Wenwen Meng

Milestones in the progress of Chinese women's tennis after Li Na reached the final of the Australian Open on Thursday:

China's annual inflation will probably top 6 percent around the middle of 2011 before losing steam in the second half of the year, the Bank of Communications said on Thursday.

China wants to import more to solve its trade imbalances instead of parking windfall revenues in U.S. and euro zone government bonds, the chairman of China's largest lender said on Thursday.

China's largest e-commerce firm Alibaba Group has postponed indefinitely its listing plans for its subsidiaries, said a company source on Thursday.

A battle between large supermarket operators to tap into Southeast Asia's growing consumer wealth could trigger more acquisitions, with Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines seen as the next hot spots.

U.S. lawmakers plan to reintroduce China currency legislation that was overwhelmingly approved last year by the House of Representative but failed to become law, congressional aides said on Wednesday.

China's annual economic growth is expected to ease to about 9 percent in the first quarter while consumer inflation is projected at 5 percent, according to a government think tank report published in the official Chinese Securities Journal on Thursday.

Belgium's economy minister said on Wednesday that heavy state involvement in emerging market economies is unsustainable, and it urged China to open sectors up to foreign companies.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) fully supports China Mobile's next generation TD-LTE technology and talks are ongoing over a possible iPhone tie up with the carrier, China Mobile's chairman was quoted as saying.

The Mexican economy is getting a helping hand from unlikely allies: Chinese workers whose rising wages are leading more companies to build factories in Mexico.

China's harsh measures to cool its booming property market is having limited impact on prices, property developer SOHO China's (0410.HK) chief executive said, underscoring the government's difficulty to curb credit growth on all fronts.

Japanese mobile social gaming firm Gree Inc said Wednesday it would tie-up with China's Tencent Holdings, giving it access to a market where 120 million people already play mobile games.

Saudi Arabia will boost contract crude sales by 10 percent to Asia's biggest refiner Sinopec this year as the world's top oil exporter cements its share of the world's fastest growing fuel market.

Some Chinese banks have drastically raised interest rates on loans to comply with government orders to rein in credit growth after another lending surge at the start of the year, state media reported on Wednesday.

China's test flight of a prototype stealth fighter will help insulate U.S. weapons spending against deeper cuts sought by deficit hawks and add momentum to efforts by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to redirect precious budget dollars to future threats.

A former Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) engineer has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for providing secret defense information to China, exporting technical military data and other crimes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

The following table shows China's five major state-owned power generating groups' operational results in 2010, as reported by the companies or official media.

Chinese banks finished 2010 in a stronger position than they started, chipping away at their bad debt holdings and beefing up provisions in case their asset quality deteriorates, a new set of official data shows.

Norway reiterated support on Monday for China to have an observer role in Arctic affairs despite a slump in relations since the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident.

Chinese budget carrier Spring Airlines has resumed a long-delayed plan to sell shares publicly in Shanghai to fund expansion, the China Business News reported on Monday, citing unidentified company sources.

Call it the price of success. China is starting to pass on the rising cost of labor and other manufacturing inputs as it restructures its economy, creating a potential new inflation headache for Western countries already grappling with surging commodity prices.

Most of China's wheat-growing areas in the north are suffering from drought with some seeing no rain for more than three months while the second most important wheat province of Shandong is facing its worst drought in a century.

The United States will retain unchallengeable global dominance for at least two decades, a top Chinese official has said in an essay urging his government to find a balance between assertion and restraint.

The United States warned China it would redeploy forces in Asia if Beijing failed to rein in North Korea, an Obama administration official said on Friday, as Pyongyang bowed to Seoul's demands for crisis talks.

China's Guo Jingjing, the most successful female athlete in Olympic diving, has decided to retire, local media reported on Sunday.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world's top lender by market value, will pay about $140 million for 80 percent of Bank of East Asia's U.S. unit, the two companies said on Sunday.

China's Li Na continued her love affair with Melbourne Park, powering past eighth seed Victoria Azarenka 6-3 6-3 to book a spot in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open on Sunday.

Spain's Telefonica and No. 2 Chinese mobile operator China Unicom will deepen their strategic alliance by buying an additional $500 million stake in each other, the Spanish company said on Sunday.

Swiss bank UBS AG's Global Asset Management unit is very upbeat on the Middle East and is also a bit more bullish on opportunities in Europe than others, its head said on Sunday.