Honda Motor Co. is keen for its share of rapidly-growing markets like India and China to increase, its chairman said on Sunday, but Japan's second biggest auto maker is not in a hurry to enter the new battleground for very cheap small cars in India.
U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leaders quashed White House hopes on Friday for quick renewal of fast track trade negotiating authority and said they cannot support trade pacts negotiated with South Korea and Colombia.
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has clarified how to monitor the shutdown of North Korea's nuclear facility and it is now up to Pyongyang and its five negotiating partners to decide on a date, an official said on Saturday.
The earnings prospects of Chinese commercial banks are clouded by their excessive reliance on interest income and sub-standard internal controls, top domestic and overseas bankers said on Saturday.
Central bank holdings of U.S. dollars continue to mount, despite talk of diversification into other currencies, but questions remain about the sustainability of the rise in dollar reserves.
Japanese officials gathered on Friday to commemorate the latest step in the nation’s agriculture export push, as Japan resumed rice shipments to China this week following a four year ban.
Marriott International Inc., the top U.S. hotel operator, said on Friday it would more than triple its hotel portfolio in India by the end of 2010 as it cashes in on rising business and leisure travel.
Best Buy Co. Inc. said on Wednesday that it would open more North American stores than previously planned, buy back $5.5 billion in stock and raise its dividend 30 percent.
The commodity market bubble could burst at some stage and prices will tumble if the dollar stabilizes and China's banking system hits trouble, a fund manager told a conference on Wednesday.
Risk aversion triggered by troubles with U.S. mortgage securities rippled across financial markets on Wednesday, depressing European and Asian stocks and boosting safe haven government bonds.
China's parliament began reviewing the proposed issuance of 1.55 trillion yuan in bonds to buy about $200 billion in foreign exchange that would fund the start-up of the country's new sovereign wealth management fund, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.
Travelers in East Asia may soon find it much easier to use public transportation across all three countries.
U.S. private equity firm Texas Pacific Group is expected to bid for Singapore's microchip-testing firm United Test and Assembly Center as part of a consortium, banking sources said on Tuesday.
A New Jersey importer has asked the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for help in recalling about 450,000 light-truck tires made in China after a fatal car accident, lawyers said.
Zoellick will take over after a controversial two-year term by Paul Wolfowitz.
North Korea said on Monday it would start implementing a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February and awaits a visit by U.N. inspectors now that a dispute over its funds frozen at a Macau bank had been resolved.
Fears of rising borrowing costs hit global stocks on Monday with investors nervous about higher government interest rates and a blow-out in credit spreads.
In its heyday, Hong Kong's famous Bird Garden market bustled with shoppers bargaining in Cantonese for exotic birds for sale as pets or for Buddhist rituals.
Global real estate investment is still buoyant but a few cracks are starting to show as higher borrowing costs begin to bite, making 2007 a pivotal year after an extended bull run in property prices.
The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its nuclear arms development program within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.
Drought affecting large swathes of China has left more than 8 million people short of water, and many livestock have died of hunger, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Arise, ye who refuse to be slaves! go the stirring words that open China's national anthem.
