IBT Staff Reporter

Despite 15 years of being in China's care, many in Hong Kong still prefer to keep the mainland at arm's length, especially on issues of identity and education.

New legal developments in China’s largest recent political scandal show that the government is moving ahead with efforts to bring Bo Xilai's inner circle to justice.

Differences on a wide range of major international issues are revealing tensions between Beijing and Washington, as well as mutual concerns that the other is playing dirty.

Former U.S. intel chief Michael Hayden talks about the known-unknowns of an attack on Iran, questioning whether Israel had the ability to take unilateral action against Tehran.

"Drive A Tank" is a company you probably have never heard of but suffice it to say that it is a strange place in a rural patch of Minnesota offering the rare chance to take an armored vehicle for a spin. It's not Main Street in a Corvette Stingray -- but in some ways it's just as good.

North Korean and Japanese officials meet for the first time in four years, but solutions to core issues blocking normal diplomatic relations remain far off.

A surge in orders for weapons, most of which from developing nations, has turned into a boon for U.S. companies -- and they have the Saudis to thank more than anybody else.

The Egyptian president courts investment and talks to China's leaders about the biggest issue troubling the Arab world today -- and about what China can do to solve it

German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced support for Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann on Sunday, saying she welcomed his warnings about the handling of the euro zone debt crisis and saw his influence within the European Central Bank as positive.

Apple Inc scored a sweeping legal victory over Samsung on Friday as a U.S. jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the hugely popular iPhone and iPad and awarded the U.S. company $1.05 billion in damages.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' latest report reveals that speaking truth to power, or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, still costs hundreds of journalists their lives.

France, Turkey and the U.S. are mulling the possibility of creating a limited no-fly zone over part of Syria.

Research groups say Israel may only suffer a 5 percent blow to GDP, but estimating the full cost of a war is a notoriously inaccurate undertaking.

Local governments in China are getting ready for major stimulus spending worth as much as 1.1 trillion dollars, despite warnings about the possibly detrimental effects.

Kim Jong-un's regime may not prove to be more moderate than its predecessors, and could soon be an even bigger headache. A nuclear one.

What could Israel use in a strike against Iran? How would Iran defend itself, and what could it do afterwards?

Actual intervention to secure Syria's chemical and biological weapons could be a messy and complex process.

Surface to air missiles could give a big boost to the Free Syrian Army, but introducing the weapons runs the risk of delivering them into the hands of terrorists as well.

The verdict is out. The wife of disgraced Chinese political heavyweight Bo Xilai gets death (but not really) for the murder of Neil Heywood

ZeekRewards and Zeekler have been shut down, but the consequences and fallout is far from over.

Ten Japanese nationalists bring their flags to the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands only a few days after 14 Chinese nationalists from Hong Kong do the same.

The regime's newfound zeal for bilateral trade with China may reveal that new economic reforms are in the pipeline. But it also risks letting more North Koreans see that things outside are way, way better

The move may help to deflate current anger, but there remains plenty for the nationalistic-minded in East Asia to be upset about.

The world's third-largest employer suffered a damaged reputation in the wake of its mismanagement of security in London, but it may keep growing all the same. It has always done so.

A whiff of change from the world's most mysterious regime?

No end to headaches over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program, even among the closest of allies.

Taxpayer money is sent to help save the troubled Japanese utility, but that sum won't be coming back for the foreseeable future.

How easy is it to pick on a 16-year-old girl for cheating?

Japan's Ministry of Defense warns about the growing influence of the Chinese military on Beijing's regional diplomacy.