BBC News
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Pakistan Taliban: Peshawar school attack leaves 141 dead
Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children. The attack - the Taliban's deadliest in Pakistan ...
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Bloomberg
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Oil Slump Accelerates as Stocks in U.S., Europe Retreat
The group, which last month refused to reduce production in the face of the ... Among other U.S. stocks moving today, PetSmart Inc. rose 4.3 percent after a ... year and as foreign funds pull money out of the Southeast Asian country.
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BBC News
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Japan election: Voters back Shinzo Abe as PM wins new term
The question now is how will he use that power? He says he is determined to push ahead with difficult and potentially unpopular economic reform.
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BBC News
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Dalai Lama concedes he may be the last
Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize-winner as a "splittist", though he now advocates a "middle way" with China, seeking autonomy but not ...
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RT
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Ruble jumps on Russia rate hike, oil pressured
Related News ... The dour mood kept equities down in Asia, with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan . ... The dollar was last up 13.2 percent against the rouble to trade at 65.9 rubles per dollar. ... Investors are now awaiting the U.S. Federal Reserve's final meeting of 2014 on ...
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The Guardian
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Rouble hits record low as markets slide, and Belgium strikes – business live
Yes, yes, too many ruble charts on here today. ... The latestopinion poll has shown Samaras's New Democracy party lagging behind the left-wing ...
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AsiaOne
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FACT SHEET: The President's Immigration Accountability Executive Actions & Their Impact on ...
There are now over 17.3 million Asian Americans living in the United States—almost triple the number in 1990—and this rapid growth is largely driven ...
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New York Times
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US Said to Find North Korea Ordered Cyberattack on Sony
... over the past two months, or JPMorgan Chase's systems lastsummer. ... attacks emanated from Iran, using tools that are nowon the black market.
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MarketWatch
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Fed Won't Stop Gold's Recovery in '15, ANZ Says as Asia Buys
Fed officials will conclude a two-day meeting today on U.S. monetary policy, discussing whether to retain or drop a pledge to keep borrowing costs low ...
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CNN
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Five people flee from Sydney cafe amid hostage drama
Three people who were seen running out of the cafe "are now out of the building and they are now with police," said New South Wales Police Deputy ...
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Moneycontrol.com
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Asian markets fall on oil rout, poor Japan data, Sydney siege
It comes after U.S. stocks finished sharply lower at the end of lastweek, with ... "Today was going to be a rough day for trading inAsia," Richard Iley, chief ... Newcrest Mining shed 0.5 percent onnews that the gold miner was planning ...
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CNN
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Pope: Today we are all happy for the new relations between the US and Cuba
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - "We are all happy today, because we have seen how the two peoples, who distanced themselves from one another for so ...
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TechRadar
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Plex for PS3 and PS4 launching today in Australia, Europe and most of Asia
Plex has announced that its incredibly popular media centre app has finally launched on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 across Australia, Europe and ...
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Wall Street Journal
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Oil Prices Resume Slide
The slide deepened within the last hour of trading, repeating a volatile ... still in a downtrend and we're really not getting any encouraging news from ...
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New York Times
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Last Hong Kong Protest Camp to Be Cleared Monday, Police Say
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong police said on Saturday that they were preparing to dismantle the last of the three pro-democracy protest camps that ...
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New York Times
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Latest News: US-Cuba, Putin on Russia, Stephen Colbert
More funerals are taking place today in Peshawar, Pakistan, for the students ... An anti-death penalty group reports today that executions and new death ... European shares ended with gains of more than 2 percent, and Asia closed ...
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Gulf Times
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Bank of America, CLSA Top Asia Brokers in 2014, Survey Shows
... percent of Asian equity trading adjusted by commissions, while CLSA had 9.6 percent, according to the report e-mailed to newsorganizations today.
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Russia Contagion to Asia Seen Limited by Policy Shifts: Economy
Even so, policy makers in Asia are confronting Russia's debacle from a ... With shrinking current-account deficits, cheaper oil and higher reserves in their ... percent of gross domestic product last year compared with about 34 percent ...
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NBCNews.com
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Turning Today's Immigrants into Tomorrow's Leaders
She'd visited America before, and now studying English at the University of ... She graduated, took a job with The Asia Society, and set out to fix the ...
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USA TODAY
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Fed pledge to be 'patient' lifts Asia stocks
Asia stocks are rising after the US central bank pledged to be "patient" on ... Russian president Vladimir Putin holds his end-of-year news conference ... the government managed to achieve its objective, Lord Myners tells Today. ... Jon Taplin who produced Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and The Last ...
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Asia Pop 40 launched in Philippines
Each week Asia Pop 40 counts down the most popular downloads on iTunes ... The show is three hours in length and apart from showcasing the latest ...
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Wall Street Journal
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Indonesia's Rupiah Erases Decline After Central Bank Intervenes
The lack of domestic demand for dollars today caused the rupiah to recover ... Bank Indonesia is intervening today to stabilize the rupiah and is also ... buy emerging-market stocks and bonds lastweek, the biggest outflow since ... “This has spilled over into Asiancurrencies, which has seen the rupiah ...
