China's turbo-charged growth eased just a touch in the first quarter, while its inflation jumped to a 32-month high, putting pressure on the government to do more to rein in prices and
Chinese police have detained a prominent rights lawyer suspected of "creating a disturbance", while another is feared to have been taken into custody after he said he was being followed, the latest
Suppliers to Apple Inc have begun production of white iPhones after a delay of almost 10 months, pointing to a launch date of within a month, two people familiar with the situation
Managing talent has overtaken risk as top of the CEO agenda, according to analysis from PwC's 14th annual CEO survey. Some 83% of the 1200 CEOs surveyed globally plan to change their
European stocks retreated on Thursday as lingering worries about the euro zone debt crisis hurt banks in the peripheral countries, while miners fell on concerns high inflation in China could lead to
Germany's government hiked its growth forecast for 2011 on Thursday, saying rising spending among consumers less worried about losing their jobs marked a turning point that had put the expansion on a
Three men involved in Europe's biggest illegal betting scandal were semntenced by a German court on Thursday to up to three years and 11 months in prison for trying to fix matches
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday the government would go ahead with the takeover of foreign companies, a scheme that has rattled investors, and told Western countries to stop meddling in
Lebanese border police detained two people trying to drive cars filled with weapons into Syria, where mass protests have been challenging President Bashar al-Assad's rule, security sources said on Thursday. "The cars
Rolls-Royce has signed a long term TotalCare services contract valued a $2.2 bln with Emirates, covering Trent engines for 70 Airbus A350XWB aircraft. This contract brings the airline’s entire Rolls-Royce powered fleet
