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Olympic medallist Denis Ten from Kazakhstan will face tough competition at the Four Continents figure skating championships in Taipei.

• 17 февраля 2016, 15:26

Chinese consortium led by the Golden Brick Silk Road investment fund offered 10.5 billion kroner ($1.2 billion) to take over Opera Software

• 10 февраля 2016, 18:32

Warming temperatures are causing about half of the world's plants and animals to move location, with every major type of species affected.

• 10 февраля 2016, 17:58

Moscow warned Washington that deployment of a US missile defence system to South Korea could spark an arms race in the region.

• 10 февраля 2016, 15:11

Official moves towards the deployment -- fiercely opposed by China -- of a US missile defence system in South Korea highlight the inherent dangers of disunity in dealing with North Korea's growing military threat.

• 08 февраля 2016, 15:11

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Taiwan highlighted what is needed to build a structure that can withstand seismic shocks.

• 08 февраля 2016, 14:53

A Japanese firm said Monday it would open the world's first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process.

• 01 февраля 2016, 18:12

French car giant Renault opened its first car factory in China.

• 01 февраля 2016, 18:03

China is planning to build a floating nuclear power station as it seeks to double its atomic capacity by 2020.

• 27 января 2016, 15:23

Thailand's air safety body warned passengers that lucky 'child angel' dolls cannot be considered real people and must be properly stowed.

• 27 января 2016, 15:12

Kazakhstan denounced North Korea’s test of hydrogen bomb and violation of UN Security Council’s nonproliferation resolutions.

• 06 января 2016, 21:47

North Korea said it had successfully tested a miniature hydrogen bomb. If confirmed, this would place it among a small group of countries with such dangerous weapons.

• 06 января 2016, 19:24

Chinese powerhouse Dalian Wanda is reportedly in talks to buy a controlling stake in US film studio Legendary, providing the company with a key anchor in Hollywood.

• 05 января 2016, 19:08

China adopted its first counter-terrorism law Sunday: its provisions may tighten media controls and threaten the intellectual property of foreign firms.

• 28 декабря 2015, 13:38

A roar erupted at the Yangon ring as the home champion ploughed a right hook into his American opponent's face, crumpling him to the canvas in the opening round of the bone-crunching kickboxing bout.

• 25 декабря 2015, 17:30

Mitsubishi Heavy is postponing delivery of the first made-in-Japan passenger jet, a little more than a month after its maiden test flight.

• 24 декабря 2015, 16:54

Australian shopping centre giant Westfield Corp. said Monday it has offloaded five US malls for US$1.1 billion to divest non-core assets.

• 21 декабря 2015, 12:26

Beijing has ordered 2,100 factories to suspend or reduce production as part of its 'red alert' measures to deal with smog.

• 21 декабря 2015, 12:20

China's coal industry is now crippled by oversupply, but its companies are too big to fail.

• 09 декабря 2015, 17:54

Japanese Buddhist monks strutted their stuff in a contest highlighting sutra chanting skills, giving funeral sermons and loud karate chops.

• 09 декабря 2015, 17:41