March2017

News Hour: China’s economy, the world’s second-largest, will likely expand 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2017, the official Xinhua agency quoted a government think tank as saying on Wednesday. The expected pace is on...

News Hour: Ford Motor Co, the second-largest U.S. automaker, on Wednesday announced two new recalls affecting 440,000 vehicles and expects to spend about $295 million to fix the issues. The recalls include 211,000 vehicles in North...

News Hour: Labor leaders at Volkswagen’s luxury Audi brand have asked top management to assign production of an all-electric model to the carmaker’s main plant in Germany, concerned they might lose out as electric cars gain...

News Hour: The U.S. Department of Commerce will remove Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE Corp from a trade blacklist on Wednesday after the company pleaded guilty to violating sanctions on Iran and agreed to pay nearly...

News Hour: An outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria has killed 269 people in recent weeks, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said, as Africa’s most populous country and aid organizations attempt to tackle the surge in...

News Hour: Singapore has confirmed two cases of locally transmitted infections of the Zika virus in a northeastern part of the city-state, the National Environment Agency said on Wednesday, describing it as the first Zika cluster...

News Hour: The world’s biggest smartphone maker Samsung will unveil its latest flagship, the Galaxy S8, on Wednesday in New York as it seeks to move on from last year’s humiliating recall crisis. Samsung Electronics was...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a new medium-term country partnership strategy (CPS) for Myanmar to support the government’s aim to improve economic growth and job creation. The 2017-2021 strategy is designed to...

News Hour: Barcelona have condemned FIFA’s decision to impose a four-match international ban on striker Lionel Messi for verbally abusing a match official in Argentina’s World Cup qualifier against Chile last week. Messi was dealt the...

News Hour: Tennis star Maria Sharapova said on Tuesday she is excited about her return to competition next month, feeling vindicated by the reduction of her doping suspension and empowered by her time away. Russia’s former...