Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will open three new stores in China by the end of May, confirmed the U.S. retail giant's Chinese division on Monday.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan inaugurated on Sunday the largest solar plant of the world in Abu Dhabi.
China Everbright Bank will resume its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong by issuing up to 12 billion H-shares, the bank announced Wednesday.
U.S. stocks closed mixed Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting another all-time intraday high and closing high for a second day, boosted by an improving U.S. hiring market.
China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, anchored for the first time at its homeport in Qingdao, eastern Shandong Province on Wednesday morning.
Beijing says its People's Liberation Army will conduct 40 military drills in 2013, to improve its combat abilities and protect China's security interests.
The death of a Palestinian inmate in Israeli jails on Saturday and the ongoing hunger strike of thousands of prisoners angered Palestinians and triggered growing violence and protests. However, observers said that it won't lead to a third Intifada (popular uprising) following the first one in 1987 and the second in 2000.
Taiwan's statistical authorities have slightly raised its forecast for the island's 2013 economic growth rate to 3.59 percent from 3.53 percent due to increasing private investment.
Japan has now temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt after anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has accused the Nisshin Maru of ramming two of its vessels in an act of "road rage" as the protesters tried to prevent the whaler from refuelling, Australian Minister for Environment Tony Burke said in a ABC news program on Thursday.
The popularity of a new auto-chat app among young Chinese netizens has sparked debate about social skills and tendencies under China's one-child policy and craze for online networking tools.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bipartisan resolution condemning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for its recent underground nuclear test.
The South Korean Defense Ministry believed that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has conducted a nuclear test on Tuesday, a local TV station reported.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Tuesday it has successfully conducted the third underground nuclear test, according to the official KCNA news agency.
U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, following a relatively weak week, amid worries about the debt-ridden euro area and the so-called sequester that would trigger automatic spending cuts for the United States starting from March.
A nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea will further isolate the country already under tough international sanctions, South Korea's President-elect Park Geun-hye said Thursday.
Israel's recent airstrike on a Syrian military research center has complicated the Syria crisis that has been protracted for nearly two years with no signs of an end in sight.
South Korea and the United States launched a three-day joint naval military drill Monday in a show of force as speculation abounds over a potential nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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