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A World Trade Organization panel ruled Monday that China had discriminated against U.S. bank card suppliers in favor of a state-owned enterprise, a decision U.S. card issuers hope could level the playing field and open up new opportunities to China's $1 trillion electronic payments market.

Chances are you’ve generated some revenue for Active Network (Nasdaq: ACTV), the San Diego-based cloud computer services software developer without knowing it.

It may be a sailing piece of archaeology, but China's new treasure ship will be full of symbolic meaning for a country looking for maritime prestige.

Taliban militants have threatened aid workers trying to administer the polio vaccine in Pakistan, putting the lives of 250,000 children in the remote regions of South and North Waziristan at immediate risk.

According to the data, the richest 13 towns in Australia are all in Western Australia, an area which has experienced a huge boom in mining owing mostly to China's demand for natural resources.

Not much is clear about Tony Blair's new role in South Sudan: Is it humanitarian or an investment? Can he change negative policies or will be grow Juba's stalled economy?

The International Monetary Fund on Monday cut its global growth forecast and warned that the outlook could dim further if policymakers in Europe do not act with enough force and speed to quell their region's debt crisis.

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is expected to report stronger second-quarter profit as the world's largest soft-drink maker tries to offset higher commodity prices and currency headwinds by expanding aggressively into key international markets.

China weighed in on Monday with a heavy dose of sarcasm regarding the recent controversy over U.S. Olympics team blazers, suggesting that perhaps members of congress should be banned from wearing anything or using any product that has been manufactured abroad.

Using equipment supplied by Chinese electronics giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE corporation, the People's Liberation Army and the government have back door access to a vast majority of the world's electronic information, including sensitive military and intelligence data, Michael Maloof claims.

U.S. stock index futures point to lower opening Monday as investor sentiment was dragged down by worries of global economic growth continuing to falter.

Asian stock markets mostly advanced Monday on speculation of further stimulus measures from China after Premier Wen Jiabao warned Sunday that the recovery in the world’s second largest economy was not stable.

Most European markets fell Monday as investors continued to have concerns about the faltering global economy and mounting debt crisis in the euro zone.

Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex and NSE's Nifty on Monday, opened flat, and are hovering between the red and the green, signaling the volatility, as the market awaits June inflation figures.

Just a few days after a Chinese e-commerce platform surprised the tech world by accepting preorders for the next generation Apple iPhone, aka iPhone 5, another report from Asia surfaced Saturday, saying that production of the highly anticipated smartphone has already begun and is expected to launch this fall.

Asian markets were rose Monday as investors are hoping that China will soon announce stimulus measures to regain the economic growth momentum.

Chinese navy ships were able to free a stranded vessel in disputed waters near the Philippines Sunday, avoiding a potential standoff between the two countries, which have both made conflicting territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Saudi Arabia Saturday slammed the comments by Russia's human rights envoy, who had expressed great concern about the situation in the Gulf Kingdom, and condemned an unjustified interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs, state media Saudi Press Agency reported.

A Chinese warship, which ran aground in disputed waters close to the Philippine coast while on a security patrol, extricated itself Sunday and was heading home, averting fears of another maritime standoff between Beijing and Manila in the South China Sea.

The next generation iPhone will be released in the fall, according to a Japanese blog that correctly predicted the iPhone 4S's release late in 2011.

La Jolla Playhouse on Thursday set off a social-media firestorm over the casting of its upcoming production of The Nightingale. Although the Hans Christian Andersen tale is set in Feudal China, the cast contains few Asian actors.