-- 2020-02-12 12:27:01
Airlines and aircraft makers are taking a body blow from the virus outbreak in China, as Boeing reported zero orders for new jets in January and forecasting the cargo business will likely contract in...
-- 2020-02-12 11:33:53
China on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January, lending credence to a prediction from the country’s senior medical adviser that the outbreak could be o...
REUTERS 2020-02-11 12:26:25
President Donald Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget plan for the coming fiscal year drew a prompt rejection on Monday from congressional Democrats, who said it betrayed his promise to protect popular...
-- 2020-02-11 11:53:36
Early trends show Delhi's governing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) heading for a big win in the Indian capital. The party is leading in more than two-thirds of the state's 70 seats. Delhi voted on 8 February...
-- 2020-02-10 13:54:06
Taiwan expanded its restrictions on visitors from Hong Kong and Macau on Monday to freeze the entry of many residents from the two Chinese-run cities to help control the spread of the new coronavirus....
-- 2020-02-10 12:16:14
Japan's current account surplus increased 4.4 per cent in 2019 compared to a year earlier to reach 20.06 trillion yen (183 billion US dollars), up for the first time in two years, government statistic...
-- 2020-02-10 12:14:23
Japanese antitrust officials raided the offices of e-commerce company Rakuten Inc on Monday after complaints from online merchants about the company’s free shipping policies, prompting its share...
-- 2020-02-09 13:07:14
Organisers scrambled on Sunday to shore up the Singapore Airshow, which is going ahead under a cloud of health and economic concerns after dozens of exhibitors pulled out of Asia’s largest aeros...
-- 2020-02-09 11:48:01
A mother and her six children died when a fire destroyed their home early Saturday in central Mississippi in the US, authorities said. The father was the lone survivor of the 12:30 am blaze in Clinto...
-- 2020-02-09 10:23:03
The number of new coronavirus deaths on the Chinese mainland hit 811 by end of Feb 8, the National Health Commission said on Sunday morning, surpassing that of the SARS epidemic in 2002/2003. The new...
-- 2020-02-08 14:22:15
Voting began for a crucial state election in India’s capital on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party trying to regain power after a 22-year gap and major vi...
-- 2020-02-08 12:10:34
Singapore on Friday raised its coronavirus alert level and reported more cases not linked to previous infections or travel to China, a move that sparked panic-buying of essentials in some shops across...
-- 2020-02-07 16:04:53
Malaysia's central bank has said that its international reserves stood at 104.2 billion US dollars as of Jan. 31, 2020. Bank Negara, the central bank of the country, on Friday said in a statement tha...
-- 2020-02-07 00:21:05
The Apple Watch outsold the entire Swiss watch industry in 2019, according to a new report. Market research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that Apple shipped 30.7 million units worldwide of its sm...
-- 2020-02-06 15:27:15
India's central bank held rates steady on Thursday and retained an accommodative policy stance as it sought to support faltering growth and avoid stoking already high inflation levels. The Reserve Ba...
Reuters 2020-02-06 13:53:42
Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia reported on Thursday a surprise rise in October-December underlying profit, driven by cost cuts, and said most of its 2020 profit will be generated in the...
-- 2020-02-06 11:20:16
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he hopes a free trade deal with Australia will be one of the first agreements secured now that Britain has left the European Union. Britain formally left t...
-- 2020-02-05 15:39:00
South Korea's online shopping hit a new record high last year as demand soared for food delivery through smartphone applications, statistical office data showed Wednesday. Shopping in the cyberspace...
-- 2020-02-05 12:43:25
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest airport for international travelers, handled 86.4 million passengers in 2019, dropping 3.1 per cent from the previous year to post its first annu...
-- 2020-02-04 13:36:28
For companies bracing for losses from China's viral outbreak, the damage has so far been delayed, thanks to a stroke of timing: The outbreak hit just when Chinese factories and many businesses were cl...
-- 2020-02-04 13:14:29
A total of 26 people were killed in recent attacks in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, local police said Monday. Up to 190 houses were damaged or destroyed following the attacks by unknown gunm...
-- 2020-02-04 13:01:28
Australia suspended parliament on Tuesday to honor the victims of a national bushfire crisis that has killed 33 people, as more than 100 fires remained ablaze across the country’s east coast. P...
BBC 2020-02-04 11:25:45
China's top leadership has admitted "shortcomings and deficiencies" in the country's response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The rare admission came from the Politburo Standing Committee, which...
-- 2020-02-03 15:07:42
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday Turkey will continue to retaliate after Syrian government shelling killed four of its troops and wounded nine in Syria’s northwest Idlib region, where Tur...
REUTERS 2020-02-03 14:59:41
India’s new budget is unlikely to drag Asia’s third- biggest economy out of its worst slowdown in more than a decade as the government has proposed only moderate spending increases and sma...
Reuters 2020-02-03 13:09:34
Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp have agreed to set up a joint venture specialising in prismatic electric vehicle batteries. The new company will develop batteries that will be available to any a...
Reuters 2020-02-03 12:24:20
Shares of Malaysia’s AirAsia Group and unit AirAsia X fell on Monday, after allegations by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office that Airbus paid a bribe of $50 million to win plane orders from A...
-- 2020-02-03 12:06:35
Panic-stricken residents have emptied shelves in major supermarkets in Hong Kong, stockpiling meat, rice, cleaning products and soap as fears escalate over a coronavirus epidemic on the mainland. The...
Reuters 2020-02-03 11:41:18
An audio recording purporting to be from the Islamist militant group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility on Sunday for a fatal shooting in December at a US naval base in Pe...
-- 2020-02-02 15:13:03
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Kazakhstan on Sunday to join Washington in pressing Beijing over its treatment of Muslim minorities, a sensitive matter for the Central Asian nation which has c...
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