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Asia's richest man "disappointed" by Hong Kong democracy veto, but business as usual HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, said on Tuesday he was "very disappointed" by Hong Kong's failure to pass a China-backed electoral blueprint that would have granted a one-man one-vote in...

LONDON (Reuters) - A group of British business leaders and entrepreneurs are preparing to launch a campaign for Britain to leave the European Union at a planned membership referendum, a major donor to the UK Independence Party said.<img width='1' height='1'...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp moved into damage control mode on Friday after its new communications chief, an American and its first senior woman executive, was arrested on suspicion of illegally bringing pain killers into Japan just two months after her high-profile appointment.<img...

BULAWYO, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mikah Mbewe performed dismally in his high school examinations and decided the next best thing to make sure he could find a good job was to get a driver’s license.<img width='1' height='1'...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is unlikely to introduce new sanctions in retaliation for EU decisions, Russian Economy Minister Alexei Uluykayev said on Thursday, adding that Moscow was most likely to extend a food embargo.<img width='1' height='1'...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's deputy parliamentary speaker Hung Hsiu-chu on Wednesday moved a step closer to securing the ruling Kuomintang's (KMT) nomination for next year's presidential election after her bid won the approval of top party officials.<img width='1' height='1'...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A former senior executive at the state-run China Southern Power Grid has been arrested for suspected bribery, the state prosecutor said on Tuesday, the latest official to fall victim to the government's battle against graft.<img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.<img width='1' height='1'...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Bahrain's foreign minister summoned the Iraqi ambassador to the country on Wednesday to hand him an official letter of protest over a banned Shi'ite group that the kingdom said received training in Iraq.<img width='1' height='1'...

SOFIA (Reuters) - The U.S. government contractors caught in a blast at a firing range in Bulgaria last week were working on a U.S. military program to train and equip moderate rebels in Syria, the U.S. embassy in Sofia said on Wednesday.<img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 170 million youth are trapped in child labor, deprived of education and facing a life without decent jobs, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said on Wednesday.<img width='1' height='1'...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Egypt summoned the U.S. ambassador in Cairo to show displeasure at Muslim Brotherhood figures coming to Washington for a private conference, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.<img width='1' height='1'...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Monday it had recalled its ambassador to Brazil for consultation, after the Latin American country's Senate passed legislation recognizing the massacre of Armenians during World War One in Turkey as genocide.<img width='1' height='1'...

SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - The rickety internet huts have fallen silent in the crowded camps of displaced Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar, no one comes anymore to bargain for the release of loved ones being held for ransom in Thailand and Malaysia.<img width='1' height='1'...

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Thai student Pornthep Pornsiricherd was a child, his family had a housemaid from Myanmar whom they treated as one of the family.<img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654198/s/46f7fe8a/sc/33/mf.gif' border='0'/><br...

HARARE (Reuters) - Former vice president Joice Mujuru has apologized to Zimbabwe's people for her role in President Robert Mugabe's government, in a move seen by allies as a step toward challenging him for power.<img width='1' height='1'...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's draft National Security Law is excessively broad and would isolate the country from crucial technologies, a European business lobby said on Wednesday, in the latest backlash from foreign industry over a suite of pending Chinese regulations.<img width='1' height='1'...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of Mexican teachers protested on the streets of Mexico City on Monday against a crucial part of President Enrique Pena Nieto's education reform, sensing that government support for it was crumbling.<img width='1' height='1'...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian fuel marketers agreed to resume distribution on Monday after weeks of disruption led to chronic fuel shortages, bringing phone companies, banks and airlines to a standstill days before the inauguration of the country's new president.<img width='1' height='1'...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Thailand's army seized power in a bloodless coup, much of the business establishment quietly cheered them on. A year on, the captains of Thai industry remain firmly behind the junta, despite a lackluster economy and a delayed return to democracy.<img width='1' height='1'...