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Southeast Asia’s biggest budget airline, which reported its first profit in nine quarters, plans to boost flights to second-tier cities as competition heats up.

The Philippines said it found no traces of weapons of mass destruction on a North Korean vessel it detained under a new U.N. resolution against the country.

China reset its economic growth forecast for 2015 to a range of 6.5 percent to 7 percent.

The family-friendly animated film surpassed “Frozen” to set a weekend mark for Disney.

Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's vice chancellor, also described U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump as a “right-wing populist.”

China may launch mixed ownership pilot programs in the oil, natural gas and rail sectors, the country's economic planning head Xu Shaoshi said Sunday.

The U.S. Commerce Department investigated ZTE over contracts to ship hardware and software worth millions of dollars from some of America’s biggest tech firms to Iran’s largest telecom carrier.

China aims to boost its research-and-development spending to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product between 2016 and 2020, compared with 2.1 percent of GDP in the previous five-year period.

Participation in the planned talks was declined by the Taliban, which repeated that its preconditions, including the withdrawal of foreign troops, had not been met.

As China unveils its economic goals for the next year, experts say there is tension between stimulus measures and needed market reforms.

On Wednesday, the United Nations imposed tough new sanctions over Pyongyang's recent nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

Premier Li Keqiang acknowledged the slowing momentum of the world’s second-largest economy in a blueprint of its economic targets for the next five years.

The International Monetary Fund’s move will aid China’s effort to secure a bigger role for its currency by revealing quarterly reserve holdings of yuan among the IMF’s 188 member countries.

The Chinese government also anticipates a budget deficit of 3 percent of gross domestic product in the world’s No. 2 economy this year, Premier Li Keqiang says.

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are competing for votes in the heavily industrial state of Michigan before its presidential primary election Tuesday.

Brazil’s mounting economic troubles are making it increasingly difficult for the government to reach its ambitious clean energy goals, analysts say.

Already having a hard time policing sanctions on its longtime ally North Korea, China now fears a humanitarian crisis in the hermit kingdom.

The complaint, filed Thursday, challenges measures that increase fees on certain categories of temporary work visas for the United States.

Stock markets across Asia and Europe rallied Friday as investor sentiment was buoyed by optimistic expectations from the U.S.

Beijing and Washington have accused each other of militarizing the disputed region, which the latter considers an international waterway.

The German sportswear giant also plans to increase its presence to over 2,200 cities in Asia’s biggest economy.