The first two weeks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season will be canceled if the lockout is not resolved by October 10, league commissioner David Stern said Tuesday.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dashed hopes on Tuesday that he might make a late leap into the 2012 Republican presidential race in a move that sets up a battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
KFC parent Yum Brands Inc posted a quarterly profit that failed to assuage investor worries about slowing growth in China, its biggest market.
The chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee on Tuesday accused China of widespread cyber economic espionage and said many U.S. firms were afraid to come forward for fear their computers would be the targets of even more attacks.
IMAX is continuing its Far East expansion.
KFC parent Yum Brands Inc posted a quarterly profit that failed to assuage investors worries about slowing growth in China, its most important market.
KFC parent Yum Brands Inc reported a quarterly profit that met Wall Street's expectations, helped by another quarter of strong sales in China.
Three monks have tried to burn themselves to death in the past week – a total of five have done so over the past six months.
South Africa and Zambia have approved the $1.1 billion bid by China's Jinchuan Group for copper and cobalt producer Metorex, bringing closer prospects for the deal to be finalised by November.
The chairman of the House of Representatives intelligence committee on Tuesday accused China of widespread cyber economic espionage and said many U.S. firms were afraid to come forward for fear their computers would be the targets of even more attacks.
Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan visited South Africa on Tuesday, the latest stop in a diplomatic drive into the resource-rich continent whose attention is increasingly fixed on emerging market relationships rather than old commercial ties to Europe.
The U.S. Senate is as mad as you-know-what and it's apparently not going to take it anymore: the Senate Tuesday voted overwhelmingly, 79-19, to approve a procedural measure that speeds the way for a bill designed to put pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate.
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, cancelled a trip to South Africa planned for this week that had put Pretoria in a bind between its biggest trading partner China and one of its modern heroes, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.
Anticipation of Apple's Tuesday unveiling of the iPhone 5 has reached fever pitch, with speculation on everything from form to features running rampant. Chinese state-run carrier China Unicom added to the frenzy this week at the Macworld Asia expo in Beijing by presenting a slideshow that included a segment documenting the evolution of the iPhone.
Although Apple has sent out Let's talk iPhone invitations to the press and it is highly likely that it will announce the release information of iPhone 5 at the Oct. 4 event, people can hardly wait to catch a glimpse of the next generation iPhone.
The Dalai Lama was blocked from visiting South Africa two years ago as well.
A Russian conference is setting out to do what no man has done before: Find Yeti. Yeti, otherwise known as Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch, has titillated explorers for over a century, with sightings of large footprints in mud or snow.
Ten years after lawyers helped forge an agreement to bring China into the World Trade Organization , a step that created opportunities for scores of non-Chinese businesses, foreign attorneys in the country wish they had struck a better deal for themselves.
Uncertainty over Yahoo may have attracted interest from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies as well as from China’s Alibaba Group and Silver Lake Partners.
Global subsidies for fossil fuel consumption are set to reach $660 billion in 2020 unless reforms are passed to effectively eliminate this form of state aid, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
As Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is gearing up towards the release of a new iPhone, presumably called as iPhone 5, a Wall Street analyst said Apple stock could reach $666 next year.
A battered pickup truck pulling up to Huaying Trading's back street office in Goma is about all that remains of Congo's once-bustling resources business as an impending U.S. crackdown on so-called conflict minerals scares most buyers away.
