China
November 29, 2012
BEIJING--A Chinese naval flotilla sailed between two islands in the Okinawa chain Nov. 28, a maneuver that the state Xinhua News Agency called an exercise to escort a "large...
November 29, 2012
Chinese vehicle production from Toyota and other major Japanese automakers tumbled in October amid a territorial dispute between the two Asian powers that led to boycotts of...
November 28, 2012
GUANGZHOU, China--Japanese carmakers are pinning their hopes on the introduction of new SUV models to stage a sales recovery in China, where numbers have plummeted due to the...
November 28, 2012
Chinese imports from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations outstripped those from Japan in terms of value in the January-June period of this year.
November 28, 2012
BEIJING--The OECD cut its growth forecast for China's economy on Nov. 27, citing a still-unresolved euro zone crisis that could mute demand for Chinese exports for months to...
November 28, 2012
WASHINGTON--The Obama administration declined on Nov. 27 to label China a currency manipulator, noting that it has let the yuan rise nearly 10 percent in value against the...
November 27, 2012
As head of the Japan Restoration Party, Shintaro Ishihara aims to act as a third political force to counter the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and main opposition Liberal...
November 27, 2012
BEIJING--Lamenting the turmoil in bilateral relations that marked his 28 months in the post, Japan's outgoing ambassador to China, Uichiro Niwa, offered the following advice...
November 27, 2012
SHANGHAI--Attempting to calm public outrage, authorities in southwestern China punished local officials after five young boys died from carbon monoxide poisoning by lighting a...
November 26, 2012
"The post-American world," a notion elaborated in a book by Indian-born journalist Fareed Zakaria, provides a hint of how U.S. President Barack Obama sees the world.
November 25, 2012
BEIJING--In the middle of an eastern Chinese city's new main road, rising incongruously from a huge circle in the freshly laid pavement, is a five-story row house with ragged...
November 25, 2012
The air was charged with excitement as hundreds of people crowded into a central Beijing hotel conference room on the morning of Oct. 25, with lucrative Chinese shale gas...
November 25, 2012
In a corner of a vast plain of red soil in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, several large red trucks were parked side by side as if in battle formation. They were part of the...
November 24, 2012
NEW DELHI--New Delhi has responded to China's newly revised passports that show parts of Indian territory as part of China by issuing visas to Chinese citizens that show its...
November 24, 2012
North Korea tried to ship materials suitable for uranium enrichment or missile development to Myanmar via China this year, in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution,...
November 24, 2012
More than half of major companies in Japan assess business conditions as being "at a temporary standstill," or more than double that said so five months ago, an Asahi Shimbun...
November 24, 2012
DONGGUAN, China—An unofficial but broad boycott of Japanese products is continuing in China, keeping sales depressed for Nissan Motor Co., a senior company official has said.
November 23, 2012
SHANGHAI--China sacked on Nov. 23 a district Communist Party official after images of him having sex with his mistress were splashed across microblog websites.
November 23, 2012
GUANGZHOU, China--Japanese automakers who suffered a sharp drop in sales this autumn amid anti-Japan protests here are reporting positive indicators once more as they pitch for ...
November 23, 2012
YANGON, Myanmar--Planning for one of the largest industrial parks in Asia is under way in Myanmar, a country taking steps to end its military dictatorship, institute democratic ...