-- 2019-08-31 11:06:30
Air Canada has been ordered to pay a French-speaking couple 21,000 Canadian dollars ($15,700; £12,900) and write them a letter of apology for violating their linguistic rights. The couple compl...
Reuters 2019-08-31 10:10:01
India’s economy grew at its weakest pace since 2013 between April and June as consumer demand and government spending slowed amid global trade frictions, raising chances of the central bank cutt...
Reuters 2019-08-30 19:24:47
India announced a series of mergers involving 10 state-owned banks on Friday, as it moves to strengthen a sector struggling under a mountain of debt and ensure stronger balance sheets to boost lending...
Reuters 2019-08-30 13:25:01
India’s economy likely expanded at its weakest pace in more than five years in April-June, a Reuters poll showed, as consumer demand and private investment weakened at a time global trade fricti...
-- 2019-08-29 15:04:32
A Myanmar court on Thursday sentenced a prominent filmmaker to one year in prison with hard labour for Facebook posts that criticised the military. Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was arrested in April and accuse...
-- 2019-08-29 14:58:04
Malaysia's producer price index (PPI) for local production dropped 2.2 per cent year-on-year in July as most sectors posted negative growths, official data showed Thursday. Malaysian Statistics Depar...
-- 2019-08-29 12:30:57
The Indonesian government is not abandoning Jakarta after announcing plans to move the country’s capital, its planning minister said, pledging to spend $40 billion to save the slowly sinking cit...
-- 2019-08-29 11:06:25
The British prime minister's decision to suspend parliament has prompted an angry backlash from MPs and opponents of a no-deal Brexit. It sparked protests across the country, a legal challenge and a...
-- 2019-08-29 10:47:53
Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday the United States will have to observe the 2015 nuclear deal if it wants to meet for talks and that Washington was engaging in &ldqu...
-- 2019-08-29 10:35:45
Facebook Inc acknowledged a flaw in its Messenger Kids app, weeks after two US senators raised privacy concerns about the application, and said that it spoke to the US Federal Trade Commission about t...
-- 2019-08-28 14:55:20
The Chinese government's leverage ratio edged up in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019 amid efforts to support economic growth and improve weak links. According to NIFD report, the end-June debt ratio f...
-- 2019-08-28 14:33:34
Australia is to formally investigate foreign interference in its universities amid rising concerns about Chinese influence on campuses. The push follows reports of students and staff "self-censoring"...
-- 2019-08-28 13:22:35
The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to examine the legal challenge against the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, and referred t...
-- 2019-08-28 12:13:03
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Jerusalem to inaugurate a ‘diplomatic office’ in the city on Sept 1, the Honduran government said in a statement on Tuesday. The o...
Xinhua 2019-08-28 11:24:19
US based retail giant Costco Wholesale opened its first brick-and-mortar store on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday. The 14,000-square-metre store is located in southwest Shanghai, with 3,400 stock-kee...
-- 2019-08-28 11:04:10
China has denied a request for a US Navy warship to visit the Chinese port city of Qingdao in recent days, a US defence official told Reuters on Tuesday, at a time of tense ties between the world&rsqu...
-- 2019-08-28 10:50:25
Explosions hit two police checkpoints in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing three officers and wounding several other Palestinians, the Hamas-run interior ministry said, declaring a state of emergency...
-- 2019-08-27 14:57:53
Iran will not talk to the United States until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump said he would meet his Iranian co...
Reuters 2019-08-27 14:52:50
The Indian government will receive a windfall from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the current financial year thanks to a much higher-than-expected dividend, allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi&r...
-- 2019-08-27 12:33:32
The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron - who hosted a G7 summit that ended...
-- 2019-08-27 11:46:28
Asian shares were mostly higher on Tuesday as investors found reason to be cautiously optimistic again about the potential for progress in the costly trade war between the US and China. Japan’s...
-- 2019-08-27 10:45:35
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson must pay $572m (£469m) for its part in fuelling Oklahoma's opioid addiction crisis, a judge in the US state has ruled. The company said immediately after the jud...
-- 2019-08-27 10:45:33
India's central goverment has offered the country's federal government a payout of 24.5 billion US dollars that include $17.1 billion of surplus and $7.4 billion of excess contingency provision lying...
-- 2019-08-26 13:39:23
Nearly 100 companies have relocated from Britain to the Netherlands or set up offices there to be within the European Union due to the United Kingdom’s planned departure from the bloc, a Dutch g...
Xinhua 2019-08-26 13:18:08
China's official data showed that most production goods monitored by the government posted higher prices in mid August compared with the previous 10 days. Of the 50 major goods monitored by the gover...
-- 2019-08-26 12:03:36
Torrential rain and floods have killed 62 people in Sudan, according to the official state news agency. The country has been battered by heavy rains since early July, affecting almost 200,000 people...
-- 2019-08-26 11:15:53
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said a joint committee was formed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to stabilise a ceasefire in the Yemeni provinces of Shabwah and Aby...
-- 2019-08-26 11:00:44
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) on Monday pumped 150 billion yuan ($21.25 billion) of funds into the market via the medium-term lending facility (MLF) to maintain liquidity. The funds will mature i...
-- 2019-08-26 10:57:14
Asian shares tumbled Monday after the latest escalation in the US-China trade war renewed uncertainties about global economies. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 started plummeting as soon as trading bega...
-- 2019-08-25 13:34:06
Egypt's exports to the Group of Seven (G7) countries increased to 3.8 billion US dollars in the first half of 2019 from 3.5 billion dollars in the same period last year, official statistics agency sai...
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