WASHINGTON: US regulators on Wednesday fined banking giant JPMorgan Chase $100 million for manipulating trade in the "London whale" trading debacle. The US...
WASHINGTON: US regulators on Wednesday fined banking giant JPMorgan Chase $100 million for manipulating trade in the "London whale" trading debacle. The US...
TAIPEI: Apple has told two companies assembling its new lower-cost iPhone 5C that it is cutting orders for the fourth quarter, raising concerns...
SINGAPORE: China is seeking about 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Iraq in 2014, the Middle Eastern nation's oil minister...
BEIJING: Four people died after an avalanche hit a foreign tour group camping on the slopes of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak,...
A man crosses a damaged bridge using a rope and a bamboo on the popular tourist island of Bohol, central Philippines on October...
BEIJING: A new human H7N9 bird flu case has been confirmed in east China's Zhejiang Province, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. It...
YANGON: Western governments have warned travellers to exercise extreme caution in Myanmar after a series of minor bomb blasts, including one at an...
BEIRUT: A powerful blast ripped through a pickup truck in the southern province of Daraa in Syria early Wednesday, killing 21 people including...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares rose 0.18 percent by the close Wednesday as investors closely monitored Washington's budget deadlock ahead of a crucial deadline for...
CHACHAPA: An explosion at a natural gas plant in Mexico killed four people and left three injured, officials said. Storage tanks at the...
TOKYO: A Japanese doctor infected with tuberculosis examined more than 600 patients without wearing a mask, an official said Wednesday. The doctor, who...
TAIPEI: Two crew members and a weather station employee were killed Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into a mountain in central Taiwan, officials...
SEOUL: Eight crew members of a Chinese-owned cargo ship died after their vessel sank in rough seas off the South Korean harbour of...
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo said Tuesday its quarterly profit slipped from the same period a year ago, when its coffers were swelled by the...
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter Inc will list on the New York Stock Exchange, a marquee IPO win that deals a blow to the tech-heavy...
TOKYO: Eight people were killed and over 30 missing, with nearly 20,000 people ordered to evacuate and hundreds of flights cancelled as Typhoon...
Pilgrims arrive to cast seven pebbles at a pillar that symbolises Satan during the third day of the Haj, in Mina, near the...
BEIRUT: Syrian air force jets and helicopters bombed rebel-held districts across the country yesterday, the first day of the festival of Eid Al...