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Saudi Arabia ends major anti-corruption campaign

Saudi Arabia ends major anti-corruption campaign

-- 2019-01-31 13:13:52

Saudi Arabia has ended a sweeping crackdown on corruption ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that it said had recovered more than $106 billion through settlements with scores of senior prince...

SE Asia stocks gain on Fed decision

SE Asia stocks gain on Fed decision

-- 2019-01-31 12:02:38

Southeast Asian stocks rose on Thursday, in line with broader Asia, as the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady while signalling its three-year drive to tighten monetary policy may be at an e...

Nigeria rival candidate to consider amnesty for graft suspects

Nigeria rival candidate to consider amnesty for graft suspects

-- 2019-01-31 11:40:54

Nigerian opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar said on Wednesday he would consider an amnesty for corruption suspects in order to help recover billions of dollars stashed abroad by the coun...

US Fed holds rates steady, signals pause

US Fed holds rates steady, signals pause

-- 2019-01-31 11:38:12

The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday left interest rates unchanged as expected and pledged to be patient about future rate hikes. In support of the goals to foster maximum employment and price stabili...

Polar vortex strikes US Midwest, causing multiple deaths

Polar vortex strikes US Midwest, causing multiple deaths

-- 2019-01-31 10:56:33

Cities are all but shutting down across the US Midwest as the region shivers in a deadly cold snap known as a polar vortex. At least seven people have been killed in several states as a result of the...

Asia stocks scale four-month peak

Asia stocks scale four-month peak

-- 2019-01-31 10:03:16

Asia stocks rose to a four-month high on Thursday after the Federal Reserve pledged to be patient with further interest rate hikes, signalling a potential end to its tightening cycle amid signs of slo...

Venezuela’s president Maduro rejects calls for snap election: RIA

Venezuela’s president Maduro rejects calls for snap election: RIA

-- 2019-01-30 14:20:24

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said calls to hold early presidential elections amounted to blackmail and that the countries calling for them must wait until 2025, Russia’s RIA news agency r...

Mongolia ousts parliamentary speaker amid graft scandal

Mongolia ousts parliamentary speaker amid graft scandal

-- 2019-01-30 13:50:27

Mongolia’s parliamentary speaker, Enkhbold Myegombo, has been ousted following weeks of public protests against him over accusations he was involved in the corrupt sale of government positions....

Japan retail sales climb 1.3pc in Dec

Japan retail sales climb 1.3pc in Dec

-- 2019-01-30 12:55:45

Japan’s retail sales rose more than expected in December as consumers increased spending on clothes and home appliances. The 1.3 per cent rise in retail sales in December from a year earlier wa...

SE Asian stocks dip as markets await Fed rate review

SE Asian stocks dip as markets await Fed rate review

-- 2019-01-30 12:33:30

Southeast Asian stocks were lower to little changed on Wednesday as investors awaited the US Federal Reserve's policy review and looked toward trade talks between Washington and Beijing. Philippine...

Asian stocks rise ahead of Fed meeting

Asian stocks rise ahead of Fed meeting

-- 2019-01-30 12:15:56

Asian stocks rose Wednesday as traders awaited a Federal Reserve policy meeting and US-China talks, though Japan's benchmark declined. Japan's Nikkei 225 index retreated 0.5 per cent to 20,555.13 whi...

UK MPs instruct May to renegotiate Brexit; EU says ‘No’

UK MPs instruct May to renegotiate Brexit; EU says ‘No’

-- 2019-01-30 11:52:50

British lawmakers have instructed Prime Minister Theresa May to reopen a Brexit treaty with the European Union to replace a controversial Irish border arrangement - and promptly received a flat reject...

Azov Sea standoff: Danish FM calls for EU sanctions on Russia

Azov Sea standoff: Danish FM calls for EU sanctions on Russia

-- 2019-01-29 13:38:20

Denmark’s foreign minister called on Tuesday for European Union-wide sanctions on Russia over a standoff with Ukraine in the Azov Sea. Anders Samuelsen will meet Ukraine’s foreign ministe...

Cameroon arrests main opposition leader for protest

Cameroon arrests main opposition leader for protest

-- 2019-01-29 13:15:05

Cameroonian authorities arrested opposition leader Maurice Kamto on Monday, his lawyer said, after weekend protests that security forces dispersed with live bullets, wounding six people. Kamto has be...

