South Korea urged banks on Monday to sell foreign assets to raise dollars and promised to use its currency reserves to shield lenders from the financial crisis engulfing the United States and Europe

South Korea said on Monday its banks were having trouble raising foreign currency funds and tried to reassure markets spooked by the financial crisis sweeping the United States and Europe

The British government yesterday risked fuelling a rift with the US and some members of the Afghan government by supporting a military commander's statement suggesting...

Rising from the lush green paddy fields 40 kilometres from India's decrepit former colonial capital Calcutta, Tata Motors' flagship Nano car factory was expected to...

Rival Indian states were queuing up at the weekend to host Tata Motors' low-cost Nano car project after the company announced it would pull out of West Bengal,...