CHINA

An American executive has been detained at his factory near Beijing for the past four days by workers demanding severance packages.

Unesco added 19 new sites to its prestigious World Heritage List in 2013, including Mount Etna, Mount Fuji and North Korea's Kaesong.

With Europe and Asia down about 1% Mon., U.S. traders are anticipating a bumpy start to the week.

Ten foreign tourists attempting to climb Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat were murdered Sunday in a Taliban-linked attack at base camp.

Some are speculating that China's central government helped the NSA leaker evade extradition from Hong Kong.

The National Security Agency whistle-blower is reportedly headed ultimately for South America.

As a first step to seek Snowden's extradition from Hong Kong, the U.S. filed espionage charges against him.

Online reactions to a bizarre accident in China that killed two have varied, but most center on how easy it is to get a driver's license.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to express the EU's interest in closer trade relations.

Best Buy issued a recall notice for 5,100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries.

Japan Inc.’s aggressive foray abroad has been stagnating investment at home.

Russia will invest half of its welfare reserves in a bid to boost the flagging economy.

China in particular is struggling through a period of transition, with lower growth rates, said Barclays economists.

Apparently there are enough people in Southeast Asia now who can afford $200,000 super-luxury cars.

While some may want to burn old pictures of themselves from the '80s, China's netizens are loving recently resurfaced photos of Peng Liyuan.

Russia's state-owned crude oil giant Rosneft will raise its exports to China to 600,000 barrels per day.

Though Beijing has not made an explicit statement on Snowden in Hong Kong, Chinese state media are insisting that China's government wants nothing to do with the case.

Three Chinese astronauts demonstrated a series of scientific experiments from space to students back down on Earth.

Wall Street's bulls & bears are likely to battle again Friday, after the Fed signaled a changing monetary policy landscape.

Asian markets moved sharply in either direction Friday as global markets come to grips with a post-QE world in the foreseeable future.

Protests in Brazil swelled to more than 1 million people amid panic in the country's financial markets and a nose-diving currency.