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New York-traded shares of China Eastern Airlines plunged 4.42 percent and those of China Southern Airlines plunged 2.47 percent in morning trading on tensions between North and South Korea.

The world's largest exchange traded gold fund - the New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore-listed SPDR Gold Trust - added 15 tonnes to its holdings on Friday, the largest one-day addition since the height of the Greek deficit crisis in May.

Japan's Sharp Corp. plans to expand its smartphone LCD panel production capacity spurred by Apple's plan to buy a major chunk of the LCD screens for its iPhone.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of social networking site Facebook on Monday toured the offices of China's top search engine Baidu sparking off speculation that he is looking for opportunities in the world’s most populous country and the largest Internet market.

After being crowned Time Person of the Year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in China and is reported to have visited China's top search engine, Baidu's office.

China would invest about $20 billion in Pakistan in the next 3 years, according to a communiqué issued by the two countries on Sunday.

The South Korean military has begun live-firing exercises on Yeonpyeong Island, the country's defense ministry announced on Monday. Local residents were ordered to move into air raid bunkers ahead of the drills. The move comes at the time of heightened tensions in the region and constant threats of retaliation from the North.

Apple’s iPhone has been widening US trade deficit with China even though it is entirely designed and owned by an American company, says a study.

Fox TV and Will Smith production house in talks to make a crime thriller based in China

The President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir stashed away as much as $9-billion of his nation's in foreign bank accounts, according to US diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks.

A federal jury has found two former engineers of Wyko Tire Technology Inc., guilty of stealing trade secrets from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to a record low in November as the country is set to witness the fastest growth in more than two decades.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: InterMune, YRC Worldwide, Take-Two Interactive Software, Oracle, China Sunergy, Veeco Instruments, Research In Motion, China MediaExpress Holdings, Powerwave Technologies, and MIPS Technologies.

Auriga USA upgraded Spreadtrum Communications, saying that the company’s gross margin concerns will be offset market share gains.

North Korea on Friday warned of 'deadlier attacks' if the South decides to go ahead with live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea. Officials of the communist state maintained that the attacks this time would be more lethal than that of last month's artillery shelling that killed two South Korean soldiers and two civilians.

Johnson at Cornell University has launched an exclusive Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) which will facilitate emerging markets research and education by bringing together preeminent practitioners and academics under its umbrella.

China is turning out to be one of the most popular MBA destinations among international students, according to a report by Bloomberg Businessweek magazine.

India's largest two-wheeler maker Hero Group has ended its 26 year old joint venture with the Japanese Honda Motor Co, as the Indian partner agreed to buy out its Japanese counterpart for an undisclosed sum.

It's a rather new Cold War. New rhetoric, spiraling conflicts and opposing fronts have returned to the panorama of the World. Posing a threat to the region's still fragile peace, a new arms race has begun in the Asia-Pacific.

The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: YRC Worldwide, Take-Two Interactive Software, Oracle, Iconix Brand Group, Rightnow Technologies, Dress Barn, Activision Blizzard, Research In Motion, China MediaExpress Holdings, and OmniVision Technologies.

The new export control policies proposed by the Obama administration may address some previously identified weaknesses but leave many more open, a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said on Thursday