CHINA

HP's chief information officer Randy Mott shown the door as CEO Leo Apotheker shakes things up.

China poses a diplomatic challenge for the United States, said former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Sunday.

Migrant workers broke out into riot after a pregnant migrant worker was manhandled in China's southern province of Guangzhou last week.

Membership for Facebook drops in the U.S., while it grows in markets like Mexico and India.

The year-long SM Town Live Tour, which kicked off in South Korea and went on to Los Angeles, China and Japan, reached France.

We're certainly living in the new abnormal when Jeff Immelt, head of GE, is speaking like the President in a time of heightened political importance and awareness.

More than 200 foreign migrant workers were discovered on a truck bound for the United States.

The new chief executive of bailed out British bank Lloyds Banking Group (NYSE: LYG) is planning to cut another 15,000 jobs, on top of the 28,000 positions the bank has already eliminated since it merged with HBOS in early 2009.

The United States Navy reportedly halted and turned back a North Korean vessel headed for Myanmar (the former Burma) a few weeks ago off the coast of China.

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) computer system was hacked with large and sophisticated cyberattack and confidential data on national economies and finances are at the risk of exposure. The organization did not disclose the nature of the attack.

German luxury carmaker BMW Group will invest 500 million pounds in its UK production network over the next 3 years.

At least 94 were killed as landslides and heavy rains unleash floods in central and southern China on Saturday.

Apple has halted the delivery of iPads for Verizon which were due to be shipped from China, according to various media reports.

Vietnam's navy announced it will conduct live-fire drills in the South China Sea next week

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Micromet, Verigy, Harbin Electric, Zipcar, Lululemon Athletica, and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Diana Containerships, Life Partners Holdings, LM Ericsson Telephone, SIRIUS XM Radio, Research In Motion, and Vodafone Group.

China's constant search for natural resources to fuel its burgeoning economy has driven Beijing's helmsmen to the far reaches of Africa, South America and the embattled Middle East.

A proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site is facing threat to its green cover which may also lead to extinction of the Amur tiger with the shrinking habitat in Russia’s Primorsky Province.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Yongye International, Global Sources, Sky-mobi, School Specialty, and Pantry. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Gladstone Commercial, Diodes, Wi-LAN, SeaChange International, and Pharmasset.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde takes her campaign to become the IMF head to social networking sites Twitter and Facebook.

Citibank becomes the latest victim in the large-scale corporation hacking trend of 2011.

Christine Lagarde, who has been touring prominent developing nations to solidify her efforts to become the next chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is apparently a shoe-in for the post, according to a rival for the top job.