text: Tue, 3 May 2005 WN Business Broadcasts WN Asia
  Dollar Falls Against the Euro as Traders Hold Back Before Fed
  Dollar Falls Against the Euro as Traders Hold Back Before Fed...
  Morgan Stanley Denies Report on 2 Tln Yen Bid for Seibu Railway
  Morgan Stanley Denies Report on 2 Tln Yen Bid for Seibu Railway...
  Bank Debt Investment Photos Stocks
  | Indonesia has detected its first case of polio for nearly 10 years. | The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the country has now begun a program to vaccinate millions of children in the West Java region whe...
  KOLKATA: From next year, the IIT entrance test is likely to get simpler. | Concerned over the immense stress that IIT-JEE puts on thousands of students, the Union HRD ministry has set up a high-level panel to m...
  NEW DELHI: Railway minister Lalu Prasad wants the personal indulgence of Supreme Court judges on the composition of a Bench of the Patna HC to hear his petition challenging the governor's sanction for his prose...
  AHMEDABAD: Niket Patel's dreams of settling in the US might just come true, as he packs his bag for a holiday in the UK. Wondering what Britain has to do with Patel's plans to live in Uncle Sam's land? Everythi...
  CHINA opened a new round of panda diplomacy yesterday, offering a pair of the animals to Taiwan. But the gesture quickly became bogged down in a spat over whether state leaders rather than cuddly mammals should...
  INDUSTRY players will spend this weekend trying to find a way out of the crisis facing Australia's wool growers, who say they are being battered by animal liberationists and a lack of demand, innovation and mar...
  US-LED demands for Iran and North Korea to cease their nuclear weapons programs dominated the opening day of the conference on disarmament attended by 183 nations at UN headquarters in New York. | US Assistant ...
  KABUL: Investigators were still searching for the cause of a huge explosion at a warlord's secret underground arms cache in northern Afghanistan as officials said the death toll had risen to 29, with more than ...
  | MASHHAD (Agencies) � President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday opened a railway track between the center and northeast of the country, completing a line that gives Central Asian countries a shorter route to the P...
  Call for early IHF polls raises hackles Lee�s approval Md. Sporting take on Punjab Police Sorenstam seeks more history Table tennis giants reign Legend Waldner ponders retirement Soccer team may play match in Karachi: AIFF
  Tehran Times | UNITED NATIONS, New York (IRNA) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi here on Monday expressed...
  Tehran Times | BEIJING (BBC) - China has announced a series of goodwill gestures towards Taiwan, including the gi...
  Tehran Times | SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence has captured the movement of heavy equipment in North Korea th...
  Asia Times By Vickey Lalwani | MUMBAI - Lara Dutta's latest film, Kaal, has just hit the big screen, and not a ...
  Asia Times By George Zhibin Gu | Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to h...
  Asia Times By Amir Mir | KARACHI - The American commander of the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, Lieute...
  Illegal insurance business rampant in China
  Asia Times BEIJING - China's battle against illegal sales of insurance policies may take longer than anticipate...
  NSTP China offered a series of goodwill gestures to Taiwan including the symbolic gift of two giant panda...
  Bloomberg May 3 (Bloomberg) -- The government of Afghanistan plans to build its first international railway, l...
  Bloomberg May 3 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell against the euro as traders were reluctant to increase bets on ...
  Bloomberg May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley, the world's biggest securities firm by market value, denied...
  Bloomberg May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of Asian copper and gold miners such as BHP Billiton and Newcrest Mining...
  HSBC's Eldon Says No `Compelling' Reason to Revalue China Yuan
  Bloomberg May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Chairman David Eldon said there is ``no c...
  Off the sheep's back Yuan not the cause of US trade gap The late developers' trek Illegal insurance business rampant in China
  How panda diplomacy bamboozled the leader of Taiwan Iran concerned about slow pace, lack of progress in nuclear talks: Kharrazi China offers Taiwan giant pandas China tries panda diplomacy with Taiwan as Lien wraps up visit