Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said on a conference call that the sales points of his company's popular iPhones have been doubled in China; with the result that Apple's revenue in the world's biggest handset market has witnessed a noteworthy 67 percent increase.

With the South Africa's antitrust regulator Competition Tribunal giving a conditional approval to the Glencore International's $36 billion acquisition of coal producer Xstrata on Tuesday, the sole outstanding requirement for the merger transaction to go ahead is an approval from China.

With dangerously high levels of air pollution prompting the authorities in Beijing to order factories to halt their operations, experts have warned that the high air-pollution levels and the emergency responses being taken to tackle the problem can have an adverse effect on the Chinese economy and tourism.

Reporting about a recent protest by over 1,000 employees of a Foxconn supplier in China, labor protection group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) revealed that the workers went on a strike in persistence with their demand for improved salaries.

According to the information shared on the website of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the organization's chief Miao Wei met with Apple CEO Tim Cook - who is on his second trip to the company after taking over the proceedings at Apple - on Friday to discuss the country's IT industry, global mobile communications, as well as Apple's operations.

In a move which underscores Huawei's attempts to venture into the Western markets, the China-based electronics company has unveiled two key mobile devices at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2103 in Las Vegas.

In a move which will mark a notable advancement in the direction of establishing China's crude oil futures contract in the later part of 2013, a test run of Shanghai Futures Exchange's international trading platform will be held today, January 8.

With recent Chinese state media reports having revealed that the new Communist Party leadership intends rolling out `real-name registration' regulations for all Chinese Internet users, there are clearly no signs of any relaxation in the online restrictions in the country.