More than 1,000 Thai university students rallied in Bangkok Sunday to protest government corruption and pledged to not take part in the graft that pervades much of Thai society. Students from about 90 Thai universities

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Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to compete against Google's popular YouTube whose content is deemed inappropriate by the Islamic regime, the state television reported on Sunday. The website (http://www.mehr.ir) called 'Mehr', meaning affection

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Vietnam held rare but brief protests against China in its two major cities on Sunday after Beijing demanded that Hanoi stop unilateral oil exploration in disputed waters and not harass Chinese fishing boats. China's demands

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German Finance Minster Wolfgang Schaeuble has signalled a readiness to compromise on the European Union's planned banking union and said leaders are working intensively to agree on a legal framework by Christmas, German media reported.

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Morgan Stanley Inc's head of mergers and acquisitions for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is leaving the bank, three sources said, the latest in a string of high-level banking departures from the Gulf

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Japan says it has halted beef imports from Brazil after the South American nation notified the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) of the discovery of the protein believed to cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in

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Bangladesh on Sunday invited bids from international companies to explore offshore oil and gas reserves, an official said, as the fast-growing economy seeks to meet its soaring energy demands. State energy group Petrobangla director Muhammad

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European Central Bank policymaker Joerg Asmussen said he agreed with the Bundesbank's recent pessimistic forecast of just 0.4 percent growth for the German economy next year, a newspaper reported. "The Bundesbank's estimate is realistic," he

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German opposition-led states said they will continue to block a tax deal reached by the German and Swiss governments, crushing Berlin's hopes of salvaging the agreement through mediation, a magazine reported. Last month the Bundesrat

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Lack of binding EU policy beyond 2020 and a battered carbon market has made European electricity unworthy of investment, the head of the industry body that represents the sector in Europe said. The risk is

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