Asian stocks fall after US files Huawei charges

Asian stocks fall after US files Huawei charges

-- 2019-01-29 12:10:06

Asian shares fell on Tuesday after the US Justice Department unsealed criminal charges against China’s Huawei, its subsidiaries and a top executive ahead of trade talks. Japan’s Nikkei 22...

SE Asian stocks slip as trade worries loom

SE Asian stocks slip as trade worries loom

-- 2019-01-29 12:08:38

Southeast Asian stocks fell on Tuesday after the United States charged China's Huawei with bank fraud and for conspiring to steal trade secrets, denting hopes of a trade deal days before the trade tal...

After 1MDB, Malaysia unveils fresh anti-graft plan

After 1MDB, Malaysia unveils fresh anti-graft plan

-- 2019-01-29 11:24:01

Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The pla...

Brexit: Boris Johnson tells May to ditch Irish backstop

Brexit: Boris Johnson tells May to ditch Irish backstop

-- 2019-01-28 14:18:40

The most prominent Brexit campaigner in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative party said on Monday that she would get widespread support if she got the European Union to ditch the Irish back...

Taiwan's economy to slow in Q4: Reuters poll

Taiwan's economy to slow in Q4: Reuters poll

-- 2019-01-28 14:03:47

Taiwan’s economic growth probably slowed in the fourth quarter (Q4) as the island’s technology exports were hit by softening global demand and fallout from the US-China trade war. The med...

China's industrial profits shrink again in Dec

China's industrial profits shrink again in Dec

-- 2019-01-28 13:58:38

China's industrial profits shrank for a second straight month in December, putting pressure on policymakers to support industries hurt by slowing prices and weak factory activity amid a protracted US-...

Thailand welcomes record number of tourists in 2018

Thailand welcomes record number of tourists in 2018

-- 2019-01-28 13:35:36

Thailand saw a record 38.27 million tourists in 2018, up 7.5 per  cent from the previous year, the Tourism Ministry said on Monday. The ministry expects the number of tourists visiting the count...

Major central banks may face one of their biggest challenges yet

Major central banks may face one of their biggest challenges yet

Reuters 2019-01-28 12:25:39

Central banks may be about to face one of their biggest challenges yet: Global economic growth is slowing, but they have struggled to build up their policy arsenals since the last crisis to effectivel...

China jails leading human rights lawyer for subversion

China jails leading human rights lawyer for subversion

-- 2019-01-28 12:21:09

A Chinese court on Monday jailed prominent rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang for 4-1/2 years for subversion of state power. Human Rights Watch said the sentencing made a “mockery” of the Chines...

Brazil's Vale suspends dividends, bonuses after dam disaster

Brazil's Vale suspends dividends, bonuses after dam disaster

-- 2019-01-28 11:18:02

Vale SA, the world’s largest iron ore miner, suspended its planned shareholder dividends, share buybacks, and executive bonuses in light of a deadly tailings dam disaster in Brazil, according to...

Hotel wall collapses in Peru, killing 15

Hotel wall collapses in Peru, killing 15

FE Report 2019-01-28 11:03:26

Fifteen people were killed at a wedding in Peru on Sunday after a wall at the hotel where the celebration was held collapsed under heavy rains, the head of Peru’s civil defence institute said....

Asian stocks advance after US govt reopens for now

Asian stocks advance after US govt reopens for now

-- 2019-01-28 10:24:04

Asian stocks advanced on Monday as Wall Street rallied after a deal was announced to reopen the US government following a prolonged shutdown that had taken a toll on investor sentiment. MSCI’s...

Bomb attacks leave four policemen dead in Iraq

Bomb attacks leave four policemen dead in Iraq

-- 2019-01-27 15:24:19

At least four policemen were killed and 11 wounded by two roadside bombs that targeted police convoys in separate attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, the service and medical sources said. Two died an...

Prince Philip apologises to woman injured in car crash

Prince Philip apologises to woman injured in car crash

-- 2019-01-27 14:04:50

The Duke of Edinburgh has written to a woman injured in a car crash he was involved in near Sandringham at Norfolk in England to say that he is "deeply sorry". Prince Philip wished Emma Fairweather a...

Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near Fiji

Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near Fiji

-- 2019-01-27 13:08:43

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which re...

Egypt opens new int’l airport in Giza for trial flights

Egypt opens new int’l airport in Giza for trial flights

-- 2019-01-27 11:40:02

Egypt opened a new international airport on the outskirts of the capital on Saturday for an initial trial period, in a bid to ease pressure from Cairo’s main airport and help boost tourism. The...