higher income despite slightly lower revenue, according to analysts' estimates.
Rumors are swirling about three new iPhone models, but a new report says the large "iPhone Math" won't release until at least 2014.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), said its year-old commitment to improving conditions for workers at Chinese contract manufacturers has seen results.
Several officials in Chongqing have been fired after a string of sex tapes appeared. This is not a first for a city where scandal has broken out before.
North Korea issued another warning Friday, this time to South Korea against participating in the U.N. sanctions. This follows warnings to the U.S. that it will go ahead with high level nuclear and missile tests after the U.N. expanded the sanctions over a rocket launch last month.
A special envoy from Japan met China’s Communist Party chief and expressed the hope that the tensions between the two countries could be resolved.
U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Friday ahead of the Census Bureau's new home sales data. Asian Markets traded in the red, while European shares traded higher.
The leaders of the Hilton and Marriott hotel chains used the 2013 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to promote “smart visas.”