Wanxiang -- China's largest auto parts maker -- is currently playing the role of a clever opportunist in the unfolding tragedy of American competitiveness. Can American leaders change the script?
Followers of yoga guru Baba Ramdev thronged to New Delhi in large numbers to campaign against graft. But many appeared to have turned up mainly to chat, smoke, read or even sleep.
With most of Japan's biggest medal hopes having already competed, JRT takes a look at which athletes stand to make the most bonus bucks for their performances in London.
Former Prime Minister Lee Lee Kuan Yew appeared at Singapore's annual National Day Parade Thursday, clapping to national anthems and putting to rest speculation that he had died.
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With China's latest numbers showing exports at a near standstill and import growth anemic, Asia's trade slowdown isn't abating and could be getting worse—stifling the region's already fragile growth.
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Yet more signs that China's attempts to kick-start growth aren't working and fresh evidence of weakness in the crucial export sector are putting pressure on Beijing to move more aggressively.
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China's July exports were hurt by a big drop in business with the European Union—but some of the blame also goes to a long-term deterioration in China's export competitiveness.
Blue-chip conglomerate Swire Pacific said its first-half net profit fell 65%, dragged down by losses at affiliate Cathay Pacific Airways.
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Wison Group, a private Chinese engineering company, has submitted a listing application to Hong Kong's stock exchange for a planned $300 million-$500 million initial public offering in the city.
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China's Cnooc said it plans to defend its $15 billion proposed buyout of Canadian oil producer Nexen before U.S. regulators.
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HTC has failed to fend off Apple and Samsung Electronics, pushing its revenue and market share down sharply and giving investors cause to worry there won't be room in the market for the smartphone maker.
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A123 Systems, a maker of advanced batteries for electric vehicles, is being rescued through a bailout from a Chinese auto-parts company.
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Yuan borrowing costs for banks in Hong Kong have risen sharply for the second time in just over a month, as a spate of issuances of dim-sum bonds is draining yuan from circulation in the city.
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Discover Financial Services and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China said the Chinese lender will be the first to issue Diners Club's cards in China, in an effort to tap the increasing flow of wealthy Chinese spending their money abroad.
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Beijing-based China CNR said it secured a small but important components order from Germany's Siemens that represents a rare Chinese foothold in the Western market for high-speed trains.
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While America struggles over a recovery with few jobs, China is set for a recovery with shrinking profits. In a raft of negative data for China's economy in July, it's falling growth in industrial output that will get most attention.
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Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo was briefly unavailable Thursday afternoon, even as a closely watched murder trial of a former Communist Party official's wife was taking place.
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Filmmaker James Cameron, in an interview, says he believes demand in China will spur the movie industry's shift to 3-D, and create a market for a new generation of gadgets for 3-D viewing.
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Shares in New York Stock Exchange-listed Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. dropped 9.2% Tuesday after a short-seller accused the company of running a multi-level marketing operation in China, where such activities are illegal.
Australian stocks hit a three-month high as Asian markets advanced on signs central banks may take more action to boost the global economy.
China Vanke, China's largest property developer by sales, said a decline in new housing construction may continue in the second half of the year.
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Jiang Chaoliang, chairman of Agricultural Bank of China, one of the country's four major state-controlled banks, on big banks' role in the current complex economic environment.
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After targeting U.S.-listed Chinese stocks, a couple of reports from short sellers take on a Hong Kong-listed stock and a U.S. company that does much of its business in China.
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China's Jiangling Motors, which is 30%-owned by Ford Motor, will acquire Taiyuan Changan Heavy Truck Co., marking the U.S. car maker's first entry into the world's largest heavy-truck market.
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