January2017

News Hour: President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Takehiko Nakao met with PRC Finance Minister Xiao Jie on 4 January in Beijing and discussed their close cooperation in 2017. This was Minister Xiao Jie’s first...

News Hour: Tottenham Hotspur denied Chelsea a record 14th consecutive Premier League win and loosened their grip on the title race as two Dele Alli headers secured a 2-0 victory at a rocking White Hart Lane...

News Hour: Wall Street stocks won solid gains on Wednesday while European markets were little changed as Federal Reserve policymakers signaled they could hasten US interest rate increases. US stocks, which had sagged during the late-December...

News Hour: Formula One fans in Singapore are keen for the race to remain there, despite negotiations between organizers and F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone seemingly stalled, according to a survey conducted by British research firm YouGov....

News Hour: Tom Holland, the latest actor to don the “Spider-Man” suit, and “Loving” actress Ruth Negga are among the nominees for this year’s EE Rising Star Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts...

News Hour: The South Korean court that will rule on the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye has only one precedent and little in the law books to go by, and several legal experts said it will...

News Hour: The gunman who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day is probably Uighur and Turkey has established his possible locations and links, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak...

News Hour: A car bomb in eastern Baghdad claimed by Islamic State killed six civilians and wounded 15 on Thursday, police and medics said. The Amaq news agency, which supports Islamic State, said a parked car...

News Hour: Apple Inc has removed the New York Times Co’s news apps from its app store in China following a request from the Chinese authorities, the companies said separately on Thursday. Apple removed both the English-language...

News Hour: Indonesia and Australia sought to calm tensions on Thursday after Indonesia’s military suspended ties because of “insulting” teaching material found at an Australian base that questioned Jakarta’s sovereignty in Papua province. Papua, where a...