Archive for the December 29, 2016
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Korean Air said Wednesday it would let its crew use stun guns more aggressively and put more male staff aboard flights to clamp down on violence, after an incident involving an unruly passenger. South Korea's
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Japan's factory output rose in November and manufacturers expect to ramp up production in coming months, data showed on Wednesday, underscoring the central bank's view that a pick-up in global demand will underpin a steady
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Kuwait is set to begin importing up to 200 million cubic feet of gas daily from neighbouring Iraq, oil ministers from the two Arab nations said after talks on Wednesday. Cited by Kuwait News Agency
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British energy giant BP announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a network of Australian petrol stations from supermarket chain Woolworths for US $1.3 billion (1.2 billion euros). BP said in a statement that
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Chinese customs seized over three tonnes of pangolin scales, state media said, in the country's biggest-ever smuggling case involving the animal parts. Shanghai Customs found around 3.1 tonnes of pangolin scales mixed in with a
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China's foreign exchange regulator said on Wednesday it busted illegal transactions totalling $2.7 billion in Shanghai in co-operation with the police in 2016, and suspended three unnamed banks involved from selling foreign currency. State Administration
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Profits at China's state-owned firms rose 2.8 percent in the first eleven months of 2016 from a year earlier, aided by a raw material price rally and a construction boom, the Ministry of Finance said
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Profits at China's state-owned firms rose 2.8 percent in the first eleven months of 2016 from a year earlier, aided by a raw material price rally and a construction boom, the Ministry of Finance said
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Major Gulf stock markets were mixed in quiet trade on Wednesday although some second-tier Saudi petrochemical stocks rose sharply after oil prices climbed overnight. The main Saudi index traded higher for much of the day
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Australian shares closed at their highest in nearly 17 months on Wednesday, resuming their post-Trump rally after losses in the previous session as basic materials stocks led broad-based gains. The S&P/ASX 200 index ended 1
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