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GM Daewoo Auto and Technology has decided to recall 16,379 units of its Matiz Creative mini-car because of defects in their airbags or windshield wipers, government officials said on Sunday. The South Korean unit of US carmaker General Motors said...

Philippine police commandos rescued a kidnapped Indian businessman Sunday and killed six of his suspected abductors in two gunbattles near Manila, officials said.   Heavily armed police, backed by military intelligence agents, raided the kidnappers’ hide-out in Calumpit township in...

The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, which shed 11.6 percent of its capitalisation last week, opened up 3.9 percent and gained further ground in early trade to hit 2,686.47 points, up 4.4 percent, by mid-morning. Dubai's DFM index, which dropped 12.5...

The Japanese won six of the eight heats in the opening session, with Takuro Osaki setting a Games record of 1min 01.99secs in the men's 100m breaststroke, before being bettered by compatriot Ryo Tateishi in the next race. Tateishi touched...

Taobao's growing popularity has captured the imagination of students like Ge, but also giants like Dell, Uniqlo, Procter and Gamble, and Chinese firms seeking to step from the shadows after years of manufacturing for US and European labels. The e-commerce...

With the police investigation at a standstill, Julitta and Jan Rozycki are hoping a $100,000 reward, posted on the two-year anniversary of their son's death, will encourage people to come forward. December 6, 2007, when he was struck by a...

The Reserve Bank of Fiji (RBF) has re-delegated control of foreign exchange transactions to commercial banks and foreign exchange dealers ending the control it took of most transactions in April to protect sagging foreign exchange levels. As part of the...

ACC's higher than forecast investment return has exposed the Government's "scaremongering" about the corporation's financial situation, Labour leader Phil Goff says. Levies are going to be raised and some entitlements cut because the Government says ACC isn't in a viable...

Gold, which has repeatedly hit record nominal peaks, is a plausible candidate. Like a dot-com stock, it seems to lack any valuation constraints...The credit crunch has shown that emerging markets have not only become the main drivers of global growth...

It was the kind of cranky behaviour she would have expected from her bigger croc, Getcha. "He's named Getcha because if you take the tape off his mouth he'll get ya. He's over two-metres long and double Snappy's body mass,"...