After climbing to records this year, equities in Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia are now looking less like the bets that made them global winners. The MSCI Asean Index has dropped 0.5 percent this month and is poised for the …
Grab to buy ride-sharing, food delivery businesses in region Uber gets 27.5% stake in rival, CEO to join Grab’s board Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell its Southeast Asian operations to Grab, withdrawing from yet another fast-growing region to …
China’s massive build program to recreate trade routes stretching from Asia to Africa and Europe is gaining momentum. Since President Xi Jinping’s flagship Belt and Road project was announced about five years ago, it gave impetus to billions of dollars …
A colourful microfibre of plastic found in bottled water. Photograph: Abigail Barrows According to the new study, the most common type of plastic fragment found was polypropylene the same type of plastic used to make bottle caps. The bottles analysed …
The growing importance of Asia’s major economies will continue in 2018 and beyond, according to a league table that sees the region dominating in terms of size in just over a decade. The report by the Centre for Economics and …
President Trump’s Asia trip: What to know President Donald Trump visits Asia for a 12-day trip to five nations. The top issue to dominate his agenda: North Korea’s nuclear program, amid Pyongyang’s increased missile launches. Here’s what you need to …
Woman reportedly made such a ruckus after discovery that plane had no other choice but to make unscheduled landing A Qatar Airways plane has been forced to land midflight after a woman who used her sleeping husbands thumb to unlock …
A magnified image of clothing microfibres from washing machine effluent. 1 study found that a jacket can shed as many as 250,000 fibres each wash. Photograph: Courtesy of Rozalia Project A different small study in the Republic of Ireland published …
(CNN)As search teams continued Tuesday to look for 10 American sailors missing after a Navy warship collided with a commercial tanker east of Singapore — the latest in a series of similar incidents in the Pacific — the US defense …
A masked shooter stormed a hotel-casino complex in the Philippine capital early Friday, soaring a TELEVISION screen, torching betting tables and packing a knapsack with gambling establishment chips prior to being discovered dead of an obvious suicide, authorities stated. Metropolitan …