March2017

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is stepping up its anticorruption and integrity efforts, and has approved an update to its Anticorruption Policy. This is on top of other reforms and policies to be implemented...

News Hour: South Korea’s Hyundai Motor on Monday said it had suspended production at one of its Chinese factories for a week, fuelling concern that a diplomatic standoff may be hurting sales in the automaker’s top...

News Hour: Citigroup Inc plans to double its wealth management assets in South Korea to around $6 billion by 2020, setting up new offices and investing in digital technology to attract new customers. Asia has emerged...

News Hour: Eli Lilly and Co said on Friday it would invest $850 million in its U.S. operations this year, and the drugmaker signaled it would be willing to spend more if the Trump administration were...

News Hour: AstraZeneca said on Monday it had won approval for its lung cancer pill Tagrisso in China, a key market for the potential blockbuster medicine. Tagrisso is designed to help cancer patients with certain genetic...

News Hour: Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned imports of live birds, hatching eggs and chicks from Tennessee after a form of bird flu that is highly lethal for poultry was found in the U.S. state, the...

News Hour: An “unprecedented” 21 different types of dinosaur tracks have been found on a stretch of Australia’s remote coastline, scientists said on Monday, dubbing it the nation’s Jurassic Park. Palaeontologists from the University of Queensland...

News Hour: Six high school students were feared dead on Monday after they were engulfed by an avalanche while on a mountain-climbing outing, officials and reports said. Local authorities and police confirmed that an avalanche had...

News Hour: The Bangladesh Police’s report based on the study, presented at a police chiefs’ conference in Dhaka, revealed that 56 per cent of the militants come from the general education background (Bangla and English medium)...

News Hour: Top seed Angelique Kerber advanced to the fourth round at the Miami Open on Sunday, but eighth seed Madison Keys was sent packing. On a day when Svetlana Kuznetsova and Venus Williams also won...