CHINA

After years of poor results, Alibaba is eager to return Yahoo China to its American parent. Step One is halting email services.

A Chinese Internet security firm is looking for a candidate to "research and study pornographic videos and images" as their job.

It's become accepted for bands playing at funerals in China to perform popular music, including of the extremely non-funereal kind.

Forty percent of H7N9 bird flu victims had no contact with poultry. How did they get the disease?

While the advance of democracy is stalling, public support for democracy is also falling across the developing world.

China forbids its media from using unauthorized sources, including online content.

Authorities have clear images of the two possible suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 180.

Foreign direct investments, or FDI, to China rise 1.44 percent for Q1 of 2013 annually.

China’s control over the value of its currency could soon be a little less strict, according to a top central bank official.

Counterfeit goods account for about 2 percent of world trade, and 67 percent of that is from China.

All three had been spectators at the city's 117th marathon.

Apple was named among 198 companies under investigation by China for distributing pornographic material on Chinese Internet.

A Chinese student who witnessed the attack reacts on Chinese media.

Lu Lingzi, a Chinese graduate student at Boston University, was identified as the third victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.

The world's second-largest food and beverage company is expected to report a profit gain, despite higher costs.

No sane Western journalist would write about single women over 27 by calling them "leftovers." In China, that's perfectly all right.

Brazil inked a deal with South African defense and aerospace company Paramount Group to purchase armored vehicles for Rio de Janeiro, strengthening BRICS trade.

Google Fiber has been put to shame by a new Sony-owned ISP based in Japan, which offers 2 Gbps download speeds for $51 a month.

Chinese students are known to be competitive, but murder may be one step too far.

In the wake of the explosions, the Chinese ask why their government can't behave like the U.S.

An arrest in the Boston Marathon bombings has either already taken place or is "imminent," Boston television station WCVB reports: