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Asian shares fall after Wall Street sell-off

Asian shares fall after Wall Street sell-off

-- 2018-12-05 10:58:24

Asian stocks sank Wednesday after Wall Street plunged amid confusion about what Washington and Beijing agreed to in a tariff cease-fire. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 1.6 per cent to 26,84...

French govt 'preparing to halt fuel tax rise'

French govt 'preparing to halt fuel tax rise'

-- 2018-12-04 14:57:38

The French government is preparing to suspend fuel tax increases, a government source said on Tuesday, following violent protests against the measures. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was due to anno...

Russia ‘partially unlocks’ Ukrainian Azov Sea ports

Russia ‘partially unlocks’ Ukrainian Azov Sea ports

-- 2018-12-04 13:40:36

Russia has partially unlocked Ukrainian sea ports on the Azov Sea, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister Volodymyr Omelyan said on Tuesday. “Yes, Berdyansk and Mariupol ports are partially un...

Italy must reduce debt: Euro zone FinMin

Italy must reduce debt: Euro zone FinMin

-- 2018-12-04 13:27:36

Euro zone finance ministers has said that Italy’s draft 2019 budget was breaking European Union rules and they agreed with the European Commission that Rome should amend it. Italy, which alre...

SE Asian stocks mixed; Philippines jumps

SE Asian stocks mixed; Philippines jumps

-- 2018-12-04 13:00:33

Southeast Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday. Philippine stocks rose 2.0 per cent ahead of November inflation data, while Singapore shares fell 1.0 per cent on disappointing manufacturing data. Finan...

Boat carrying 20 Rohingyas lands in Indonesia: Officials

Boat carrying 20 Rohingyas lands in Indonesia: Officials

-- 2018-12-04 12:55:06

Indonesian authorities said a boat carrying 20 men believed to be Rohingya Muslims landed on the northeastern shore of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday. It is the latest in a series of boa...

Asia shares fall as lift from US-China trade truce ends

Asia shares fall as lift from US-China trade truce ends

Reuters 2018-12-04 11:14:08

A man walks past an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, November 13, 2018. Reuters/Files Asian shares fell on Tuesday as a relief rally petered out amid rising doubt...

CIA chief ‘to brief Congress’ on Khashoggi murder

CIA chief ‘to brief Congress’ on Khashoggi murder

-- 2018-12-04 10:59:06

The head of the CIA will now brief Congress on Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, US media say. Gina Haspel is reportedly set talk to Senate leaders on Tuesday. She was absent from last week...

China factory activity grows slightly in Nov

China factory activity grows slightly in Nov

-- 2018-12-03 15:19:56

The factory activity of China grew slightly in November, a private survey showed, though new export orders extended their decline in a further blow to the sector already hurt by the Sino-US trade fr...

French PM holds talks with political parties after violent protests

French PM holds talks with political parties after violent protests

-- 2018-12-03 14:53:37

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is holding crisis talks with representatives of major political parties in the wake of violent anti-government protests that have rocked Paris. More than 100 pe...

Nigerian president Buhari denies death rumour

Nigerian president Buhari denies death rumour

-- 2018-12-03 12:22:41

Nigeria’s President Buhari has denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumour that has circulated on social media for months. Buhari,...

Nikkei hits seven-week high

Nikkei hits seven-week high

-- 2018-12-03 11:41:30

Japan’s Nikkei surged to a seven-week high on Monday after the United States and China on the weekend suspended new tariffs and agreed to try reaching a trade deal within 90 days, which lifted g...

Chinese cops detain two after pollution inspector’s death

Chinese cops detain two after pollution inspector’s death

-- 2018-12-03 11:29:34

Chinese police have detained two people in eastern China’s Zhejiang province following the death of an inspector looking into environmental violations, the China Daily reported on Monday, citing...

Asian shares rally on Sino-US trade truce, oil bounces

Asian shares rally on Sino-US trade truce, oil bounces

Reuters 2018-12-03 10:21:41

Asian shares rallied on Monday after US and Chinese leaders brokered a truce in their trade conflict, a relief for the global economic outlook and a tonic for emerging markets. Trade-exposed currenci...

IMF chief urges G20 members to 'fix trade'

IMF chief urges G20 members to 'fix trade'

Xinhua 2018-12-02 15:50:49

International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has said that there is "an urgent need" to de-escalate trade tensions, reverse recent tariff increases, and modernise the rules-based multilat...

France to consider state of emergency to prevent recurrence of riots

France to consider state of emergency to prevent recurrence of riots

-- 2018-12-02 14:34:43

France will consider imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of some of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade and urged peaceful protesters to come to the negotiating table, gover...

China residential building fire kills eight

China residential building fire kills eight

-- 2018-12-02 11:20:18

Eight people were killed and three more injured in a residential building fire early Sunday in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, local authorities said. The fire broke out at about 1:58 am in...

Trump likely to meet Kim in early 2019

Trump likely to meet Kim in early 2019

-- 2018-12-02 10:59:24

US President Donald Trump has said he is likely to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in January or February and that three sites for their second meeting are under consideration. “We’r...

Trump-Xi meeting puts stock market on edge

Trump-Xi meeting puts stock market on edge

Reuters 2018-12-02 10:50:44

Trade tensions that have clouded Wall Street’s outlook for more than eight months will come to a head this weekend at a global political summit, with investors bracing for a range of outcomes th...

North Korean soldier defects to South Korea

North Korean soldier defects to South Korea

-- 2018-12-01 12:47:43

A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Saturday, the South Korean military said, but there were no unusual movements by North Korea’s military in response. The North Korean soldier w...

Wall St climbs ahead of G-20 meeting

Wall St climbs ahead of G-20 meeting

-- 2018-12-01 12:12:41

US stocks climbed on Friday as President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping of China prepared to meet and discuss trade, a meeting investors hope will start to resolve the two nations’ trad...

CSRC approves two new IPOs

CSRC approves two new IPOs

-- 2018-12-01 12:11:52

China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the initial public offering (IPO) applications of two companies. Electronics manufacturer Jiangsu Lettall Electronic Co, Ltd. and Bank of...

Prices of most China's production goods decline

Prices of most China's production goods decline

-- 2018-12-01 11:29:24

China's official data showed most production goods monitored by the government posted lower prices in the middle 10 days of November compared with the previous 10 days. Of the 50 major goods monitore...

Former US president George H W Bush dies at 94

Former US president George H W Bush dies at 94

-- 2018-12-01 11:19:55

Former US president George H W Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army but lost a chance for a second term after breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, di...

Powerful quake, aftershocks rattle Alaska

Powerful quake, aftershocks rattle Alaska

-- 2018-12-01 10:24:55

A major 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska, causing people to run from buildings and briefly prompting a tsunami alert for coastal areas. The quake was centred about seven miles (11km) north...

Brexit deal good for global economy, Theresa May to tell G20

Brexit deal good for global economy, Theresa May to tell G20

-- 2018-11-30 13:57:03

British Prime Minister Theresa May will tell world leaders at Group-20 summit that the Brexit agreement she has reached with the European Union will have positive consequences for the global economy....

South Korea raises interest rate to 1.75pc

South Korea raises interest rate to 1.75pc

-- 2018-11-30 13:40:19

South Korea's central bank has raised the benchmark interest rate for the first time in 12 months as the bank was pressured to hike borrowing costs amid the massive household debts. Bank of Korea (BO...

Singapore's labour market improves in 2018

Singapore's labour market improves in 2018

-- 2018-11-30 13:32:32

Singapore's labour market improved from June 2017 to June 2018 as economic activities picked up, according to an annual report issued by the Ministry of Manpower on Thursday. The Labour Force in Sing...

Indian shares hit record high

Indian shares hit record high

-- 2018-11-30 13:18:57

Indian shares inched up on Friday, while the Indian rupee strengthened to a fresh three-month high ahead of key economic growth data later in the day. Broader Asian markets wavered as investors rem...

Asian shares mixed ahead of G-20 summit

Asian shares mixed ahead of G-20 summit

-- 2018-11-30 12:16:19

Asia shares were mixed on Friday ahead of the planned meeting by Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit this weekend. Japan's Nikkei 225 index climbed 0.4 per cent to 22,348...