CHINA

Amid a bribery scandal, a sex tape of the former chief of the drugmaker's China unit spreads worry about shady business practices.

A GSK spokesman reportedly confirmed the tape existed but did not comment on how it related to the alleged bribery scandal.

China's banks made $292 billion in aggregate pretax profit last year, or 32 percent of the industry's global earnings, according to The Banker.

The man spoke to a throng of onlookers in opposition to the landmark proposal to allow for a more active Japanese military.

Hong Kong's democracy 'referendum' began on June 20.

North Korea claims it is testing newly developed precision-guided missiles.

Despite a growing number of cell-phone users in China, fewer people are texting there.

The White House says the U.S. could soon join the biggest anti-landmine treaty currently in effect.

ESPN and Univision earned a combined 14.2 television viewers for the US-Germany game and another 4.9 million online.

Chinese workers -- and oil investment -- are in jeopardy in Iraq after ISIS attack.

A Chinese philanthropist says that China's poor would use cash handouts to buy food, not drugs. He's right -- but not in the way he thinks.

As sales of her memoir dropped, Clinton's criticism of the Chinese government seems to be shutting her out of a huge market.

China's industrial companies saw their profits grow at the slowest pace this year in May.

In May, the U.S. indicted five Chinese military officials for hacking into the networks of American companies.

They may be the tallest structures in the world for at least a year.

The exercise will bolster military ties between China and its neighbors but Beijing's stance on Asian maritime issues is unlikely to change.

The controversial pundit wrote a column on Wednesday where she claimed interest in soccer was the sign of moral decay.

The increasingly strict social media blackouts in Iraq have forced citizens who wish to communicate online to download Tor, a software that makes it possible for anyone with the Internet to browse the Internet anonymously.

The crew of two women and one man spent 105 days testing a bio-regenerative system for life in space.

Alibaba's reported decision to list on the NYSE is another setback for an exchange still struggling to get past Facebook's IPO flop.