IBT Staff Reporter

The public absence of key officials breeds rumor in China, where transparency at the top is scant and netizens are quick to throw out scenarios.

Sep 10, 2012

China's factories ran at their slowest rate for 39 months in August while a double-digit rise in fixed asset investment showed that infrastructure spending remained key to economic growth.

Sep 09, 2012

Proxy groups supported by Iran in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories gathered in Isfahan to reaffirm their struggle against Israel and the West. On Syria, though, they were less than enthusiastic.

Sep 06, 2012

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.

Sep 06, 2012

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.

Sep 05, 2012

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.

Sep 04, 2012

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.

Sep 04, 2012

"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.

Aug 31, 2012

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.

Aug 29, 2012

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.

Aug 29, 2012

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

Aug 28, 2012

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.

Aug 26, 2012

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.

Aug 24, 2012

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.

Aug 24, 2012

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

Aug 24, 2012

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.

Aug 24, 2012

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.

Aug 23, 2012

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.

Aug 22, 2012

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

Aug 22, 2012

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

Aug 21, 2012

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.

Aug 20, 2012

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

Aug 19, 2012

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

Aug 19, 2012

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.

Aug 19, 2012

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

Aug 17, 2012

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

Aug 17, 2012

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.

Aug 06, 2012

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

Aug 03, 2012

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

Aug 01, 2012