Highlights
DJs, volleyball, a sand-sculpting contest and concerts - not your usual welcome for the annual BRICS summit. The GlobalPost reports. |
Get a front row seat to the historic changes shaping the world's second-largest economy with the new CNBC show Inside China. |
The weak yen could do more harm than good to Japan's economy, one economist warns. |
The Indian stock market has been one of the biggest laggards this year, but some strategists are betting on a change in fortunes for the country's stocks. |
The BlackBerry Z10 hits store shelves Friday and there's a lot at stake for the company. But with the Android and iPhone -- is there even room for the new BlackBerry? |
From what the world has seen so far of China's new leaders, Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang have learnt a thing or two from Western spin-doctors. During his first annual press conference as premier last Sunday, Mr Li's words and demeanor were carefully crafted to present him as a peasant boy done good. The Financial Times reports. |
Extreme bearish forecasts for iron ore prices to drop to as low as $70 a metric ton are an overreaction to the oversupply situation in the sector, said the CEO of the world's fourth largest iron ore producer. |
Google's YouTube said the number of unique users visiting the video-sharing website every month has reached 1 billion. |
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's $4 dumpling lunch in Beijing has won him praise among twitterati. |
Chinese stocks are headed for a correction of up to 15 percent in the next two months, one technical analyst says. |
David Beckham arrived in China on Tuesday as an ambassador to help develop young players as the country tries to clean up its football image after a spate of corruption scandals. |
A watch phone? Sounds like something TV private eye Maxwell Smart would have. But as smartphone sales slow, both Samsung and Apple are said to be working on them. |
North Koreans appear to be having little trouble taking home the latest cameras, flat-screen TVs and other items from China despite U.N. sanctions. |
Asian equities could deliver gains of 20 percent by the end of the year, according to HSBC. |
More Chinese companies are investing in Australia's manufacturing and retail industries than its once sought-after mining sector, a new study by HSBC shows. |
Guaranteed for 25 years, a British bedmaker's Mongolian cashmere mattress "pays off every morning of your life," said a company representative. |
If you follow Chinese politics at all, you'll have heard of a word that's become synonymous with corruption and privilege — "princeling," the offspring of Chinese party officials. However, there are signs that these princelings could soon be replaced — by a new, female generation of "princesslings." The GlobalPost reports. |
Women who drink, long portrayed as less than respectable by Bollywood movies and still wary of entering most watering holes, are becoming big business in socially conservative India. |
Despite Xi Jinping's signal to reform, many experts are skeptical if the son of a revolutionary hero will be able to push for radical change. |
China has bypassed Britain as the world's fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think-tank said Monday. |
Economist Joseph Stiglitz says global economies can learn from Singapore's model of social equity. The New York Times reports. |
Bumbling and gaffe-prone, Major General Mao Xinyu has become the laughingstock for a country with increasingly mixed attitudes towards its most celebrated leader. The Global Post reports. |
Fears in China are rife that pollution is out of control after 6,000 dead pigs were cleared from a Shanghai river. |
Hong Kong plays host to a different type of art fair this weekend - one aimed at regular folks. |
CNBC finds out the answer at Southeast Asia's first event dedicated to the art of your morning brew. |
US presidents have long deployed their wives to broaden their appeal. Now Xi Jinping, China's incoming head of state, is getting in on the act. The Financial Times reports. |
Rapid development at the expense of China's natural environment has become a major cause for discontent in the world's second largest economy, but now the government is finally bowing to public outcry, says a leading environmentalist. |
It is likely to be tough, but China's new leadership needs to do less and not more if it wants an economy driven by consumption rather than investment and exports. |
Revenue of global smartphone applications in 2012 totaled $15 billion, the size of Jamaica's GDP. |
China's increasingly vocal army of netizens could pose one of the biggest challenges to the new leadership. |