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BYD, the Chinese battery and car maker backed by Warren Buffett, said it will kick off investor meetings for its domestic IPO on Thursday.

Real estate prices in China's capital city saw a sizeable correction last month. Is it a new trend?

Cuba and China have signed a series of economic accords that include the expansion of an oil refinery in Cienfuegos.

China should guard against risks from "excessive" holdings of U.S. assets as Washington could pursue a policy to weaken the dollar, a senior official at the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said in comments published on Tuesday.

Chinese security forces rounded up more government critics ahead of Saturday's anniversary.

The rising labor costs for companies that supply Chinese goods to the West may result in higher consumer prices.

"I come from the orcs, we eat with spoons and forks, we love to eat our pork!" That's the sound of a male orc in online roleplaying behemoth World of Warcraft. In China, it may also be the sound of an orc male working on the chain gang, by which I mean an actual Chinese prisoner playing an orc male in Blizzard's mega-MMO to rack up very serious (and very real) coin for Chinese prison guards.

This week saw what appeared to be a re-injection of warmth and energy in relations between two longtime ideological allies with a shared history of fighting side by side in war. No. Not that “special relationship” between the U.S. and U.K. That other one, between North Korea and China.

Yahoo executives said they had made "significant progress" with Alibaba Group to settle a row over ownership of a key unit that affects the value of the U.S. Internet giant's investment in its Chinese partner.

The operator of China's giant Three Gorges Dam plans a financial overhaul after the government admitted the project had environmental and economic problems.