World economy
EU faces `defining moment’ with refugee crisis: UNHCR
04 Sep 2015
More than 300,000 people have risked their lives this year trying to cross the Mediterranean, and more than 2,600 people have died doing so, says the UN commission
Tone down slanging match, Jeb Bush tells Trump
04 Sep 2015
Vietnam’s one-man army fights China’s economic invasion: report
31 Aug 2015
More than 75 per cent of Vietnam’s annual $60-billion trade is made up imports from China
Vietnam’s one-man army fights China’s economic invasion: report
31 Aug 2015
More than 75 per cent of Vietnam’s annual $60-billion trade is made up imports from China
Vietnam’s one-man army fights China’s economic invasion: report
31 Aug 2015
More than 75 per cent of Vietnam’s annual $60-billion trade is made up imports from China
S Arabia announces four more Mers deaths
28 Aug 2015
China will never accept Dalai Lama’s ‘Middle Way’: Xi
26 Aug 2015
The Dalai Lama denies seeking independence, saying he only wants genuine autonomy for Tibet, something he calls the Middle Way and which Beijing believes is merely a smokescreen for independence
UN chief appalled at IS destruction of Palmyra temple
25 Aug 2015
The art and architecture of Palmyra, standing at the crossroads of several civilizations, has been a symbol of the complexity and wealth of the Syrian identity and history
Five charts that demystify the Chinese housing market
25 Aug 2015
There are reasons to worry about the Chinese housing market, but they may not be the reasons you expect, say researchers at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Peking University who have built housing-price indices covering 120 major Chinese cities from 2003 to 2013 and analysed detailed information on mortgage borrowers
Pak insists on meeting J&K separatists as new pre-condition for talks
22 Aug 2015
Having failed to meet J&K separatists, Islamabad now insists on meeting them as a pre-condition for talks in New Delhi on Sunday and Monday
US mobilises troops as tension between two Koreas escalates
22 Aug 2015
Any war between North and South Korea, however, 'could go nuclear,' experts warn
Tsipras resigns, Greece heads for snap polls
21 Aug 2015
The radical Left wing of the Syriza party, that makes up a third of the country's MPs, is set to from a "political and social front that will be anti-austerity, democratic and patriotic"