A senior aide to Kim Jong-eun has arrived in Beijing at a time when Pyongyang’s nuclear activities and belligerent rhetoric have stirred concerns

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist, has dedicated to dissidents everywhere a heavy-metal video he has made that satirises the power of state authorities

Disputes over territorial sovereignty are among the thorniest of all diplomatic disagreements. While the sovereignty disputes in the South and East China Seas involve seemingly non-negotiable claims, the resources surrounding the islands can neverthele…

FOREIGN direct investment in Shanghai expanded 14.9 percent from a year earlier to US$1.6 billion in April, a four-month high in terms of value thanks to a surge of foreign investment in the city's manufacturing sector, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau said today.

SHANGHAI stocks fell today, snapping a five-day winning streak, as small-cap firms tumbled in market correction.

PROFITS at China's state-owned enterprises expanded 5.3 percent from a year earlier to 689.1 billion yuan (US$111.1 billion) in the first four months, the Ministry of Finance said today.

CHINESE consumers remained upbeat in the first quarter with consumer confidence rising faster in smaller cities, an industry report revealed this week.

SHANGHAI stocks ticked up this morning, poised for the sixth straight day of gains, as cement producers and property developers rallied.

UN experts say the H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China due to restrictions at bird markets but caused huge losses to economy

Shanghai Daily reports: IN an underground mall just a stone's throw from the Chinese mainland's border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical gold plaques do a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland visitors, many of them…

THE price of oil fell yesterday as investors waited for the Federal Reserve's latest views on the US economy.

REASSURING comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers helped push the stock market higheryesterday.

Magnus Ahlqvist, president for Sony Mobile Communications Greater China region, has reportedly resigned and the company is currently looking for his replacement. According to reports in Chinese local media, before finding a replacement, the role is tem…

APPLE Inc used "loopholes" to avoid paying US$9 billion in US taxes in 2012, US Senator Carl Levin said yesterday at a hearing that brought the company's Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook to Washington to defend the strategies.

CHINA'S net exports of gasoline remained near the highest level in a year amid the nation's weakest domestic oil demand in eight months.

THE interests of both sides would be hurt if the European Union goes ahead with an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into mobile telecommunications equipment from China, said a senior Chinese official yesterday.

THE Internet of Things technology will play a bigger role in the daily life of people in Shanghai and help to raise its profile as a smart city, local officials said yesterday.

CLIVE Palmer, the Australian mining entrepreneur who's planning to build a replica of the Titanic, won a lawsuit with CITIC Pacific Ltd over the timing of royalty payments from an US$8 billion iron ore mine.