The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent in January from 7.8 percent in December 2012, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
Six major countries would hold new talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear program in Kazakhstan on Feb. 25, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said here on Sunday.
Axel van Trotsenburg has been appointed the World Bank's new Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, effective on Feb. 1, the Washington-based agency said on Thursday.
Australian companies are leading the latest bull-rush into China, with leading economists supporting a survey of Australian business leaders here overwhelmingly in favor of expanding commercial ties into China and China's booming western region - for 2013.
Heavy smog that has choked Beijing for the last five days weakened slightly on Thursday due to a light rainfall, although the capital's air remains heavily polluted.
China's steel industry was confronted with its greatest difficulties in decades last year, as the global economic slowdown curtailed demand, an industry association said Thursday
Disciplinary authorities in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Thursday vowed to thoroughly investigate officials who are believed to have been involved in a recent sex video scandal.
Israeli war jets sneaked off radars and hit a center for scientific research in a suburb of Syrian capital Damascus at dawn Wednesday, the General Command of the Syrian Military said in a statement.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe suggested Tuesday that a summit between Japan and China is necessary to mend bilateral relations scratched by territorial dispute, local media reported.
UN deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey on Tuesday said that the UN refugee agency "is readying itself to assist in the possible spontaneous return of thousands of conflict-displaced people in the north of Mali."
China is determined to pursue the internationalization of the renminbi on a market-oriented basis, and will closely watch the spillover effects of Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy.
India’s leading herbal cosmetics manufacturer said it is seeking to open the vast Chinese market for its cosmetic and beauty products based on the 5,000-year-old traditional Indian medicine system also called Ayurveda.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday officially unveiled his immigration reform proposals in a highlighted speech in Las Vegas, Nevada, which marked his first public push in the second term over the long-term divisive issue.
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.
Hong Kong aims to reduce 30 percent of absolute electricity used in buildings by the year 2030 as compared to the 2005 level, said Ir Collin Chung, president of the Hong Kong Association of Energy Engineers on Monday.
The whole world economy is very mixed still with a lot of storm, but Chinese economy has pretty sunny outlook comparing with other countries.
Three explosive devices went off Tuesday in Syria's capital of Damascus, leaving injuries and property loss, as a broad-based opposition watchdog placed the overall death toll of Syria's 22-month-old crisis at 50,000.
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