Moody's downgraded the credit rating of embattled electronics giant Toshiba on Monday days after the conglomerate announced deep mid-year operating losses late last week.

The long-awaited text of the landmark trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is released to the public for the first time.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday launch a programme to lure tonnes of gold from households into the banking system, but low returns and concerns over tax authorities hounding depositors may hinder a scheme aimed at cutting imports.

South Korea's Hyundai Motor launched Wednesday a high-end brand named after its Genesis line of vehicles as it looks to expand its presence in the fast-growing luxury auto market.

CHINA has set a deadline of this year to link trading between the Shenzhen stock exchange and the Hong Kong market, the central bank chief said, following a similar connection with the Shanghai bourse.

British retailer Marks & Spencer showed that efforts to boost profitability in its troubled clothing business are starting to pay off even though sales fell again in the latest quarter.

More than 40 percent of goods sold online in China last year were either counterfeits or of bad quality, the official Xinhua news agency said, illustrating the extent of a problem that has bogged down the fast-growing online sector.

Nestle India Ltd plans to commence the sale of popular Maggi noodles within this month, after court-mandated tests at three laboratories cleared all the samples with lead much below permissible levels, the company said on Wednesday.

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund policymakers are expected to decide this month whether to add China's yuan to the Fund's benchmark currency basket after a campaign by Beijing for inclusion.

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Twenty years after pioneering the virtual bookstore, Amazon Tuesday went brick-and-mortar.

Specialty medicines for which pharmaceutical companies demand high prices are straining wealthy nations' health budgets, the OECD said on Wednesday, with drugs accounting for some 20 percent of all health spending.

Canada will provide up to $500 million a year in trade financing to help Tata Sons Ltd invest in Canada and also to aid Canadian firms doing business with the company abroad, Ottawa said on Wednesday.

Google is planning to expand its presence in China, Eric Schmidt, chairman of the search giant's holding company, has said.

Bhutan has come up with a new way to pave its roads: waste plastic. As part of efforts to curb the use of fossil fuels and deal with growing amounts of plastic waste, the country plans to mix used plastic bottles and other waste plastic with bitumen to blacktop

Japan's Nissan on Monday raised its full-year forecasts, citing new model rollouts along with upbeat sales in North America and Europe that offset weakness in the home market.

Visa Inc said on Monday it would acquire former subsidiary Visa Europe for 16.5 billion euros ($18.19 billion), with the potential for an additional payment of up to 4.7 billion euros.

HSBC saw pre-tax profit surge 32 percent year-on-year in the third quarter on the back of lower fines, the banking giant announced Monday, but revenue dropped in the wake of Asian market volatility.

Activity in China's colossal factory sector shrank in October as global demand stuttered, reinforcing the case for more stimulus and questioning whether the Federal Reserve can be confident enough to raise US interest rates this year.

China on Monday raised the daily reference rate for its yuan currency by the largest margin in a decade, officials and reports said, just three months after a surprise devaluation sent shockwaves through global markets.