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A fire caused by faulty electrical equipment killed 13 boys at an Islamic school in Yangon on Tuesday, the fire service said, although some Muslims voiced concern because it came after a wave of anti-Muslim violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

The boys suffocated after the fire broke out in a dormitory of the school in the central, multiethnic Botataung district of the former capital at about 2:40 am, neighbors and officials said.

Professor Jonathan Wong, Department of Biology,  Hong Kong Baptist University

Hong Kong people dump an average 1.36 kg of solid waste every day, higher than that of other cities such as Taiwan at slightly over 1 kg daily. At present, only 48 percent of Hong Kong’s solid waste is recovered, recycled and reused, while the remainder is sent to landfills.

As a high-profile oncologist and pain-control expert, Liu Duanqi had never been faced with the prospect of cutting short a lecture when in full flow - or even how to react to a request to do so. That is, until he found himself in that situation when the suggestion was put forward, not so politely, by a municipal health officer at a relatively remote northern city around 12 years ago.

Japanese trade officials expect auto exports to China to recover by the second half of this year, to the same levels they were before the recent territorial dispute between the two countries.

She Xing, an economic officer at the Japan External Trade Organization, or JETRO, said on Wednesday that Japanese cars sales suffered a 40 percent decline in September in China.

But between October and December, monthly sales had risen gradually, thanks to a series of promotions by Japan's carmakers.

Qianhai's development as a special financial zone can benefit Hong Kong's private equity industry as it will provide a platform for fund managers to move capital around more easily, said PE fund managers.

Cross-border yuan loans from Hong Kong to Shenzhen's Qianhai district, a 15-square-kilometer financial pilot zone, are now permissible, according to a new rule unveiled earlier by the People's Bank of China in Shenzhen .

Executives in China expect digital marketing will boost their businesses as advertising costs on television and radio surge. Companies are set to spend more in the sector in 2013, an industry report shows.

As many as 81 percent of marketers in China believe digital marketing could create a competitive advantage for their company and 52 percent feel digital marketing is crucial in helping to create a customer-centric, responsive organization, said a report released by Adobe Systems Inc and the Chief Marketing Officer Council, an industry organization.

Chinese banks are encountering obstacles to their expansion in the City of London as financial regulations there become increasingly strict, a member of the City of London's advisory council for China said on Wednesday.

The tighter regulations will also weaken Britain as an international financial center, said Wang Jianxi, executive vice-president and chief risk officer at China Investment Corp.

More foreigners are employed by or showed a stronger interest in working for China-based companies against a backdrop of the rise of the country's economy and the global expansion of many Chinese firms.

Huawei Technologies Co, the world's second largest telecoms equipment maker by revenue, surprised people last year by inviting John Suffolk, former UK government chief information officer, to act as its global cyber security officer.

Unsatisfied with being just a market and testing ground for developed countries’ new reactor technologies, China is now looking to be an energetic developer of nuclear power plants around the world with ambitions to reshape the global nuclear industry.

A strong earthquake struck northern Myanmar on Sunday, collapsing a bridge and a gold mine, damaging several old Buddhist pagodas and leaving as many as 12 people feared dead. 

No casualties or major damage were reported in the nearest major population center, Myanmar's second-biggest city of Mandalay, about 117 kilometers south of the quake's epicenter near the town of Shwebo. 

Smaller towns closer to the quake's epicenter were worse-hit. 

Looking at the elegant lady in the pink, exquisite sari, you wouldn’t imagine she was once fazed by immense challenges. Yet before Ramya Weerakoon, a widow with two daughters running her handicraft business out of her bedroom, single-handedly grew it into Ramya Holding, a conglomerate with diversified businesses, life was a rollercoaster ride.

More than half of college students who will graduate next year are willing to accept a monthly salary of less than 4,000 yuan ($638), according to a survey released on Saturday. 

The survey, conducted by renren.com, a popular social networking website which launched its job-search service for graduates in July, ran from Aug 21 to Sept 16. 

It received more than 150,000 replies and had a valid sample of 94,739 college students who were expected to graduate next year, said Wang Xiehua, an officer from renren.com, on Monday.