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Hanoi: A crackdown on corruption in Vietnam unnerved some foreign investors when it intensified last year, but they are now getting much more sanguine about...

London: Britain will look retrospectively at visas issued to wealthy foreign investors and consider whether action needs to be taken, interior minister...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been forced to delay introducing a bill to cut corporate tax due to a lack of Senate support, denying...

Yangon: Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar asked a court on Wednesday to throw out the case, saying there was insufficient evidence to...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Wednesday introduced a controversial proposal in parliament to redraw electoral boundaries that...

Muscat: India’s Central Board of Secondary Education has announced that it will be conducting a re-exam for two of its tests, according to Indian media...

Taoyuan (Taiwan): The wife of Taiwanese activist Li Ming-che, who is serving a five-year prison sentence in China for subversion, said on Wednesday after...

Beijing: Beijing's air quality index (AQI) soared to hazardous levels on Wednesday as a sandstorm blew in from Inner Mongolia and smothered the Chinese...

Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's ruling coalition voted in Abiye Ahmed as new prime minister following the resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn last month, the...

Rome: Italian anti-terrorism police said on Wednesday they had arrested an Italian citizen of Moroccan origin on suspicion of supporting IS militant group...