China’s property prices slowed for an eighth month in December after the government expanded measures to limit the risk of asset bubbles in the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Property prices in 70 cities rose 6.4 percent in December from a year earlier, China Information News, the statistics bureau’s newspaper, reported Monday. That’s slower than the 7.7 percent increase in November, and t

Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will sell 9 million to 12 million iPhones this year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing analyst estimates. The lower number would boost Apple Inc.’s overall sales by 5 percent, according to Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos., the Journal said. The iPhone may capture 5 percent of Verizon’s customers in its first quarter on s

KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) ― Tiger Woods has one less endorsement deal, ending his 13-year relationship with golf’s biggest magazine when they couldn’t agree on how many hours he should devote to the job.Golf Digest, with a circulation of 1.65 million, announced Thursday the mutual end of a relationship that began at the 1997 Masters. He made his debut in the magazine in June that year, and the endorsem

The number of victims is estimated at 400,000, with most from Korea, China and the Philippines. Women from the Netherlands, Burma, Taiwan and other countries were also coerced to work as sex slaves during the war. Victims testify that they were forced to handle more than 20 soldiers a day, threatened with death and often assaulted. They said violence and humiliation were everyday occurrences and t