CHINA

The questions from the world's media covered a range of sensitive topics like the ruling Communist Party’s crackdown against corruption.

Yum Brands, which owns the KFC and Pizza Hut chains, is also dealing with the impact of a December 2012 report about unsuitable meat.

Tourism in the Asia Pacific region grew at over 6 percent in the first four months of 2014 -- higher than the global average of 5 percent.

India's ultimatum has revived doubts about the future of the WTO as a negotiating body.

Xbox One will offer more than 70 different games, as well as movies, sports, documentaries, TV shows and locally-developed applications.

China should set an economic growth target of 6.5-7 percent for 2015, below its goal for 2014, and refrain from stimulus measures unless activity threatens to slow sharply from that level, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

The smartphone wars are making mobile one of the biggest advertising categories in the world.

The investigation of the powerful former security czar may herald a change in how China handles disgraced politicians.

OSI, the American company at the center of a food safety scandal in China, has a history of alleged labor violations in the U.S.

Snapchat, the three-year-old messaging app, has seen its value swell after rebuffing offers from Facebook and Google.

Cortana, nicknamed “Xiao Na” for the Chinese market, will feature a customized interface, animations and sounds.

Zhou Yongkang is being investigated by the party's anti-corruption watchdog for suspected "serious disciplinary violations."

Relations between China and the U.S. have frayed recently after both countries have traded accusations of hacking into each other's networks.

Mating games: President Richard Nixon wanted to make sure the pandas traded to the U.S. knew how to have sex.

As China's former domestic security chief is investigated for corruption, the president is more powerful than ever.

Dozens of suspected militants were killed by police after they targeted a police station and government buildings, Beijing said.

The most powerful Chinese ever openly probed for corruption used to be unmentionable on social media. That changed overnight.

Her Instagram photos are more sporty than supermodel, but critics are saying Sabina Altynbekova, a volleyball player for Kazakhstan in the Asian Under-19 Championships, is too beautiful to play.

The move to investigate Zhou Yongkang may be a way for President Xi Jinping to make good on a promise to crackdown on rampant corruption.

The company has said previously that the sourcing switch could cause many of its 3,100-plus stores to run out of chicken products.

The supplier reportedly also sold knock-offs of popular global brand names such as Armani, Hermes and Burberry on Amazon's China portal.