Here are today's headlines from Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …

A Red Tibetan Mastiff has become the world's most expensive dog, after a Chinese coal baron purchased the pup for over $1.5 million, the Daily Ma…

A surprise from China today — the country said it bought more goods from around the world than it sold. It's called a trade deficit. And China…

Forbes has released its 2011 list of world billionaires. Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim tops the list for the second year in a row, but for the first time, the Asia-Pacific region had more billionaires than Europe.

China's trade deficit hit $7.3 billion in February — the largest in seven years. Analysts blame the gap on mass celebrations of the Lunar New Year.

Today President Obama is expected to nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to be the new U.S. Ambassador to China. He'd be the first Chinese-Ame…

President Obama is expected to nominate Locke to represent the U.S. in Beijing. Locke would be the first Chinese-American to serve in the post, and has worked on trade with China before.

As unrest continues in the North Africa and the Middle East, China hopes to prevent similar protests with a new five-year plan to fight inflation and low wages. Rob Schmitz explains.

The government of China says it will track the movements of 17 million citizens in Beijing. The government says they're doing it in hopes of…

The U.S. Treasury Department has revised China's holdings of U.S. debt to $1.16 trillion. As Nancy Marshall Genzer explains, that is considerably more than previously report.