A company controlled by Warren Buffett will buy a 10% holding in the Chinese electric carmaker and rechargeable battery producer for HK$1.8bn, a deal that marks the billionaire investor's first strategic investment in the mainland

Washington and Islamabad need to agree on ways to isolate and crush the jihadis before they penetrate the Pakistani mainstream

The financial and economic troubles of the US may be no laughing matter for China and India. For all the increased and justified confidence in both countries, China and India are both still very vulnerable to a downturn in the US, writes Gideon Rachman

A company controlled by Warren Buffett has agreed to take a 10 per cent stake in BYD, a Chinese electric carmaker, in the billionaire investor's first strategic investment on the mainland

Trading in shares of BYD Electronic was suspended after the stock jumped as much as 72 percent on hopes that the firm would benefit from the sale of a 10 percent stake in its parent, BYD, to a unit of US billionaire Warren Buffett