The German government Wednesday slightly trimmed its 2015 growth forecast due to the slowdown in emerging economies, but said domestic consumption would likely more than offset the external weakness.

The Vietnamese government will sell its stakes in companies ranging from a dairy giant to an insurance firm in a move worth up to $3 billion, state media said Wednesday, boosting the communist nation's privatisation drive.

Investors poured increasing amounts of cash into startups in the third quarter, defying fears of a bubble in the tech sector, a survey showed Wednesday.

INDIAN state-owned firms may have to give half their freight business to local shippers to help rescue an industry battered by the global commodities downturn.

Nissan Motor Co has entered into an eight-year sponsorship agreement with the International Cricket Council (ICC), a company executive said, in a bid by the Japanese car maker to boost its small market share in cricket-crazy India.

Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled on Wednesday the second smartphone powered by the its own Tizen operating system, its latest bid to increase the popularity of its own software ecosystem.

US computer chip giant Intel demonstrates how its no-touch technology enables users to operate their devices with hand gestures. The

Japanese car manufacturing giant Toyota is committing to all but eliminate carbon emissions from its production processes by 2050.

As many as 850,000 small chemist shops in India will shut for a day next week to protest against a burgeoning online pharmacy industry that is attracting big money backers.

Standard Chartered's new Chief Executive Bill Winters plans to cut about 1,000 of the bank's most senior staff to reduce costs, according to a memo sent to staff, as he battles to revive the bank following a sharp drop in profits.

Finance ministers from the world's leading economies gave the green light Friday to a new plan to crack down on tax evasion by multi-national corporations which costs countries at least $100 billion a year.

Plunging nickel prices and the market woes of world mining giants have shaken the French territory of New Caledonia, a tropical archipelago in the Pacific that is hostage to the metal's fortunes.

As once-stellar growth rates start to dip, watchers of China's mammoth economy worry that it could be worse than it looks because the official figures might not be telling the whole story.

ECONOMIC growth in the European Union is too weak to allow for Ukraine to join the 28-member bloc, according to leading US economist and reformer Jeffrey Sachs.

A US-Japan agreement on autos trade as part of a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal would have its own dispute settlement mechanism, including penalties, if Japan does not open its market enough to US vehicles, a source close to the negotiations said on Friday.

WAL-MART Stores' expanding network of large distribution centers will allow it to deliver packages throughout the United States in two days, setting it up to compete more efficiently in online holiday sales, a senior executive said on Thursday.

Until they started to build micro-hydro dams, many of the indigenous people living in remote rainforests of Malaysia's Sabah state did not have access to electricity, forcing them to resort to costly ways of generating power through diesel generators.

More than 20 lawsuits have been filed in the United States accusing large banks of rigging the US Treasury bond market in a similar fashion to other recent collusion cases.

New car registrations in Germany, a key measure of demand in one of the most important sectors of Europe's top economy, rose in

In the boom times when the price of gold was soaring, Ebenezer Sam-Onuawonto had a dream job and a dollar salary many times the national average in this mining town in southwestern Ghana.