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ConocoPhillips, the third largest energy company in the U.S., is expected to post higher fourth-quarter earnings as soaring crude oil prices offset big losses anticipated in the company's refining operations.

Upscale leather goods maker Coach Inc posted higher-than-expected earnings and sales for the holiday quarter, helped by its growing favor with male shoppers, and its shares rose more than 6 percent.

Human rights groups claim that Chinese security forces fired upon dozens of Tibetan protesters during a protest march.

Xi is largely an unknown entity to U.S. officials.

Chinese communities across the world celebrated the first day of the lunar year and of their New Year, on Monday, Jan. 23.

With the beginning of the luckiest Chinese lunar year, the year of the Dragon, China expects a dragon baby boom.

While global financial markets have calmed down in the waning days of 2011 and early 2012, debt problems in eurozone, China's real estate problem and oil price pressure are three big concerns which haunt the near-term outlook according to a leading macro-economy guidance organization.

Japan's Nikkei average hit its highest level in nearly three months Tuesday on hopes that a Greek debt deal will still be reached even after European finance ministers rejected an offer by Greece's private creditors.

U.S. intelligence agencies have unique capabilities that can help protect American companies from cyber espionage and attack, but it will probably take a crisis to change laws to allow that type of cooperation, a former spy chief said on Monday.

Gold rose 1 percent on Monday to a six-week high, boosted by technical buying and as the euro rallied ahead of the outcome of a euro zone meeting on Greek debt restructuring.

European stocks hit their highest close since early August on Monday, with euro zone banks gaining sharply following a report that France and Germany were calling for a relaxation of global bank capital rules to prevent a credit crunch.

Is a proposed Napoleon Bonaparte-themed amusement park Napoleonland the answer to France's economic woes?

No Chinese festival can compare with the Lunar New Year. The Chinese new year celebrations officially began on Monday and millions of Chinese worldwide welcomed the year of the dragon by kicking off the Spring Festival, which will continue for about two weeks until the Lantern Festival on February 6.

The ethnic Chinese population of Indonesia has long existed as a despised and envied minority group.

Which countries buy the most Iranian oil and what does it mean for the international community's attempt to stop Iran's nuclear program?

With a taste for Jimmy Choo shoes and Hermes handbags, Choice Okoro's idea of shopping is a world away from her mother's.

Billionaire Warren Buffett rang in the Year of the Dragon with a musical number on his ukulele on Chinese TV Monday.

If you look at the back of any iPhone, you're likely to come across the words, Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China. Indeed, from the very first generation iPhone to the latest iPhone 4S, the world's most popular smartphone have come to be made in China and not in the U.S. An analysis, based on interviews with Apple's former and current executives and employees at Apple's supply chains and manufacturing experts by The New York Times, has now revealed why the wo...

Air pollution and other environmental issues are of grave concern to many Chinese.

A man in southwest China died of bird flu on Sunday after three days of intensive care treatment in hospital, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry of Health as saying.

The European Union approved an oil embargo against Iran in hopes that new economic pressures will convince the country to abandon its nuclear program.