Stock markets in Asia and Europe are posting gains Thursday, despite warnings China's economy is slowing down.

There is no strong empirical evidence that inflation in China has a significant impact on inflation in the US and Japan. According to a study in China and World Economy published by Wiley-Blackwell, the recent rise in Chinese prices is unlikely to affect Japan or the US. Conversely, there is evidence that the inflation in the US has had some impact on Chinese inflation.

Southeast Asia will face stiffer export competition from China and likely bear the brunt of any impact in Asia from a major economic slowdown in the United States, an IMF official has said.

Hong Kong continues to top a list of the world's freest economies and the Philippines posted a record balance of payments surplus in 2007. Claudia Blume at VOA's Asia News Center in Hong Kong has more on these and other business stories from the region.

A U.S. envoy said Tuesday that China had to move more quickly to implement needed economic reforms or would face major risks to its economy.

Even though China’s rapid economic expansion slowed slightly in September, the growth of its industrial production speeded up, according to data released Friday.

Tightening measures reduced speed of China's quick-growing economy in the third quarter. The peak of the latest boom has passed, economists reported .

A commissar like Wen Jiabao can not overcome the jeopardy in China today.

Spiral of rising prices in China and the CPC privileged group's spontaneous disintegration.

The invested interests spend so much national wealth in preparing the Olympic Games to blandish the international community, launch so much propaganda about the 2008 Olympics to gloss over official corruption and social inequality!

Automakers are ramping up their operations in China to take advantage of record-breaking growth in vehicle sales. China replaced Japan last year as the world's second-biggest auto market, and industry experts predict the growth will continue as the country's booming economy encourages greater consumption of luxury goods.

China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks both yuan-denominated A shares and hard-currency B shares, rose 3.03 percent on Thursday, or 114.48 points, to close at 3,890.80 points.