In-form drag-flick expert Rupinder Pal Singh scored a brace as top-ranked India eked out a 2-1 win over Malaysia to secure the top spot in the round-robin stage of the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament yesterday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia’s second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.
The Palestinian government decided on Tuesday to delay municipal elections for up to four months after the high court ruled they should be held only in the West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip.
Glenn Maxwell is hoping his brilliant unbeaten 145 in the first Twenty20 against Sri Lanka on Tuesday will put him back on track to represent Australia in the longer formats of the game.
A surprise delay to Russia’s privatisation of mid-sized oil producer Bashneft does not bode well for plans to sell a stake in energy giant Rosneft this year.
Cuba on Tuesday published policy guidelines for the next five years that signal no new domestic initiatives although it upgraded foreign investment to “fundamental in certain sectors.”
Where divergent interests cannot be easily reconciled, the EU has mastered the techniques of obfuscation and ambiguity to keep the beast lumbering forward
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ’s move to consider quitting as one of 22 primary dealers is the latest sign of stress in a debt market that’s struggling to cope with the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) unprecedented monetary stimulus.
India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said yesterday that state bankers would propose a mechanism to reach “commercially prudent” loan settlements, as the government and lenders met to discuss how to tackle the country’s bad loan problem.
Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah yesterday dismissed an Israeli proposal for direct negotiations instead of a French multilateral peace initiative, calling it an attempt to “buy time”.
Five years after handing Greece the biggest sovereign-debt write-off in history, European policy makers have come full circle to the point they had all hoped to avoid: a real discussion on debt relie
Iraqi forces shelled Islamic State targets in Falluja on Tuesday, the second day of an assault to retake the militant stronghold just west of Baghdad, as international concern mounted for the security of civilians.
