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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Switzerland Tuesday for an official visit which also includes participation at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

Brazil is the largest country in Latin America. It spreads across almost half (47.3%) of South America, and occupies a total area of 8,547,403.5 km2. It is the fifth largest country in the world after Canada, the Russian Federation, China and the United States. Except for a small number of islands, Brazil is a single and continuous land mass. The Equator passes through the northern region, near Ma...

The recent design by Italian couturier Giorgio Armani comes with an Eastern theme.

The Australian Dollar continued last week to be bogged down in a 4 cent trading range with the low being 0.6414 and the high being 0.6839. With the local data out during the

Lantau Island features the world's tallest outdoor seated bronze Buddha, along with the Po Lin Monastery, Tai O village on stilts, Ngong Ping 360 and Hong Kong Disneyland.

A report says that Asia and Latin America's Computer networks are the most hit by a fast-spreading computer virus.

One thing you can probably get 99% of economists to agree on is that a global trade war in the middle of a global recession is a bad idea. If every country increases import tariffs, hoping to protect its domestic industry from foreign competition, global trade will fall in all directions, hurting everybody. Put another way, increased tariffs are a negative-sum game.

Look for countries with strong middle-class growth -- say, China or Brazil. Stick mainly to housing and retail. Focus on the long term. And don't attempt to do it without a local partner.

The global number of Internet users has swelled to over one billion uses according to new research, with China accounting for the largest population of Web surfers

A Chinese court sentenced two men to death and a dairy boss to life in prison Thursday for their roles in producing and selling infant formula tainted with melamine, a deadly industrial chemical added to watered-down milk in order to fool inspectors and increase profits.

Xin Yang, 22, a female Chinese graduate student at Virginia Tech University was killed Wednesday night.

The unstable international financial crisis has also made a dent in China. In 2008, China experienced a growth rate of 9 percent; its lowest growth rate since 2001.

Mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd announced plans Wednesday to slash 6,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global work force, as the collapse in commodity prices.

Since Hong Kong is a mere hour-long boat ride away, we couldn't visit Macau without stopping into China's other nearby autonomous territory; those in a rush can grab a copter – and be there in twelve minutes.

Macau (top left) is quickly shooting up as the world's fastest-growing tourist destination. Pictured: Macau's Galaxy Starworld Hotel. Hong Kong (top right) is a surreally highrise and dreamlike city. This view looking down from Hong Kong Island's highest hotel, the Island Shangri-La. Photos: Steve WarnerAs I peered down at the glimmering city of Bangkok below -- the

Ford Motor Company began the production of the Fiesta car in China, a fuel-efficient and low-cost model which the firm aims to introduce to the world through 2010.

China now has the highest number of internet users in the world and had the largest growing online population of 2008, a report suggests.

On Wednesday, a new data record showed that China's economy grew to become the world's third-largest in 2007 reflecting the countries amazing ability to overcome yet another milestone in the country's stunning rise in the global pecking order.

Royal Bank Scotland Plc confirmed in a statement on Wednesday it sold its stake in Bank of China Ltd.sending shares of the Chinese bank up in Hong Kong.

Interest in what promoters call the best job in the world, has sparked so much interest that the website of the would-be employer caved under pressure.

The closure of Guantanamo Bay prison will not be an easy one with many diverse prisoners from die-hard jihadists to innocent men swept up in war.