CHINA

About 2.8 million jobs, both in manufacturing and high-tech fields, have been lost as a result of the growing U.S. trade deficit with China since Beijing's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, said an EPI study, which was denounced immediately by the US-China Joint Business Council.

Quanta Computer Inc, the world's largest PC contract maker, said on Wednesday that employees at its Taiwan production line number less than 2,000, down from about 3,000 in the first half, following a decline in client orders.

Authorities in eastern India will start culling chickens and destroying eggs to contain a new outbreak of H5 bird flu, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, as a mutant strain of the virus is spreading elsewhere in Asia.

Gold's rally will extend beyond $2,000 an ounce in the next year, but won't match the torrid record-breaking climb of the last 12 months, according to gold investors and analysts attending the London Bullion Market Association's (LBMA) annual conference.

Drawn by a handwritten notice, a handful of customers sift through stacks of sports shoes and rows of clothes at a Li Ning discount outlet in China's boom town of Shenzhen on a Sunday afternoon.

Japan's exports rose in the year to August at less than half the pace expected as a global economic slowdown, a strong currency and Europe's sovereign debt crisis put Japan's own recovery increasingly in doubt.

Strong policies are urgently needed to increase economic growth and reduce the risk of a double-dip recession in the developed world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its revised World Economic Outlook. The IMF also decreased its 2011 global GDP growth forecast to 4 percent, down 0.3 percentage points from the June 2011 forecast.

Europe will come under heavy pressure this week to stem its deepening debt crisis but talks among the self-proclaimed guardians of global finance are unlikely to yield bold action.

Europe needs to get its act together and deal with its worsening sovereign debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, warning of the risk of severe repercussions for global growth.

Gold's rally will extend beyond $2,000 an ounce in the next year, but won't match the torrid record-breaking climb of the last 12 months, according to gold investors and analysts attending the London Bullion Market Association's (LBMA) annual conference.

The U.S.-based Standard and Poor credit ratings agency upgraded Turkey's local-currency sovereign credit rating to investment grade for the first time in history, highlighting the country’s relatively strong financial condition compared to its neighbors in Europe.

Zambians voted on Tuesday in a closely contested election between President Rupiah Banda and opposition leader Michael Sata, who has been a critic of foreign investment in Africa's biggest copper producer, most notably from China.

The African Union (AU) recognised the National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's de facto government on Tuesday, removing another piece of diplomatic support for ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Almost everyday we come across some rumors about Apple’s new i-devices. However, on Monday a big bang came out. It said that Apple will surprisingly release two separate devices: one is the widely expected iPhone 5 and the other is an improved version of iPhone 4, called ‘iPhone 4-plus’.

As long ago as 2005, North Korea agreed to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for certain economic and political incentives

An outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) has been confirmed in West Bengal, India as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh races to coordinate preventative measures.

Which comes first, the iPhone 5 (chicken) or the iPhone 4-plus (egg), or will we get the chicken and the egg from Apple at the same time come October?

A new outbreak of the H5 strain of avian influenza (bird flu) has surfaced in West Bengal, India.

Six thousand troops have been deployed to the India-Nepal border, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. The current death toll has risen to 90 people, about 50 from the Indian state of Sikkim, along with others in Nepal and Tibet.

In China, he has surprised and charmed the nation by his humility and ordinariness.

German engineering group Siemens withdrew funds from Societe Generale in July because of underperformance, not fears over the French bank's financial health, a Paris-based source said on Tuesday.