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The FTSE 100, which rose to the highest level in 13 years yesterday, opened down sharply on Thursday after a surprise contraction in Chinese manufacturing hit Asian markets and worries that the Fed could ease up on QE.    

"The China-Pakistan friendship has stood the test of hardship and is more precious than gold," Chinese PM Li Keqiang said.

No, we still don't have any word from Amazon on where it stands with a smartphone, but it's definitely making its mobile ambitions clear anyway. Today, the e-commerce giant took two more steps in its strategy to scale up its Kindle Fire tablet business. It announced that it will now sell the two higher-end versions of the device, the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9",...

A seven-month rally in Japanese stocks came to an abrupt halt Thursday as the benchmark Nikkei index plunged by 7.3%, with investors rattled by weak economic data from China.

BEIJING (AP) -- A survey shows China's manufacturing contracted this month, adding to signs a fragile economic recovery is slowing....

Hacking in China thrives across official, corporate and criminal worlds and is openly discussed and promoted, whether for breaking into private networks, tracking dissent or stealing trade secrets.    

Dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice, the latest in a series of food scandals, piles on more pressure to clean up food chain

BEIJING (Reuters) - The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain - possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong's cherished goal of self-sufficiency.

A bipartisan and independent commission studying corporate espionage's impact on the American economy recommended passing the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its report released Wednesday. ". . .Corporations need better information, and thus an open, two-way communications flow between companies and U.S. government agencies is more...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer.

Das Verhältnis zwischen China und Nordkorea leidet unter dem Atomstreit. Nun geht Kim Jong Un auf seinen traditionell engen Verbündeten zu und sucht das Gespräch.

Two tiny, bizarre shaped spider species have been discovered in the Sichuan province and Chongqing city of China. The two species belong to the understudied Mysmenidae family, which prove difficult to find due to their small size (under 2 mm in total) and their cryptic lifestyle habits.

Bas writes, 3D printing is being condemned in the media because of the potential for printing guns. Engineers at Michigan Tech believe there is far more potential for 3D printers to make our lives better rather than killing one another. To encourage thinking about constructive uses of 3D printing technology Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology [...]    

The H7N9 virus appears to have been brought under control in China largely due to restrictions at bird markets, but caused some $6.5 billion in losses to the economy, UN experts said on Tuesday.

ASTANA, May 22 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan will decide by early July whether to take up an option to buy ConocoPhillips stake in the Kashagan oilfield, which has drawn interest from China and India.

Diez escritores de nueve países aspiran esta noche al Premio Booker Internacional que se falla en Londres

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The parents of a U.S. engineer found dead in Singapore last year said on Wednesday they will not take part in the rest of a coroner's inquiry into his death, which they say was linked to a project involving the transfer of sensitive technology to China.

BEIJING : A blast which ripped through an explosives plant in China has left 13 people dead and another 20 missing, an official said Tuesday, compounding the country’s poor industrial safety record. Another 19 people were injured in the explosion on Monday at a three-storey workshop owned by Poly Explosives (Jinan), a state-owned company in the eastern province of...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose less than expected in April from a year earlier due to weak demand from Europe and China, highlighting the challenges confronting the world's third-biggest economy as policymakers try to engineer a sustained revival.

China will try to sell small helicopters and airplanes to Pakistan during Li's visit, sources said.Pakistan has always been the ready testing ground for defence-related technologies from China.    

The H7N9 virus appears under control in China largely through restrictions at bird markets, but it caused $6.5 billion in losses, United Nations experts said Tuesday.