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As China's youth excercise their new-found wealth and independence the battle for their custom is hotting up. Engine of change: rock band The Wheels are example of a newly expressive youth in China It could have been any other...
Chinese brides, who value platinum partly because it goes so well with a white wedding dress, are on course to snap up enough of the metal to make up for a fall in demand from the auto components industry
The US is concerned about the impact of the trade treaty on the car industry. South Korean officials have dampened speculation that the country is willing to re-negotiate a free trade agreement with the US. The move comes a day...
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee split three ways when it last voted on policy on November 5. David Miles, the recent recruit from the City of London, wanted to print an additional £40bn. The UK central bank's...
Despite their improvement and reaching a fourth finals, Japan could still find themselves over-powered at World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Get in: Japan's team, including Shinji Okazaki (left), Yuki Abe (centre) and Shunsuke...
North Korea bring with them memories of 1966, but remain an unknown quantity at World Cup 2010. Balancing act: North Korea players, bound for World Cup 2010, in training Photo: REUTERS The Coach: Kim Jong-Hun (North Korean). WC...
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic course Negotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume . Sadly, they are...
Nov 20 - As the world celebrates Universal Children's Day, many Chinese children still have to study up to 70 hours a week to get ahead. Kitty Bu reports. No videos currently selected. Click on any video below, from any...
South Korea qualified easily for a seventh consecutive World Cup, but they lack the firepower to hurt the big beasts. The good times: South Korea reached the World Cup semi-finals on home soil in 2002 Photo: EPA South Korea...
By Alan Beattie, the FT’s world trade editor Look, not my specialist subject, but here’s my eurocent’s-worth on the appointment of the Baroness High Representative and the Lord High Everything Else. (Incidentally, I’d have...
