U.S. trade officials imposed surprisingly low tariffs on Chinese solar panels Tuesday, choosing to tread lightly and avoiding an all-out trade war when addressing local solar companies' complaints of unfair trade practices.
Wednesday's statement didn't explicitly demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down, but it warned that his regime should immediately cease troop movements towards, and end the use of heavy weapons in, population centers, and begin pullback of military concentrations.
A Chinese college student committed suicide on Saturday night, just after leaving a farewell note that would auto-post online hours after her death.
Despite what the stage monologist would have audiences believe, there are serious journalists who have devoted their careers to reporting on conditions in China. One of them, Rob Schmitz, told IBT that Daisey has undermined his and other reporters' work.
The move means that banks in Japan and 10 EU nations have been given a six-month break from being cut off from the US financial system while they work to reduce their dependence on Iranian oil.
Pyongyang officials said such rhetoric may be akin to a declaration of war.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 has had so many rumored release dates there is no real way of knowing when the phone will actually come out, but a new report indicates that Samsung's Greater China president, Kim Young-Ha, is planning on moving the launch forward to April.
Gold traded broadly steady on Wednesday, as a boost from a modestly stronger euro against the dollar partly offset slow consumer demand and an erosion in holdings of the metal in exchange-traded products.
Tobacco-related deaths have nearly tripled in the past decade and big tobacco firms are undermining public efforts that could save millions, a report led by the health campaign group the World Lung Foundation (WLF) said on Wednesday.
Mobile phone users in China have got in their basket of offerings two much-awaited smartphones. Japanese phone manufacturer Sony has just announced the upcoming availability of its first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, Sony Xperia neo L MT25i. And Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has made available its HTC Eternity from today, the first Windows Phone device to officially reach the country.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (NYSE:RDS) signed Wednesday the first-ever production sharing contract with China's state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., or CNPC, as the world's second largest economy seeks to develop its untapped reserves, similar to those that gave rise to the U.S. natural gas boom, with the help of foreign technology.
Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with knowledge of emerging market efforts to find candidates said on Tuesday.
The world's largest television and online retailer QVC Inc. is starting a joint venture with China's national radio broadcaster to enter the world's most populous growing consumer and media market.
Asia shares continued to fall amid lingering worries about China growth. In Japan, shares declined for the first time in six sessions.
Beginning in the fourth quarter of this fiscal year (July), Apple will pay a $2.65 per share dividend.
Gold is expected to reach a new record high of $2,200 per ounce as fears of Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union break-up surge again and with U.S. monetary policy anticipated to remain supportive, according to Capital Economics.
Business confidence in China has climbed up this quarter, although demand has continued to slow according to Capital Economics.
The Hunger Games is set to open in theaters nationwide on Friday, March 23. The stars of the film -- including Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Elizabeth Banks -- have been promoting the premiere of the film around the world. Here are some of the best fashions from the stars of The Hunger Games and their fans.
U.S. asset markets sold off Tuesday as investors interpreted new data from China to mean that country's economy might be slowing down faster than previously thought. Of paramount concern was a government report showing new home prices had recently declined in 45 of 70 major cities, with prices static in 21 other metropolitan areas.
Major indexes across Europe were down Tuesday on negative news regarding an expected slowdown in Chinese economic growth.
The National Development and Reform Commission is raising retail gas prices by 600 yuan ($95) a metric ton, leading to an average pump price hike of 6.8 percent.
India will call upon local airlines to boycott the European Union's carbon-offsetting tax, as an ongoing row over a recently-instated tax on flights in and out of Europe has sparked discontent from several nations and heightend fears of a trade war.
