CHINA

China's harsh measures to cool its booming property market is having limited impact on prices, property developer SOHO China's (0410.HK) chief executive said, underscoring the government's difficulty to curb credit growth on all fronts.

Japanese mobile social gaming firm Gree Inc said Wednesday it would tie-up with China's Tencent Holdings, giving it access to a market where 120 million people already play mobile games.

Saudi Arabia will boost contract crude sales by 10 percent to Asia's biggest refiner Sinopec this year as the world's top oil exporter cements its share of the world's fastest growing fuel market.

The gathering of business elites at Davos may witness the greatest concentration wealth in any one locale in history.

Americans' trust in institutions of all kinds dropped last year as persistently high unemployment sapped people's confidence in business and government, a newly released study found.

China fined French and U.S. retail giants Carrefour and Wal-Mart for lying about the price of their goods, its top economic planner said on Wednesday.

World’s most populous country China plans to build 10 more mega nuclear reactors, in addition to 25 currently being built, at an investment of $121.5 billion to boost atomic power generation to meet its energy requirements.

Some Chinese banks have increased interest rates on loans by 10-45 percent, alarmed by a surge in credit growth in January.

Pakistan warned major powers on Tuesday against granting rival India membership of four key multilateral export control regimes that allow trade in nuclear and other materials, as proposed by the United States.

Corporations in China and India have been riding on strong domestic economies, much to the envy of the West, but they now worry that runaway inflation could hit growth.

McDonald's opened the latest Hamburger University in Shanghai in 2010, getting into which has a probability of less than 1 percent.

A ministerial reshuffle has signalled India may give sorely-needed focus to the development of its burgeoning cities, whose erratic expansion is seen as a major brake on economic growth.

A report from OpenDNS shows that the social networking sites Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the most blocked and the most allowed websites.

South Korea's LG Electronics reported a record quarterly loss on Wednesday, as its phone business remained weak and its TV division also lost money, hurt by steep price declines in television.

Some Chinese banks have drastically raised interest rates on loans to comply with government orders to rein in credit growth after another lending surge at the start of the year, state media reported on Wednesday.

The following are the prepared remarks of President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech as released by the White House and set to be delivered on Tuesday evening starting around 9 p.m.

China's test flight of a prototype stealth fighter will help insulate U.S. weapons spending against deeper cuts sought by deficit hawks and add momentum to efforts by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to redirect precious budget dollars to future threats.

The company continues expanding its cloud computing services in Asia with plans to build a center in Langfang City.

A former Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) engineer has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for providing secret defense information to China, exporting technical military data and other crimes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

The following table shows China's five major state-owned power generating groups' operational results in 2010, as reported by the companies or official media.

Leather goods maker Coach Inc reported a larger-than-expected quarterly profit as U.S. luxury spending rebounded and sales in China soared over the holiday season.