NEW DELHI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - India's prime minister said a meeting of Group of 20 countries last week gave developing nations the kind of platform they sought but more work was needed to tackle the severe global downturn. Global institutions must be ...

21 Nov 2008

HONG KONG, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Asia's property markets are about to be hit by the global economic downturn with apartment prices and office rents in Hong Kong and Singapore set to skid more than 20 percent by the end of 2009, a Reuters poll on showed ...

20 Nov 2008

MANILA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Finance and central bank officials from 13 Asian nations agreed to recommend expanding an $80 billion pool of currency swaps to shield the region from the financial crisis, a Philippine official said on Friday. The official ...

19 Nov 2008

Stylised, symbolic and distilled, this Japanese company's pieces are the dance equivalent of haikus. Only, you know, much longer. Ushio Amagatsu founded his all-male company Sankai Juku in 1975. Born in 1949, he had already studied classical and ...

19 Nov 2008

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand weakened in early trade on Monday but pared some losses against the dollar as Asian shares mostly turned positive and the yen retreated, pointing to a slight easing in risk aversion. But stock ...

16 Nov 2008

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16 Nov 2008