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While productivity in Japanese factories is the highest in the world, owing to robots and other types of automation, the productivity of Japan’s white-collar workers is the lowest among OECD countries. This disparity, rooted in deep-seated inequality of employment opportunity for women, may now finally receive the attention it needs.

The tainted formula crisis has created new products and markets as anxious mothers look for supplies they can trust to feed their children

Using data collected by the US State Department, this interactive graphic tracks the air quality of five of China’s major cities

The balance-of-payments figures that Chinese authorities released in April should have caused widespread alarm. The data adjusted China’s 2011 investment-income deficit from $26.8 billion to $85.3 billion – a massive revision that casts doubt on the reliability of official statistics and exposes the economy's flawed growth path.

SHANGHAI stocks traded nearly flat this morning as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of tomorrow's release of industrial data.

Defence secretary Chuck Hagel says cyber threats pose an ‘insidious’ danger to the US and other nations and calls for ‘rules of the road’

THE price of oil rose yesterday on indications that the US economy still needs the Federal Reserve to maintain its current stimulus measures.

THE price of oil rose yesterday on indications that the US economy still needs the Federal Reserve to maintain its current stimulus measures.

THE stock market rose yesterday after a pair of lackluster economic reports convinced traders that the US central bank will continue to boost the economy with its stimulus program.

THE stock market rose yesterday after a pair of lackluster economic reports convinced traders that the US central bank will continue to boost the economy with its stimulus program.

AEI reports: The EU’s blustery, faux tough-guy trade commissioner Karel De Gucht is vowing to implement duties of 47% on all Chinese solar panels imported into EU territory. Only problem is that at last count, 18 of the 27 members…

Meng Pu, president for Motorola Greater China, has resigned with the coming of the company's second-round layoff plans in China. According to reports in Chinese local media, Motorola will soon start the second-round layoff in China and the company will…

CHINA said it's studying the possibility of joining the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, a move that comes about a month after the existing 11 members allowed Japan to join the negotiations.

CHINA said it's studying the possibility of joining the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks, a move that comes about a month after the existing 11 members allowed Japan to join the negotiations.

THE biggest briolette-style diamond ever sold at auction, Qianlong period vases and a painting by the modern Chinese artist Zhang Daqian helped lift Christie's International's Hong Kong spring sales.

THE biggest briolette-style diamond ever sold at auction, Qianlong period vases and a painting by the modern Chinese artist Zhang Daqian helped lift Christie's International's Hong Kong spring sales.

CONFIDENCE in the eurozone economy grew by more than expected in May, with hope that the worst of the crisis may be over spreading to countries that have been on its frontline.

CONFIDENCE in the eurozone economy grew by more than expected in May, with hope that the worst of the crisis may be over spreading to countries that have been on its frontline.