CHINA

China's New Year has women looking for a man to bring home -- temporarily. And that's where capitalism and the Internet really come together.

Now home in California, Sophie Schmidt published some notes on North Korea under a headline, “It might not get weirder than this.”

The U.S. crude oil production boom could mean not just the end of OPEC oil imports, but a strategic threat to China's growing economy.

A strict new policy limiting toilet time at a factory led to a hostage situation in Shanghai.

A Chinese military officer warned Australia not to side with the U.S. and Japan if the East China Sea conflict leads to war.

The Philippines has said that it will seek international arbitration to challenge Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea to reach a “durable solution” to the dispute.

China’s Gini coefficient, an income inequality gauge, is lower than 10 years ago. Is China’s much talked-about income gap actually lessening?

Russia's defense industry is growing, thanks mostly to increasing sales in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Following Google CEO Eric Schmidt's visit to North Korea, several bloggers have revealed the DPRK's labor camps can be clearly seen from space.

The BoJ will likely expand asset purchases and state a new inflation goal. Here's your handy watchlist for this week.

China's Internet users often weigh in on politics around the world. On Monday, the chatter was about Obama, and the Bible used to swear him in.

China’s central bank has moved toward putting itself more in line with the U.S. Fed in how it manages banking-system liquidity.

For the first time, foreign visitors to North Korea are being allowed to bring their own mobile phones into the country.

Crude oil prices declined during the Asian trading hours Monday after surging to a four-month high last week.

Japanese officials have said warning shots would be fired at foreign aircrafts violating its airspace, after an incident last week saw Beijing and Tokyo scramble fighter planes over airspace incursions near a set of hotly contested islands in the East China Sea.

High demand for ivory in Asia has spurred an increase in elephant poaching in Africa, endangering vulnerable communities.

Rio Tinto Group, the mining giant that just admitted that it’s worth $14 billion less than previously stated, is at a crossroads.

Most of the Asian markets rose as investor confidence was lifted amid the encouraging economic indicators from the U.S. and China.

Economists continue to be at odds over the reliability of official Chinese data, but Baring Asset’s Khiem Do says they are "OK."

Seattle coffee giant Starbucks is expected to report a 14 percent gain in earnings per share on an 11 percent sales increase.

Sports journalism is under scrutiny this week, following the Manti Te'o hoax and Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey.