May2017

News Hour: Denmark’s most famous landmark, “The Little Mermaid”, has been doused in red paint by anti-whaling activists. “Denmark defends the whales of the Faroe Islands” was written in English on the ground in front of...

News Hour: Oil prices fell on Tuesday on concerns that output cuts by the world’s big exporters may not be enough to drain a global glut that has depressed the market for almost three years. Benchmark...

News Hour: London Stock Exchange (LSE) is to buy Citigroup’s Yield Book fixed-income analytics service and its related indexing business for $685 million in cash, the LSE’s first big deal since its merger with Deutsche Boerse...

News Hour: Seven people have died and 48,000 others displaced after a heavy flood-hit northern Brazil, authorities announced on Monday. In the state of Pernambuco which was most affected, two people died, were declared over 44,000...

News Hour: Hurricane killed 14 people in Moscow and the Moscow Region on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, told reporters. “Eleven people were killed in Moscow and three others in the...

News Hour: A total of 170 people sought medical assistance following Monday’s hurricane in Moscow, almost 150 of them were hospitalized, the head of the Moscow government’s healthcare department, Alexei Khripun, said on Tuesday. “In total,...

News Hour: China will implement a controversial cybersecurity law on Thursday despite concerns from foreign firms worried about its impact on their ability to do business in the world’s second-largest economy. Passed last November, the law...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $2.75 million loan and a $2.25 million grant to help Tonga strengthen its long-term economic growth prospects as well as support and develop the country’s capacity...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Mongolia today kicked off a $500,000 capacity development technical assistance project to increase the resilience of Mongolian forest ecosystems to climate change with an inception...

News Hour: The commercial operation of Bangabandhu satellite will start in June next year after the launch in December this year, State Minister for Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim has said. She spoke at a press...