Sharapova sets up Li final Sky Sports | Maria Sharapova will face China's Li Na in the final of the Rome Masters following a 6-3 6-4 triumph over Germany's Angelique Kerber. | The Russian required 89 minutes to despatch Kerber, whose move into the WTA top-10 on Monday will complete a line-up for 10 different nationalities at the summit ...
Wheat, gold make stunning runs in nervous markets The Times Of India Tweet | NEW YORK: Wheat charged higher on Friday to post its biggest weekly gain in 16 years and gold continued its recovery from four-month lows as commodity markets saw selective buying amid lingering worries about the euro zone. | Prices of crude oil and copper -- two of the biggest industrial co...
From M&S to whisky – China's middle class snap up western goods The Guardian | British food and drink producers and retailers are proving there really is a market for selling tea to China Biscuits line a shelf in a Tesco store in Beijing. British brands, such as Weetabix and Tyrrells crisps, are proving an unexpected hit with...
PIPER: We Asked 51 Chinese Truckers How They Really Feel About Natural Gas Business Insider | When you're putting together your investment thesis on natural gas, are you taking into account what the Chinese truckers are saying? Now you can. Piper Jaffray just asked exactly 51 of these guys what they thought about the viability of natural ga...
Sharapova sets up Li final Sky Sports | Maria Sharapova will face China's Li Na in the final of the Rome Masters following a 6-3 6-4 triumph over Germany's Angelique Kerber. | The Russian required 89 minutes to despatch Kerber, whose move into the WTA top-10 on Monday will complete a lin...
AP / Wally Santana
China shadow looming, Taiwan's Ma set for 2nd term The Guardian | TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou is set to begin his second presidential term caught between China's desire to exert greater influence over his democratic island and...
China tops India in gold demand for second quarter The Times Of India Tweet MUMBAI: China's gold demand surpassed India's for the second successive quarter, growing at an annual rate of 10% to 255.2 tonne in the January-March 2012 period while sales ...
We simply love our 'chai' The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetWe simply love our 'chai' (Thinkstock photos/Getty Images) | Even as talks are on to make tea as India's national drink, the humble 'chai' has come a long...
China's Chen Guangcheng 'set to fly to US' BBC News Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. | The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believe...
Man honored after rescue China Daily Josep Sola-Niubo and Tang Shanlu with the boy they saved and his mother in Changshu, Jiangsu province, on Tuesday. Du Haibo / for China Daily | ...
World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries The Boston Globe | BANGKOK-World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. | The fall in European shares followed a sharp downturn in Asia where markets were also rattled by weak U.S. manufacturing figures. | The nervousness about Spain's banks co...
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term Denver Post | BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight. | The official Xinhua News Agency reported that Lai Changxing was convicted and sentence...
