In South Korea, free-to-air mobile TV is a five-year-old fact of life.
According to the country’s broadcasters, 27 million people — 56 percent of the population — watch regularly.
While South Koreans are the world leaders in mobile TV viewing, the technology is also catching on in China, southeast Asia, India, Africa and Latin America,
where 80 million people now have cellphones that can receive free, live TV broadcasts.
The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan,
far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,
according to senior American government officials.
While it may seem only tangentially related to the usual concerns of EconomyWatch.com, the debate over whether Yao Ming’s US-born daughter should receive American or Chinese citizenship
opens an interesting window into the current state of discourse in China about a number of critical political economic topics.
ZHONGSHAN, China — Striking workers at a Honda auto parts factory here in southeastern China have won higher wages — but not necessarily for themselves.
Factory managers began hiring a steady stream of replacement workers on Sunday, and a significant number of strikers went back to work after increases in wages and benefits, even as many others remained on strike.
A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine,
surpassing European and Japanese systems and underscoring China’s aggressive commitment to science and technology.
MIYAZAKI, Japan — It is a calamity for this quiet cattle community.
A prized black calf born last fall will soon be killed, part of the mass destruction of livestock in Japan’s battle against its worst foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in at least a century.
To: Wall Street chief executives
From: Your man in Washington
Re: Embracing the status quo
THE Paramount Bay condominium is a 47-story steel-and-glass cadaver in Miami.
Conceived at the height of the real estate boom as another ultraluxury tower in a city that would soon be choking on them,
it looms unfinished and unoccupied on Biscayne Bay.
A Japanese technology giant little known outside Asia is racing to capture the booming Chinese Internet market.
And in the process, it hopes to become a global player straddling what is fast becoming the world’s most wired region.
The new leader of the restive region of Xinjiang in western China has announced a series of economic measures to bolster confidence in the regional government,
which was widely criticized by citizens after deadly ethnic rioting there last summer.
