CHINA

Seven months after Elliott Management bid for BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC), it bid for Compuware Corp. (NASDAQ:CPWR). Why?

Asian stock markets advanced Wednesday on hopes that the U.S. lawmakers will soon arrive at a consensus to avoid the "fiscal cliff” and the Japanese Central Bank will add to economic stimulus buoyed sentiment.

Hong Kong is one of the world's wealthiest cities, but its poorest inhabitants are resorting to extremes to make housing affordable.

The Mayan calendar (when interpreted right) predicts (if you ask the right person) that the word will end in 2012 (“this is not a hoax”).

A fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh last month, killing more than hundred workers and injuring even more, was an act of sabotage, a Bangladeshi government committee investigating the incident has found.

Asian stock markets advanced Tuesday as sentiment turned positive overnight following indications that negotiations over the U.S. fiscal cliff are progressing.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into China fell in November in comparison to the same period last year, as investors, who are concerned about the global economic condition cut down on spending.

China's government isn't afraid of the end of the world in 2012. It's afraid of the cults that believe in it, and cracking down hard on them.

After a stabbing at school injured 23 students and one adult, just hours before the Newtown shooting in he U.S., Chinese experts weigh in on the reasons -- and offer ideas for America too.

Despite going up against scalpers and imposters, Apple still managed to sell more than 2 million iPhone 5 units to Chinese customers in just two days.

Crude oil prices advanced and hovered below $87 a barrel during the Asian trading hours Monday as a bright economic outlook for China continued to offer support.

U.S. consumers make purchasing decisions every day that endorse with their money the circumstances factory workers face in other parts of the world.

The election result has potentially far reaching implications for the world’s third-largest economy and its relations with China.

Japanese voters were casting ballots in the parliamentary elections Sunday, which is expected to return to power former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), defeating current Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Democratic Party (DPJ) after just three years in office.

China has submitted to the U.N., a detailed report of its claims to a disputed region in the East China Sea extending beyond its exclusive economic zone recognized by the U.N.

U.S. and Chinese officials have been quick dismiss bilateral problems and are highlighting the potential and necessity of greater cooperation and trust. The pelting of the U.S. Ambassador's diplomatic vehicle has been quickly sidelined.

However bad the alleged Mayan Apocalypse gets, one farmer in China believes he has the perfect solution to any problem. Liu Qiyuan created seven so-called survival pods designed to weather all eventualities, including earthquakes, tsunamis, and even apocalypses.

In what seems to be a morbid trend in China's recent history, another mentally ill person violently attacked school children with a knife.

Xi Jinping, China's new commander in chief, ordered the People's Liberation Army to increase its "real combat" awareness.

Most of the Asian markets rose in the week as investor sentiment was lifted on hopes that the policymakers in Japan would soon announce stimulus measures to boost the growth of the world’s third-largest economy.

The state-owned newspaper China Daily is now printing its Africa Weekly, and its editors aren't shy about telling the West how they really feel.