Crude oil prices advanced in Asia Thursday after a private survey showed that Chinese factory activity in January grew at its fastest pace in two years.
Growth in China's factory sector hit a two-year high in January, a preliminary private survey showed Thursday, as manufacturers received more orders.
China isn't new to the No. 1 spot as the biggest source of cyberattacks, but it had never originated such an overwhelming majority of them.
The world’s biggest semiconductor buyer in 2012 was Samsung Electronics (KRX:005930), which bypassed Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Gartner said.
Several of China's cities continue to register hazardous toxic air pollutant levels. But what is it like to live in these conditions?
Apple is planning two iPhone models for this year, both of them featuring a 4-inch screen and in-cell touch technology.
North Korea has reacted sharply to Tuesday’s U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Pyongyang’s December rocket launch and expanded existing U.N. sanctions.
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.