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U.S. casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. plans to resume work in January on its multibillion-dollar gambling resorts in Macau after suspending construction last year amid a massive funding crunch, the company said.
A U.S. Navy admiral expressed new concern Friday over China's military buildup and urged Beijing to be clearer about its intentions.
It's a price tag that would make even New Yorkers and Londoners gasp — an outsized luxury apartment sold for nearly $57 million in Hong Kong Wednesday amid growing fears of a real estate bubble.
Family and lawyers of an exiled leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests pressed for his release Monday, nearly a year after he was sent to a mainland Chinese jail while trying to return to his homeland.
Billionaire Steve Wynn's Macau casino company jumped 13 percent in its trading debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange Friday, reflecting stronger faith in the southern Chinese gambling city's prospects.
The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour, the head of the news organization said Tuesday.
Yang Rong was once celebrated as a pioneering automobile entrepreneur who founded the first Chinese company to be listed on Wall Street.
World markets retreated Friday as weaker-than-expected reports about U.S. jobs and manufacturing deepened fears of an anemic recovery in the world's largest economy.
Months after abruptly resigning as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin resurfaced in Hong Kong more moderate in tone and better versed in international affairs, possibly laying the first brick for a 2012 White House bid.
Asian markets were mostly lower Friday after setting new highs for the year, with Tokyo shares down almost 1 percent amid news a major Japanese consumer finance firm was unable to pay its debts.
International air travel, whacked by the economic downturn, is starting to stabilize but may not recover until 2011 as companies and passengers continue to scale back, executives at aviation giants Boeing Co. and Airbus SAS said Wednesday.
China showcased its newest and biggest commercial plane Tuesday — a jetliner with as many as 200 seats that could boost the country's fledgling aviation industry to compete with Western rivals like Boeing Co. and Airbus.
Apple Inc. will get to sell the iPhone in the world's biggest cell phone market now that it has reached a deal with a Chinese wireless carrier, China Unicom Ltd.
European stocks rose Thursday ahead of expected gains on Wall Street after the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged and was widely expected to revise up its economic outlook.
Hong Kong's economy broke out of a yearlong recession in the second quarter as the territory benefited from strong growth in mainland China and better conditions in the West, the government said Friday.
Asian stock markets mostly rose Thursday led by Hong Kong and Japan despite weak economic data that sent Wall Street lower and worries about tighter monetary policy that dragged down China shares. European markets rose.
Asian stock markets fell Thursday, with Chinese shares leading the decline amid concerns the recent rally was overdone.
Asian stock markets climbed Thursday amid sustained hopes for a recovery in major economies from Japan to the U.S.
Asian stock markets gained ground Thursday as stronger growth in China and upbeat U.S. company earnings reassured investors that the world economy was headed toward recovery.
Hong Kong lawmakers said Saturday they would be unwilling to approve a plan to expand the city's Disneyland unless the government and Walt Disney Co. tell them how the theme park has performed since it opened in 2005.
Asian stock markets advanced Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said the world's largest economy is shrinking at a slower pace and scotched fears of an inflation threat, underpinning investor hopes for recovery. European shares opened lower.
Asian stock markets advanced Thursday, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei index rising above 10,000 for the first time in eight months amid cautious optimism that the region is slowly moving toward recovery.
The City of Dreams, a massive casino resort in Macau, was unveiled Monday in the latest multibillion-dollar bet that this once seedy Chinese gambling enclave will become one of the world's top tourist destinations.
World stock markets rose Wednesday despite mounting tensions in the Korean peninsula, as investors continued to warm to hopes that the U.S. economy has seen off the worst of the economic recession and may start to grow later this year.
Asian stocks foundered Tuesday as the United Nations condemned North Korea's nuclear test and investors awaited more clues about the health of the world economy.
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