China's economic growth will continue to ease this year, presenting policymakers in Beijing with the challenge of preventing an excessively abrupt slowdown, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned a Chinese “para-police” force nicknamed “X-Men” by the local media, accusing it of rampant brutality and illegal detentions for even minor offences.

Japan on Wednesday posted a bigger-than-expected trade deficit in April, as surging energy costs pushed up imports while shipments to China — its biggest market — fell from a year ago.

China said Wednesday it has cancelled a high-level military trip to Japan, as the two neighbors bicker over a disputed island chain and a recent Uyghur symposium in Tokyo that angered Beijing.

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Beijing next month, the close ally China said on Wednesday, as a crisis over Tehran's nuclear program escalates.

China's Cabinet promised Wednesday to step up efforts to reverse a steep slowdown in the world's second-largest economy and said it would encourage private investment in energy and other state-dominated industries.

After Wang Jihong's trading firm, which has been struggling to export textiles to markets like Europe and South America, eked out a tiny profit in the first quarter of this year, she hoped the worst was over.

China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury's first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters.

A 31-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who was once one of the nation's wealthiest women has been spared the death penalty, an official said Tuesday, after her original sentence sparked a public outcry.

Casino industry leaders gathered in the world's gambling capital of Macau on Tuesday for the Global Gaming Expo Asia, a three-day feast of gambling innovations at the glitzy Venetian hotel.