The Android smartphone is expected to launch on Oct. 20.
Asian markets rallied after the U.S. Federal Reserve moved to keep rates steady in September.
The factory will be able to produce 500,000 units per month at peak capacity.
Ford wants to appeal to Chinese customers by focusing $1.8 billion on smart cars developed in China.
Apple is pushing the envelope in getting its iPhones into the hands of as many Indians as it can, in the world's third-biggest smartphone market.
The "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope," or FAST, will be the size of 30 football fields.
India's IT services companies face currency volatility and shifting demand patterns even as they prepare to grow faster.
Thousands of factory workers and suppliers were affected after Shenzhen-based Fu Chang announced its closure, amid a slowdown in the market.
Singapore and Malaysia sent in Bombardier, Chinook and other aircraft to battle Indonesia's haze-inducing forest fires.
European stock indexes failed to carry on last week's rally, while U.S. equities traded in a tight range and most Asian markets closed higher.
Growing demand from emerging and developed markets, and lower supply from non-OPEC countries, will lead to recovery, the organization's secretary general said Sunday.
A resident of the Philippines says his relative spotted wreckage of a plane with a Malaysian flag inside on the island of Tawi Tawi.
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer says “considerable uncertainties” surround the U.S. economic outlook.
The next chief executive is due to be chosen in 2017.
The iPhone maker reportedly disabled its recently introduced News app in China, where online censorship forces hard choices for U.S. companies.
The legality of car-hailing services has vexed regulators in China where authorities say drivers are operating outside the law.
The pilot program will be expanded to include Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing, as well as six other provinces and municipalities, according to the People's Bank of China.
The Stalinist state marked the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party with an enormous parade, at which a huge array of military hardware was on display.
As China completes lighthouses on disputed islands in the South China Sea, it warns the U.S. against sending its naval vessels into the area.
A U.S. congressional commission's criticism of China's human rights record did not "accord with the facts", the Chinese government said on Friday, the latest friction over a long-running thorn in relations.
The group stage in Paris, France is finishing up this weekend, watch all the action here.
Two women known only as Jane Doe 1 and 2 have filed a lawsuit against ride-hailing service Uber over sexual assault.