Economy & Business
China evacuates its nationals from Vietnam
China has evacuated more than 3,000 of its citizens from Vietnam because of anti-China rioting there and is sending five ships to ...Colombia and FARC reach deal to battle drug trade
Colombia\'s government and main rebel group on Friday announced an agreement to jointly combat illicit drugs in the South American country, which ...GM to pay feds $35M fine over deadly ignition fails
General Motors was fined $35m and agreed to take part in “unprecedented oversight requirements” on Friday over its massive recall of cars ...Unions call for nationwide strike after Turkish mine disaster kills 282
Four Turkish labor unions called for a national one-day strike on Thursday in protest against the country\'s worst industrial disaster that killed ...Jill Abramson replaced as New York Times executive editor
The New York Times Co on Wednesday replaced executive editor Jill Abramson in a surprising move after less than three years in ...Anti-Beijing protests flare as tensions rise between Vietnam and China
Anti-China mobs torched up to 15 foreign-owned factories and trashed many more in southern Vietnam as anger over the recent deployment by ...Turkish coal mine explosion kills hundreds
The death toll in a mine explosion in western Turkey jumped to 201, a provincial mayor told CNN Turk news channel on ...Sea dispute dominates ASEAN summit in Myanmar
Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have expressed concern over escalating tensions in the South China Sea, ...Global Fund and Munich Re in risk management partnership
The Global Fund is further strengthening risk management in health programs that it supports worldwide under an agreement signed with Munich Re, ...China urges Philippines to release detained fishermen
The authorities in the Philippines have detained the crew of a Chinese fishing vessel in a disputed area of the South China ...