Eleven global music giants have sued Yahoo! China, owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba, over its alleged involvement in illegal downloading and playing copyrighted music.
In photos: When people go to the heights of danger for a 'cool' selfie.
'Both Japan and China face a common challenge: How to deal with Trump.' 'The trade war with the US seems to have facilitated/hastened Abe's China visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister since 2011,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
The US dollar surged to fresh one-year high after the Fed chief's testimony to the US Senate on Wednesday bolstered the expectations of interest rate hikes, though gradually.
Chinese brokers had been looking to use some of the cash they raised this year to expand their global reach
Yuan has a pleasant surprise up his sleeve for the Tamil film music fans; his father Ilayaraja has rendered one of Yuvan's compositions in this album and incidentally it is the pick of this five-track album.
A man was caught with 94 iPhones attached to his body with cling film and sticky tape in China.
Growth was 11.1 per cent in the first quarter, 11.9 per cent in the second, 11.5 per cent in the third but slowed down to 11.2 per cent in the fourth, according to figures released at a press conference in Beijing by NBS head Xie Fuzhan. China's red hot economy has continued to expand at a fast pace, despite a slew of measures including frequent hikes in interest rates and in the proportion of funds banks must hold in reserve, to cool it.
The American started her Australian Open title defence with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Jarmila Gajdosova in the first round.
India on Saturday strongly demanded creation of global safety nets to address concerns over volatility in currency movements and markets.
Markets across the globe gained after China Securities Regulator removed its four-day-old circuit-breaker system.
China's Yuan Meng beat Indian 16th seed Sania Mirza 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the WTA tournament in Los Angeles.
Roger Federer opens his title defence while Tim Henman starts another year of hope at Wimbledon on Monday.
The rupee closed at Rs 66.21 in its last trading session.
Experts believe human activities in the region make Great Wall protection extremely difficult.
Buoyed by rapid growth in domestic consumption as well as exports, China's sizzling economy grew by 11.1 per cent in the first quarter this year though it raised concerns of overheating.
In his address at the Plenary session of the 18th SCO summit in Qingdao, Modi coined an acronym 'SECURE' which he explained: 'S' for security for citizens, 'E' for economic development, 'C' for connectivity in the region, 'U' for unity, 'R' for respect of sovereignty and integrity, 'E' for environment protection.
The growth was 0.5 percentage points higher from the same period last year, latest figures from thellion yuan in the first half of the year.
The top seeds scored a straight sets victory over the Colombian-Chinese pair of Catalina Castano and Meng Yuan.
'Invest a part of your portfolio in a global currency that can't be printed, or meddled with -- gold,' suggests Chirag Mehta.
Buoyed by record foreign trade, surging fixed investments and industrial production, China's GDP soared by an impressive 10.7 per cent in 2006.
The yuan-denominated A-share market of China will become world's third largest stock market in the next ten years - after the stocks markets of United States and Japan, an expert from Goldman Sachs Group (Asia) Ltd. said.
Palm oil prices are rising to record levels these days because China and India are stepping up purchases.
The rupee continued to resist the pressure from oil companies and appreciated marginally against the US currency in Wednesday morning dealings.
China's opening up of its banking sector to foreign competition has not brought cheers for the Indian banks as overseas banks seeking entry into the country must bring in 200 million yuan.
China's first regulation on the protection of the Great Wall came into effect last Friday.
China Chongqing Yuan Innovation Technology Group, a Chinese firm, is exploring the possibility of setting up a $10 million plant in India to manufacture motorcycles and spare parts.
Property giant Dalian Wanda Group Co said on Wednesday it would buy a stake in Spanish soccer champions Atletico Madrid for 45 million euros ($52 million), becoming the first Chinese company to invest in a premier European football club.
Pakistan will acquire at least eight modified diesel-electric attack submarines from China by 2028 in a nearly $5 billion (Rs 33,479 crore) agreement, said to be the biggest arms export deal for the Communist giant.
The third seeds beat the Chinese-Uzbek pair of Meng Yuan and Varvara Lepchenko in the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Open.
Sania Mirza and Marta Domachowska beat Natalie Grandin and Milagros Sequera 6-4, 6-3 in the first round in Cincinnati
Doting Chinese parents spend nearly $29 billion annually on their offspring, mostly a single child, while teenagers splurge around $7.5 billion from their pocket money, a survey has found.\n\n
Yuan Xiaochao's gold in the Chinese martial art of wushu pushed them beyond their 2002 mark of 150 and they continued racking up the golds throughout the day.
Dealers attributed the fall to the dollar's gains after China devalued yuan, which pushed up demand from importers for the US currency.
The Indian teenager was beaten by Yuan Kartika of Indonesia in her second qualifying match at the Indonesia Open badminton championships.
The Beijing Olympics in 2008 will generate 1.8 million new jobs in the host city, says the Beijing Municipal statistics Bureau.
Japan's Nikkei fell 0.5% and South Korea's Kospi lost 1.3%.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens.
East China, which is the worst affected region, faces another typhoon on Monday
'Clearly, the depositors of cooperative banks need the maximum protection.'
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