Pollution incident near Shanghai highlights the difficulties that Apple and others face in policing their vast international supply chains

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s current visit to the US provides an ideal opportunity to reinvigorate the long-standing bilateral alliance in the face of an increasingly aggressive China and persistent tensions on the Korean peninsula. Indeed, the partnership could be as significant in the future as it has ever been in the past.

Authorities will double stamp duty on properties over HK$2m, introduce a duty on other homes, and cap mortgages for car parking spaces

South Korea’s incoming president, Park Geun-hye, takes over a country that has been a global role model for economic development. But, with the economy slowing and growth decoupled from ordinary citizens' fate, it has become a model in need of renewal.

Renminbi-sterling currency swap with People’s Bank of China could make it easier to finance trade and direct investment between the two countries

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SHANGHAI stocks continued the fall today and the key index posted the biggest weekly loss in 21 months amid profit taking and growing uncertainty over monetary policies.

The Chinese city moves to preserve its old buildings

RECOVERY in the housing sector continued to gather pace across the country with more than 70 percent of major Chinese cities recording monthly and yearly gains in January, the National Bureau of Statistics said today.

HOME prices kept rising at a quicker pace in major Chinese cities last month, underscoring the necessity of government measures to cool the property market, data showed today.

The city is starting to move beyond a 30-year love affair with modernity and preserve what remains of its architectural heritage

SHANGHAI stocks vacillated this morning as property developers gained on a rise in home prices while coal mines and automakers languished.

OIL prices plunged for a second day yesterday, raising hopes that a relentless rise in US gasoline prices may slow or reverse at least temporarily.

US stocks continued a two-day slide yesterday on weak economic data and concern about the Federal Reserve's resolve to keep juicing the economy.

Chinese coupon provider Velo and group buying website Didatuan.com announced via internal emails that the two companies have completed a formal integration. After the integration, a new company will be established and maintain the Velo brand. Song Zhon…

Corporatism – an economic system in which people are organized into professional or industrial bodies that serve as government organs – shaped many countries' economic policies until the late twentieth century. Now, China – which has abandoned socialism, but without yet embracing free markets – has adopted a similar system.

Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented. But greater Asian unity may be arising by the backdoor, in the form of new and impressive infrastructure links.

A woman with a full shopping cart heads to the checkout at a Wal-Mart store in Chicago. Wal-Mart Stores Inc offered a weak business outlook yesterday as new economic challenges for its lowincome shoppers start to take a toll. The world's largest retail…