As China's stock market rises from the turmoil, Chinese video streaming website operator YY Inc and online retailer E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc announced that they have received buyout proposals, adding to a record number of United States-listed Chinese firms going private.
Singapore-based investment company Temasek Holdings (Private) Ltd announced on Friday that it regarded China as a very important market and would continue to seek investment opportunities in the Chinese finance sector and those related to the nation's economic transition.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd was put under the spotlight after police detained Patrick Liu, president of the e-commerce giant's digital entertainment unit.
It is hard for Alex Wolf to believe that the Chinese officials he met four months ago are the same ones running the world's second-largest stock market today.
The big tent's lights are out and the stars of the show, seven Bengal tigers, pace restlessly in cages, waiting for new homes following legislation banning circus animals in Mexico.
An Australian study involving more than 450,000 smokers has found that the weight gained by those who gave up smoking was significantly less than expected.
Russia vetoed on Wednesday a draft UN Security Council resolution commemorating the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Serb Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, citing the term "genocide" used to describe the mass slaying.
The US and United Arab Emeriates launched a new Middle East digital communications center on Wednesday that focuses on using social media to counter Islamic State's propaganda efforts online.
Myanmar's president reaffirmed his vow on Thursday to hold a "free and fair" election after the country set the date for what many hope will be the most democratic vote in a generation.
Malaysia circulated a draft UN resolution on Wednesday to establish an international tribunal that it said would guarantee an independent trial for those behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine.
Greece's government is racing to finalize a plan of reforms for its third bailout, hoping this time the proposal will meet with approval from its European partners and stave off a potentially catastrophic exit from Europe's joint currency, the euro, within days.
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the civil war ravaging their country to become refugees in the surrounding region - a million of them in the past 10 months alone, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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