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Indian families scale back on gold for weddings as prices hover near highs

Tencent raises $4.6bn in dual dollar, yuan bond issuances

Brookfield bets on its Japan business to top Hong Kong and Singapore

World Cup tests Asia's appetite for costly broadcast rights

What is the sea drone that rescued US helicopter crew? Reuters

Indonesia has declared what amounts to an emergency over its embattled currency. The shock interest-rate increase this week has given the rupiah a short-term lift. Without a change in the underlying direction of government policy, it will be insufficient to revive confidence.

Controversial candidate shrugged off misconduct allegations to challenge incumbent Susan Collins in November

I hated taking exams. I’d cram and strategize and fret as I imagined trick questions, bizarre equations or scenarios in which obscure sections from my textbooks emerged as soul-wrecking conundrums. But I had it easy. My 1970s middle-school classmates and I in the Philippines had heard all about the

Europe lost the plot on online speech.

Football tournament’s structure favours randomness but history suggests a western European winner