CHINA

China's ZTE Corp aims to grow its cellphone sales 30 percent to 40 percent this year, on par with last year, while it focuses increasingly on the smartphone market, a senior official said.

Volkswagen AG (VOWG.DE), PSA Peugeot-Citroen (PEUP.PA) and other automakers will invest more than 10 billion yuan ($1.52 billion) in manufacturing capacity in China's Guangdong province this year, Chinese state media reported on Sunday.

Fertiliser and specialty chemicals maker Israel Chemicals said on Sunday it had signed contracts with several customers in China to supply a total of 500,000 tonnes of potash in the first half of 2011.

Finance ministers from the world's 20 biggest developed and developing economies (G20) are likely to agree next week on a two-stage approach to tackling global economic imbalances, a European Union document showed.

Nothing like a little revolution to shake up an already turbulent global economy.

Finance ministers from the world's 20 biggest developed and developing economies (G20) are likely to agree next week on a two-stage approach to tackling global economic imbalances, a European Union document showed.

The Chinese Cabinet has announced that it will constitute a panel to look into foreign acquisitions of local companies.

A Chinese man quoted in McAfee report on hacking from China targeted at US oil companies flip-flops on his claims.

Liu Zhijun, China's Minister of Railways, has been placed under investigation for serious disciplinary violations, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency

China will launch a state-level investment review body to check that merger and acquisition deals struck by foreign firms in one of the world's fastest-growing economies do not endanger national security, China's State Council, the cabinet, said on Saturday.

The United States plans to build high-speed 4G wireless services network and make it available to at least 98 percent of Americans households by 2016, President Barrack Obama said during a speech at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan.

Donald Trump Vs Sarah Palin in the race for Republican Presidential Candidates 2012 as anti-Obama the billionaire gave another sign at the CPAC that he would run for the White House.

Potential Republican candidates in 2012 presidential election who gathered in Washington for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have launched an attack on major policies of the Obama administration as they pitched their respective cases. Here's a snapshot of the possible Republican challengers in 2012:

LOS ANGELES - Deal-of-the-day website Groupon has pulled its controversial Super Bowl ads that made light of Tibet's oppression against China's Communist regime.

Hong Kong's securities regulator said it has started court proceedings against the chief executive of China Forestry Holdings Co Ltd, which is backed by the Carlyle Group.

Beijing will have to seek alternative sources of grain to feed animals as top exporter the United States runs tighter on corn supply than it has for decades, while at home a severe drought threatens China's wheat belt.

Zimbabwe is an important ally to China and Beijing will seek to further strengthen ties, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said of a country isolated by the West under President Robert Mugabe's rule.

The United States has incited Brazil and India to criticise China's currency policy, but Beijing need not worry too much because it can defuse the tension through talks, a series of Chinese government advisers told Reuters.

On the last day of January, a crowd of 600 gathered in sub-zero temperatures on Moscow's Triumph Square and began to chant Freedom! Freedom! and call for the resignation of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Wheat prices have fallen for the second straight day, despite scares about a drought in China.

China must speed up resource tax reforms to fight heavy pollution and also make a priority of energy-saving to stave off risky dependence on foreign supplies, the nation's Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in remarks published on Friday.