MELBOURNE - Global mining major BHP Billiton is planning a rethink on its focus areas for investments including the American shale gas venture, with weakening global commodity prices pulling down the...

Former Australian pacer Nathan Bracken is suing Cricket Australia for 1.07 million US dollars for failing to adequately deal with a knee injury that finished his playing career.

Bracken has argued...

China, once a nation of bicycles, is reverting to it as a means of movement once again in a measure to push government vehicles off the roads at least once a week in a nationwide effort to conserve...

China will stockpile one million tonnes of sugar in an effort to stabilize prices and protect farmers' interests, the government said Wednesday.

The government will buy home-produced sugar for state...

Against the backdrop of recent self-immolations by Buddhist monks, India Wednesday struck a cautious note on the growing Tibetan unrest, telling China that it was "willing to offer any help" to ease...

With Beijing worried over the Tibetan unrest, India Wednesday reassured China that it considered the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) as part of China and reiterated New Delhi's policy of not allowing...

Voicing satisfaction at the progress in Sino-Indian relations, China Wednesday said there was enough space and opportunity for the people of both countries to develop together.

Welcoming External...

Child pornography in Australia has risen exponentially as paedophiles are increasingly exchanging images of themselves molesting a child with other abusers.

With the rise of file swapping, the...

A China based online blog, which offers an opportunity for single police officers to find their date as per their convenience, has become a huge hit on the Internet.

The move is part of a "plan of...

China Wednesday put forth a plan to boost employment during the 2011-15 period, which aims to create 45 million jobs and keep the registered urban unemployment rate within 5 percent.

Authorities...

A knife-wielding man broke into a school in China, stabbed two students and fled, authorities said Wednesday.

The man entered the No.1 Middle School of Nanchang in east Jiangxi province at about...

French Open champion Li Na of China was forced to quit her first-round match at the WTA Paris Indoor Open.

Third-seeded Li withdrew while trailing Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 6-7, 2-3 at the...

The stupendous success of Cricket Australia's Twenty20 matches may help it win the 100 million dollar TV rights deal and change the way fans watch the Big Bash League.

A leading sports media...

Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi has expressed his delight over Pakistan's victory against England, and insisted that the players should make 'winning their habit like Australia and South...

An Indian-origin taxi driver in Australia, who was acquitted of raping a young woman, has said that he has often been offered sexual favours as payment for fares and the practice is becoming very...

That's a scratch that will cost her dear, and she feared much more. But a woman in China is "relieved" she would have to pay only 188,000 yuan ($29,800) for a tiny-winy scratch her car caused to a...

CHICAGO (AFP) - A former software engineer for Motorola was found guilty Wednesday of stealing trade secrets from the US technology firm just before she tried to leave the country for China, the...

Australia on Sunday. Kohli, the only India centurion during the tourists' dismal 4-0 Test series loss to Australia, again upstaged his more celebrated teammates with an impressive knock of 77...

DUBAI // Emirates Airline could be fined more than A$1 million for allegedly breaching a flight curfew at an Australian airport on three occasions. According to local media, Australian government...

EU looks to China on debt crisis Consumer companies tell a tale of rising prices. Yum, the parent group of Kentucky Fried Chicken, is just one struggling to pass through rising costs to Chinese...

An Alberta wheat farm: The Canadian Wheat Board's role as sole Canadian exporter of wheat and barley to the world is set to end as of Aug. 1. China is the world's largest importer of...

February 8, 2012 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the world faced a growing ';cult of violence'; and Moscow must not let events like those in Libya and Syria be...

8 de febrero de 2012, 13:21 Beijing, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) China and Canada on Wednesday signed accords on cooperation in many sectors to provide new contents to their relations, at the beginning of...

Beijing, Feb 8 (Prensa Latina) China will invest more than six billion dollars from 2012 to 2015 in technological projects for water-saving irrigation in its four northern territories, in order to...

Children play in a traditional residential district in Beijing that is undergoing demolition in April 2011. Despite public protest, historic and new homes are being destroyed all over the city to...

The Chinese Embassy in Sofia has announced a BGN 15 000 donation to aid the victims of the floods that have hit Southern Bulgaria. The funding from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China...

Industry analysts warn that the month-long rally in nickel prices could be lost as import demand from top buyer China eases due to a well supplied local...

Cathay Pacific currently offers more than 70 flights a week from Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns, Adelaide and Perth) to Hong Kong with good connections onto Shanghai and Beijing,...

MOSCOW, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - The international community should not act in Syria like an elephant in a china shop, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin...

British Airways and Japan Airlines have agreed a tie-up on flights between Europe and the world's third-biggest economy in a new cost-cutting initiative, BA parent group IAG said on...

The Okuma childcare centrer is seen in Okuma town, inside the exclusion zone of a 20-km (12-mile) radius around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture January 28,...

Chinese automaker BAIC is mulling over buying the remaining assets of Swedish automaker Saab Auto, together with Japan's Matsushita Group, according to a report published on auto.gasgoo.com. ...

(IFJ/IFEX) - 8 February 2012 - The following is an excerpt of IFJ's February 2012 Campaign Bulletin:( . . . )3) Journalist Attacked in TaiwanA Taiwanese journalist was brutally attacked four...

The eurozone crisis is likely to continue to drag on China's exports, a key driver of the nation's economic growth, a senior official at Fitch Ratings said yesterday. China has seen an...

Some Internet users in Beijing will get their broadband speeds increased up to 20 Mbps (Megabits per second) for free after the Beijing branch of China Telecom finishes upgrading speeds of the...

Japan and the US agreed yesterday to disassemble and transfer thousands of US Marines to Guam from the southern Japan island of Okinawa from plans to relocate a base on Okinawa, a step forward in...

The ex-president of the Maldives, who claims he was forced out of power by a coup, called on his successor to step down yesterday as thousands of protestors clashed with riot police in the...

which we reported at Changing Gears , is happening because Toyota is shifting production of the Highlander, a mid-sized SUV, to Princeton from Japan next year. When that happens, Toyota will build...

By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 – The United States and Japan have agreed to "delink" two aspects of the planned relocation of U.S. forces in Japan,...

WASHINGTON -- Japanese trade officials on Tuesday assured the United States they were prepared to discuss key U.S. trade demands if allowed to join talks on a regional free trade agreement in the...

BEIJING -- The annual average growth of China's minimum wages should be at least 13 percent in the five years to 2015, according to a government job market plan for the period published on...

BEIJING--Canada and China expanded cooperation Wednesday with agreements to boost bilateral investment and promote energy exports to China as Ottawa seeks to diversify its oil...

BEIJING--China lashed out on Wednesday against British Foreign Secretary William Hague, saying his criticism of Beijing's veto of a U.N. resolution pressing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to...

MOSCOW: Russian leaders under fire for a UN veto Wednesday rejected outside interference in the Syrian conflict, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warning against behaving "like a bull in a...

Russia and China have vetoed the latest UN Security Council resolution on the ongoing violence in Syria because it leaves out sanctions on the opposition alongside those on the Assad government, and...

Here are a few details of the major investment deal coming soon between Canada and China, as well as a list of what CBC chief political correspondent Terry Milewski calls a "small blizzard of...

wide-ranging set of agreements set to further bind the Chinese and Canadian economies. One concluded negotiations for a groundbreaking investment deal. Others announced "partnerships,"...

The Chinese cabinet is promising to raise minimum wages by 13 per cent a year until 2015, as the country's leaders face growing pressure to spread the country's prosperity more widely. The...

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (L) shakes hands with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the end of a signing ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People at the Great Hall of the People on...