Crude oil slipped for a second straight day on Thursday, weighed by weaker U.S. refined fuels markets and potential negative impact from Greece's debt crisis on European energy demand.

• June 25, 2015

China's three largest airline cargo carriers will merge to form Asia's largest freight transport company, a senior official at the Civil Aviation Administration of China was quoted as saying in media reports.

• June 25, 2015

China will add its assets and activities in space, the deep sea and polar regions to its pending national security law, state media said on Wednesday, the latest changes to the sweeping and controversial draft legislation.

• June 24, 2015

Greece presented new reform proposals on Monday which its euro zone partners cautiously welcomed as a possible basis for an agreement to unlock bailout funds needed to avert a possible debt default.

• June 23, 2015

The United States on Tuesday expressed deep concern about state-sponsored cyber theft and stressed the need to keep Asian sea lanes open at the start of annual talks with China, and said the world depended on the ability of the two countries to narrow their differences.

• June 23, 2015

Greece took a step back from the abyss on Monday when it presented new reform proposals that euro zone finance ministers cautiously welcomed as a possible basis for an agreement in the coming days to avert a looming default.

• June 22, 2015

Surging investment by Chinese companies in U.S. research labs is yielding a fast-growing trove of patents, part of a push to mine America for ideas to help China shift from being the world's factory floor to a driver of innovation.

• June 21, 2015

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies warned against giving in to Greece in order to keep it in the euro zone, with senior Christian Social Union lawmaker Hans Michelbach saying he saw no realistic chance of an agreement at an emergency summit on Monday.

• June 21, 2015