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Kuala Lumpur - The sudden disappearance Saturday of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 -- with no distress call or other signs of trouble -- has ignited intense speculation over what happened to the jet and its 239 passengers.Following are some of the scenarios being mul...

The Hague - Dutch food and cosmetics giant Unilever said on Sunday it has bought a majority stake in Chinese water purification company Qinyuan in its biggest investment in the country in a decade."We are delighted to be making this strategic investment –- a maj...

Manila - The Philippines also has the right to defend every inch of its territory, President Benigno Aquino's spokesman said on Sunday, after China made a similar warning.Spokesman Herminio Coloma's remarks came after China's foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sa...

Beijing - Justin Bieber had his bodyguards carry him up the Great Wall of China, but this Digital Journalist climbed it herself only to find a Chinese grandmother already there, cane in hand.

A wildcat strike at an IBM factory in southern China illustrates how tectonic shifts under way in the country's labor market are emboldening workers to take matters into their own hands, raising risks f...

Beijing - The vice governor of a Chinese province is being investigated, the ruling Communist Party's internal disciplinary body announced Sunday, the latest high-ranking official to fall in a high-profile anti-graft campaign.Shen Peiping, vice governor of Yunna...

China's consumer prices rose at their slowest rate in 13 months in February as pork prices fell by their most in over a year, a sign that slowing growth rather than rising prices poses a bigger risk to the world's second-biggest eco...

Hanoi - Mystery surrounded the identity of two passengers who appear to have used stolen European passports to board a Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished carrying 239 people, as the search for the aircraft failed to yield a breakthrough Sunday.More than 30 ho...

Beijing - China's inflation rate dropped to 2.0 percent year-on-year in February, down from 2.5 percent in January, the government said Sunday.The consumer price index (CPI) figure announced by the National Bureau of Statistics matched the median forecast in a p...

The Shanghai Stock Exchange has secured approvals from regulators to set up an international trading center in the free-trade zone, the chairman of the bourse said on Saturday.