How Foxconn could shape future of struggling Sharp

BEIJING (AP) — Suntech, one of the world's biggest solar panel manufacturers, said Monday it has defaulted on a $541 million bond payment in the latest sign of the financial squeeze on the struggling global solar industry. Suntech Power Holdings Ltd.'s a

18 March 2013 Last updated at 21:43 ET Global solar panel makers have been hurt by a sharp decline in prices in recent years China's Suntech Power Holdings, the world's biggest solar panel maker, has defaulted on its debt. The firm said it had failed to

While fears about the safety of Chinese food products are often well founded, in Vietnam they are so tangled up with anti-Chinese sentiment it is hard to tell where one begins and the other ends. More than 1,000 years of occupation, a bloody border war i

HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a break from months of saber rattling, China under new President Xi Jinping appears to be moderating its approach to a potentially explosive territorial dispute with Japan and taking measures to prevent accidental conflict. Ahead

A Suntech Power Holdings Corp booth at the China Photovoltaic Conference and International Photovoltaic Exhibition in Beijing last year. Industrial analysts said the solar panel maker may go bankrupt if it fails to restructure its heavy debts. Wu Changqi

China has for some time been subsidizing its solar industry and betting big on clean energy. But the huge bet seems to be crumbling now, and at the center of it is Suntech Power Holdings, one of the world's biggest solar panel-makers. They argued that Ch