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UN News Centre
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Asia-Pacific report: World's most disaster prone region experiences three-fold rise in deaths
18 December 2014 – Asia and the Pacific is the world's most natural ... Nations Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014, released today.
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Business Today
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Wildcraft to expand into Middle East, South East Asia markets
BENGALURU: Outdoor gear brand Wildcraft today said it will be venturing ... fund Sequoia Capital had invested in Wildcraft in September last year.
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Moneycontrol.com
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ForexLive Asia FX news wrap: BOJ hold policy steady today
The yen weakened somewhat throughout the session in Asia today, most notably in the minutes following the release of the BOJ announcement.
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Aljazeera.com
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Pakistan's Imran Khan leads Lahore protests
... on Monday, with 15,000 police personnel deployed to ensure the maintenance of order, Haider Ashraf, a police official, told AFPnews agency.
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AsiaNews.it
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Hong Kong, no more occupied site. Catholics will keep the fight for democracy
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) - The Occupy Movement's last occupied site of Causeway Bay, a business and shopping district, was cleared by police today ...
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FRANCE 24
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French ex-airline boss claims cover-up on MH370
The latest theory into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014 has all the ingredients of a spy thriller and has grabbed ...
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Aljazeera.com
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Indonesia landslide death toll rises
"Today the search for survivors will be carried out using heavy excavation equipment. The landslide has blocked road access since yesterday," ...
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TechCrunch
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SoftBank Leads $90M Round For India's Housing.com To Continue Its Asian Spending Spree
SoftBank's investment spree in Asia is continuing today after the company ... PropTiger raised $30 million from U.S. media giantNews Corp just last ...
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Aljazeera.com
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Multiple attacks kill many in Afghanistan
News of the attacks in Kabul and Helmand came just hours after Afghan authorities said a senior official of the country's Supreme Court had been shot ...
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Citywire Global
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Asian Stocks Fall After U.S. Shares Slide Amid Growth Concern
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index (MXAP) dropped 1 percent to 135.70 as of 4:10 ... The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 3.8 percentlast week, its biggest ... The nation's currency strengthened 0.3 percent to 118.39 per dollar today.
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Bloomberg
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U.S. Stocks Are Little Changed After Two-Day Rally Following Fed
U.S. equities trading may be subject to unexpected swings todaybecause of a quarterly event known as quadruple witching, when futures and options ...
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Channel News Asia
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Yang Yin's parents, wife and former bailor to be added as parties to lawsuit
TODAY reports: Yang's wife Weng Yandan, his parents and former bailor Ong Gek Lie are alleged to have knowingly received funds misappropriated ...
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Channel News Asia
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Court, Dahdi and Not Working Today winners at Silver Screen Awards
A snap shot from Kirsten Tan's short film Dahdi, which was named Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the Silver Screen Awards held at Marina Bay ...
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ABC News
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Meet This 11-Year-Old CEO and Entrepreneur from Detroit
... <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/international">Latest worldnews</a> .... Reporter: So now the company gives Asia free space and internet support ...
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ForexLive Asia FX news wrap: Yen and oil big movers in Asia today
Oil followed a similar sort of pattern to USD/JPY, trading lower from its open but bouncing back too. There was some news over the weekend on oil, ...
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“death care” IPO
Nirvana Asia is a latest wake association to go open on Hong Kong's batch exchange, in a open charity this week that lifted an estimated HK$1.9 ...
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Thailand Rice Sellers Lower Some of Their Quotes Today; Other Asia Rice Quotes Unchanged
Other Asia rice sellers kept their quotes mostly unchanged. ... Thailand 25% rice waslast quoted at around $350 - $360 per ton, on par with Vietnam ... Oryza.com welcomes all rice-related news and information including company ...
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The Top Stocks to Watch in Asia Today
Welcome to the stock exchange. We are taking a look ahead to the open in japan and south korea. Our intrepid reporters are here to tell us what spots ...
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Hot Toys is Now the Sole Distributor of Sideshow's Star Wars Collectibles in Asia
Jedi News: Gathering Star Wars News From Across the Galaxy ... Today we are pleased to announce that Hot Toys is the sole distributor for Sideshow ...
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Social selling takes off in Asia
Social selling takes off in Asia. 18 Dec 2014. Last updated during 20:04. By Rajeshni Naidu-Ghelani Business Reporter, BBC News, Singapore.
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Pawns no more: Central Asia in search of other partners
Central Asia, stuck between Russia, the dominant power of yesterday, whose cultural influence in the region remains strong even as its economy ...
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Social shopping takes off in Asia
The latest trend driving Asian spending sprees. ... ADB lowers growth forecasts for developing Asia Developing Asia now expected to expand by 6.1% ...
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How the fashion industry can empower women in South Asia
How the fashion industry can empower women in South Asia ... Wall Street Journal World News (Today) - The economic boost from falling oil prices is ...
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