Japan has suffered from sluggish consumer demand even before its economy began sliding into recession as it was hit by the global financial meltdown. But amid the...

A federal appeals court has granted the Bush administration's emergency request for a stay of a federal judge's order that the members of the Uighur ethnic group be released into the United States at the end of this week

Activists win a rare victory in the confrontation over land between villagers and officials in the Chinese hamlet of Bainitang, one of the many disputes that cause riots and social instability

Lone Star, the US buy-out firm, is pushing ahead with another bid to sell its controlling stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), just weeks after HSBC withdrew a $6.3bn...

Commonwealth Bank of Australia said it had held talks with Suncorp-Metway, the Australian group that has put the country's sixth-largest bank on the auction block,...