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An American geologist held and tortured by China's state security agents was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for gathering data on the Chinese oil industry in a case that highlights the government's use of vague secrets laws to restrict business information.

Google Inc. said Tuesday it will stop automatically routing users in China to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license in their latest skirmish over censorship.

The Dow industrials fell below 10,000 again after an index of China’s economy was revised downward.

China and Taiwan, political rivals separated by 60 years of history and hostility, highlighted their growing economic links Tuesday by signing a trade cooperation agreement that could dramatically increase the flow of goods across the narrow Taiwan Strait.

Asia-Pacific millionaires are collectively worth more than their European counterparts for the first time, with the rich in China and India leading the way, a study said Wednesday.

Stocks extended their winning streak Monday after China said it would allow its currency to appreciate against the dollar, a move that could provide a boost for U.S. manufacturers and exporters ...

An underground explosion in a coal mine in central China's Henan Province trapped at least 58 miners early Monday, Chinese state media reported.

The announcement, which you can read in English here, means the end of nearly two years of fixing the Chinese currency to the U.S. dollar, a move that most economists, including many in China, believe is on balance good for both the world and China in the long run. It will make China the most popular attendee at next week's meeting of the G-20 nations in Canada, and it will please traders who have been betting China will allow the yuan to appreciate.

China filed a formal complaint after the shooting by a North Korean border guard last week.

The cost of doing business in China is going up, and that could drive up consumer prices in the United States and Europe.