June2017

News Hour: Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) Inc., reported its U.S. May 2017 sales of 218,248 units, a decrease of 0.5 percent from May 2016 on a volume basis. With one more selling day in May...

News Hour: More than 9,000 children who have arrived at two temporary reception centers in Dundo, northern Angola, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) need urgent support, UNICEF said today. To date, more than 25,000...

News Hour: The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has risen by 10,000 to a total of 65,300. Over 1,000 children suffering from acute watery diarrhoea have been reporting to health facilities every day. In...

News Hour: The UN Migration Agency (IOM) today (30/05) deployed three rapid assessment teams to Ratnapura, Galle, Matara and Kalutara – four of the districts worst hit by devastating floods and mudslides in southern and central...

News Hour: At least 1.3 million children are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance across the Bay of Bengal region following severe weather over the past six days, UNICEF has warned. The devastation wrought by Cyclone...

Gender inequality is slowing the transition toward more inclusive growth in Asia and the Pacific, says a new report by the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Independent Evaluation Department, which reveals a striking picture of the state...

News Hour: Streaming music service Spotify could be floated within a year, a source familiar with the matter told reporters on Friday, after co-founder Martin Lorentzon told Swedish radio a listing was not in the pipeline....

News Hour: Clearly Nikoloz Basilashvili had come to face Rafa Nadal with a plan but, like Mike Tyson said, everybody has a plan until they’re punched in the face. And that’s what happened in tennis terms...

News Hour: The Democratic Republic of Congo has not recorded a new case of Ebola in the past 21 days – the maximum incubation period for the disease – and has now begun a period of...

News Hour: India have far more at stake in Sunday’s Champions Trophy match against arch-rivals Pakistan than launching their title defence even if skipper Virat Kohli insists it is “just another game”. The cricket-mad neighbouring countries...