Iran's oil minister admitted that the country's revenues are taking a beating, but remained defiant in the face of a weakened economy.
The mass exodus over Chinese New Year, with about 3.4 billion trips, swamps train stations.
Global sales of consumer electronics may rise about 4 percent in 2013 to $1.11 trillion, the Consumer Electronics Association estimated.
Journalists at a major Chinese newspaper have gone on strike to protest against censorship by the authorities.
The stock index futures pointed to a flat open as investors worried that the sluggish economic growth would affect earnings.
Crude oil prices slightly declined and hovered below $93 a barrel in Asian trading Monday.
The Syrian president's initiative has drawn scorn from both domestic opponents and foreign powers.
Critics say President Obama's "Cash for Clunkers" program, designed to stimulate the economy in 2009, was an environmental disaster.
Asian markets rose as investor sentiment was lifted after the Congress passed a bill intended to avert the fiscal cliff.
China has implemented rules to circumvent online anonymity, which human-rights activists have criticized as a crackdown on political dissent.
Most of the demand for silver fabrication next year will come from industrial customers.
The U.S. trade deficit likely narrowed in November, and the euro-zone recession probably worsened at the end of last year.
Government officials angered journalists at a Guangdong paper when it replaced an article with a propaganda-laced Communist Party piece.
After last month's school stabbing in Henan province, another unstable man goes on a knife-wielding spree -- but this time it's fatal.
Cambodia will pay $11.2 billion for a 249-mile railway, a port and a steel factory.
U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Friday ahead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' nonfarm payrolls report.
China's service activity expanded in December but at a slower pace compared to that in the previous month, according to the HSBC Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) released Friday.
Is ecotourism a ticket out of poverty and the key to preserving our environment? The UN thinks so.
New regulations are attempting to curb the academic corruption that has been rampant in China's higher-learning institutions.
A heavy-drinking culture is affecting China's armed forces, the world's biggest military.
London-based Unilever PLC is selling its Skippy peanut butter business to Hormel Foods Corp. for $700 million.
The military has contradicted the central government of Myanmar, admitting to the use of airstrikes against KIA rebels in Kachin.