A slowdown in the global economy is set to hit emerging giants China and India, while Japan is still set for a rebound, the OECD said.

Tuyet Lan, runner-up of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2010, will be in China to compete in the “2011 Elite Model Look World” contest to be held in Shanghai.

China, already home to the world's largest online population, is likely to replace the United States as the biggest e-commerce market by 2015, according to new research.

Nineteen people, 17 of them children, were killed in a collision between an overloaded school bus and a truck in northwestern China on Wednesday, local authorities and state media said.

China's financial system is at risk from bad loans, booming private lending and sharp falls in property prices, the IMF warned.