U.S. stocks plummeted more than 2 percent Thursday following a sell-off on Wednesday that was triggered by fears that the Federal Reserve would reduce its aggressive economic stimulus program later this year.
The international community should adopt decisive and consistent measures to address the fragile economic recovery, top political and business leaders agreed at an economic forum here.
Although Hong Kong is known as a hard-working and productive market, more local people feel satisfied with the amount of leisure time they have outside work, according to results of a survey released on Wednesday.
Many young people in rural China hold the belief that earning money in a city is the only way to be able to afford a home and family. Yet, Li Shuhua is an exception. The 30-year-old decided to run his own ecological farm in his hometown after four years of work experience at horticultural companies in Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces.
Australia must introduce game- changing strategies to become Asia's food bowl and reach its potential in feeding the 9 billion people predicted to be living on Earth by 2050, said some Australian agribusiness experts.
Heavy rain since Wednesday has caused flooding of rivers in east China's Jiangxi Province, forcing the evacuation of 33,310 people.
With an eye on dinner tables in the Chinese mainland, McDonald's, the world's leading fast food operator, on Wednesday announced new rice products for the mainland market.
China's cabinet announced detailed plans on deepening economic reform on Monday, fulfilling its pledge to cut government interventions that hinder more robust growth in the world's second-largest economy.
A recent study has found that Hong Kong children tend to be significantly more narcissistic than their counterparts in Western countries with authoritarian and permissive parenting style as a contributing factor.
Many Asia Pacific countries have been included in a report comprehensively detailing the inner workings of offshore tax havens from a watchdog reporting network, by which could spark an unprecedented increase in financial accountability.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's maiden foreign trip includes three African countries, Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo.
As National People's Congress kicked off its first day of meetings in Beijing on March 5, prominent government officials offered their opinions ranging from political reform to oil prices at the first session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC).
As Chinese lawmakers and political advisors are meeting in Beijing, the future of the world's second largest economy comes top at the agenda.
The ten-day trip, which would bring him to Britain, Germany, France and Italy, as well as Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, suggests that Kerry is more focused on the Europe and Middle East than his predecessor Hillary Clinton, according to experts.
A leftist rebel was killed Tuesday in a clash with government security forces in the southern Philippine province of Davao del Sur, a military official said on Wednesday.
Chinese products are often stereotyped as being low cost and poor quality. However, now "made in China" is shifting to "created in China".
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said here Friday that the missile research ability of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has entered into a new stage, local media reported.
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