Before Jeremy Lin became an international sensation with the New York Knicks, he was courted by Yao Ming to play overseas in Shanghai, China.
Jason Van Hoven
Feb 12, 2012
Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs Monday after Arab countries called for U.N. peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad.
Eric Linton
Feb 12, 2012
China has instructed its banks to embark on a huge roll-over of loans to local governments, the Financial Times reported, aiming to give itself more time to deal with a debt hangover from the global financial crisis.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 12, 2012
China is half a world away from the 2,300-acre family farm in east-central Iowa where John Weber and his son plant corn and soybeans.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 12, 2012
The Arab League threw its support Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
Eric Linton
Feb 12, 2012
Tom Storrs, who set a small North Carolina bank on the path to becoming one of the largest U.S. financial institutions, died Friday at age 93.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 12, 2012
The Arab League threw its support Sunday firmly behind the opposition mounting an uprising against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and called for the U.N. Security Council to send peacekeepers to halt bloodshed.
Eric Linton
Feb 12, 2012
Turn the clock back 13 years to 1999. Seek out the Chief Information Officer of every large business. What was the big worry? Y2K.
David Zielenziger
Feb 12, 2012
Global airlines on Sunday called for a deal brokered by a United Nations agency to avoid an impasse between China and the European Union over jet pollution spilling into a trade war. Airlines are being squeezed between conflicting laws, the head of the International Air Transport Association said.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 12, 2012
Turkmenistan votes on Sunday in a one-sided election certain to extend the rule of President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov over a Central Asian country holding 4 percent of global natural-gas reserves, which rights groups rank among the world's most repressive.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 12, 2012
Is there anyone on the planet who hasn't read of the spate of suicides, worker deaths and accidents at the Chinese plants owned by Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industries, better known as Foxconn?
David Zielenziger
Feb 11, 2012
His university classmates may be thriving in law school, at brokerage houses and on the early rungs up the corporate ladder, but Jeremy Lin is blazing a trail as the sudden savior of the New York Knicks.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 11, 2012
In the Year of the Dragon, China expects a 5 percent increase in births despite the country's strict one-child policy. This brings into question whether the one-child policy is still an effective population control tool. Or is the policy actually damaging Chinese society and economy?
Esther Tran Le
Feb 11, 2012
Google Inc (GOOG.O) is expected to win approval next week from European regulators, as well as from U.S. antitrust authorities, for its planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility (MMI.N), according to people familiar with the matter.
keep for now
Feb 11, 2012
U.S. overspending on the military has diverted resources from civilian / social investments, including public goods, weakening the U.S. economy, and, by extension, weakening the nation.
Joseph Lazzaro
Feb 11, 2012
From what I have seen, North Asian media has given the sensational rumors scant coverage.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 11, 2012
Syrian forces unleashed new tank and rocket bombardments on opposition neighborhoods in Homs on Saturday while diplomats sought United Nations backing for an Arab plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in the Middle Eastern country.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 11, 2012
Kim Jong-un was reportedly shot to death, Friday, at the North Korean embassy in Beijing, China.
Wendy Li
Feb 11, 2012
Violence flared across Syria, including bomb attacks that killed at least 28 people in Aleppo, while at the United Nations diplomats said a new effort was afoot to gain backing for an Arab peace plan to end 11 months of bloodshed in the country.
Raymond Ronamai
Feb 11, 2012
From the power centers of Washington to a soybean farm in Iowa to sunny Southern California, China's president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, will sample diverse slices of America during a major visit from Monday to Friday next week.
J.J. McGrath
Feb 11, 2012
Some California farmers plan to stop selling their walnuts to Diamond Foods Inc. in the wake of an accounting scandal over grower payments that has claimed the jobs of the snack company's CEO and chief financial officer.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 11, 2012
According to Dow Jones' World Solar Energy index, solar stocks rallied this month, up 17 percent on indications of rising demand for solar panels, particularly in China, and price stabilization.
Bhaskar Prasad
Feb 10, 2012
