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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's service sector contracted for a third straight month in December as the volume of new orders shrank, while business confidence fell to its lowest level in more than a year,...

By Sudarshan Varadhan, A. Ananthalakshmi and Ahmed Farhatha SRIPERUMBUDUR, India (Reuters) - For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets a...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday signed a 5.024 trillion pesos ($98.45 billion) budget for next year, the Southeast Asian country's largest ever, as it aims to susta...

By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Annette Clayton is well aware of how few women there are in the energy industry. She is using her power as one of the most senior females in the field to cha...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Thursday to extend several consecutive days of gains, buoyed by data showing U.S. fuel demand holding up well despite soaring Omicron coronavirus infections. B...

By Chen Lin SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's economic growth is expected to have moderated in the fourth quarter, partly hurt by uncertainty caused by the Omicron COVID-19 variant and analysts say th...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shares of China Evergrande Group tumbled in opening trades in Asia after a report that it did not pay offshore coupons due on Tuesday. Evergrande, whose $19 billion in internatio...

By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - The dollar and yen were at the low end of their recent ranges in thin holiday trading on Thursday, having fallen overnight as investors favoured riskier currencies a...

By Scott Murdoch and Kane Wu (Reuters) -SenseTime Group shares jumped as much as 23% from their initial public offering (IPO) price as they debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Thursday. The Chi...

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets got off to a listless start on Thursday as the spread of Omicron clouded what is the last trading day of the year for many exchanges around the glo...