China's new Communist Party leader, Xi Jinping has called for further reforms of judicial, prosecution and public security organs, to fight corruption to ensure justice in every case.
Specific stocks will drive the market in 2013 with their strong pricing power, a fund manager said on Tuesday. Non-banking financials, IT sector and domestic consumption are promising investment themes in a long run, added Agnes Deng, head of Hong Kong China Equities of Baring Asset Management (Asia) Ltd, a British fund manager.
Increasing food prices are driving China's inflation higher, a trend seen to limit authorities' space to soften their monetary stance in the coming year.
The national political and legal work conference which concluded here on Tuesday announced that four major reforms, including changes to the "laojiao" system, or re-education through labor system, will be pushed forward this year.
Governments in southern China are struggling to aid the homeless and repair infrastructure amid persistent cold weather that has brought the lowest temperatures recorded in 28 years.
The complicated issue in the South China Sea remains a challenge in the process of building the ASEAN community, ASEAN's new Secretary General Le Luong Minh said here Wednesday.
Continuing milatary attacks on ethnic Kachin rebels by Myanmar government have raised the conersn of China and the international community over the region's stability.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai kicked off a three-day official visit to the U.S. on Monday for extensive talks with President Barack Obama and other American leaders on the future of bilateral relations.
China's IPOs slumped in 2012, with newly listed A-share companies and fundraising at a three-year low...But where the number of new listed companies fell - the business of selling shares and rights in existing companies - boomed.
The Sixth Asian Financial Forum (AFF) with the theme "Asia: shaping the next global landscape" will be held on 14-15 January at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.This year's forum will bring high-profile speakers including Guo Shuqing, chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission and Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary.
Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean is preparing for arraignment on a misdemeanor criminal charge from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.
As Turkey is completing preparations to deploy NATO's Patriot missiles along its borders with Syria, Syrian cabinet met here Tuesday to find mechanisms to put into effect the fresh vision of President Bashar al-Assad on a political solution to the country's 22-month crisis.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is likely to testify before Congress over the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, late this month, a top Republican senator said Tuesday.
Myanmar's parliament began its 6th sessions in Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday, more than one month after the end of the 5th session of the two houses.
The first Palestinian postage stamp carrying the name "State of Palestine" was issued as the first step toward sovereignty after the status of Palestine at the United Nations was upgraded, a Palestinian official said Tuesday.
One driver was killed and another injured during a test run of a metro line Tuesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Three crew members and 24 tourists have been stranded aboard a fishing boat at Xisha Islands, South China Sea, due to strong winds and high waves on the sea, local maritime authorities said on Wednesday.
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