BEIJING: China's banking regulator and the central bank plan to adopt a more differentiated regulatory system for assessing commercial banks' capital adequacy and risk...
Eleven people were killed on Saturday, including two police officers, in a crash at an overcrowded stadium concert in Kinshasa headlined by Congolese singer...
SYDNEY: Australia on Tuesday reversed a decision of the previous government to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying the status of...
Kazakhstan's president on Saturday signed a law limiting presidential terms and reverting to the old name of the Central Asian country's capital, in the...
SYDNEY: Australia formally recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing decades of Middle East policy, but will not move its embassy there immediately, Prime...
KATHMANDU: India agreed on Saturday to construct a rail link to Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, and to open up inland waterways in the landlocked Himalayan...
MANILA: Ten people died when a small plane crashed into a house north of the Philippine capital on Saturday, aviation and police officials said.
The...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday said the government was actively working on improving ease of doing business in the country.
"A policy...
SANAA: Yemen's rebel-held capital was struck by overnight air raids that continued well into Sunday, targeting the defence ministry and a popular public square,...
RIYADH: The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's Softbank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised...
BEIJING: Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing, a bitter rival of US-based Uber, has raised $7.3 billion in one of the world's largest private equity financing rounds, the company said in a statement Thursday.
KARACHI: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) hosted a three-day conference on non-banking finance and capital markets in Karachi which was attended by financial sector experts, government officials and business representatives.
KABUL: A group of Afghan students gathered on the leafy campus of Kabul University this week to embark on an unlikely course - the country's first Master's degree in gender and women's studies.
DUBAI: A Saudi-led alliance launched more air strikes on Yemen's capital and more foreign troops were reported to be moving into the country as the campaign to rout Houthi forces intensified.
SANAA: Warplanes from the United Arab Emirates struck Houthi targets across Yemen, state news agency WAM said on Saturday, a day after at least 60 soldiers from a Saudi-led coalition, mostly Emiratis, were killed in an attack in central Yemen.