Crude prices edged up on Monday, building on recent gains with Brent holding above $50 after Nigerian militants claimed fresh attacks on the country's oil infrastructure.

Vietnamese families living in slums along the Red River in Hanoi are using red plastic buckets and old printers to help light homes, cook meals and slash electricity costs by as much as a third.

The tourists are so scarce you can hear their footsteps clattering down the empty shopping street. Nearly a week after the deadly airport bombings, it is eerily quiet in Istanbul.

Singapore is rushing to reinvent itself as Asia's financial technology, or fintech, hub to fend off a regulatory threat to its wealth management industry and revive a sluggish economy.

The likely path after retirement preferred by most is to stay among family members, maintain a social life and relax after a life of hard work. But that was not the case for Amjad Khan Chowdhury.

Sharlin Islam is an MBA student at a leading private university in Dhaka. She finds it difficult to juggle between a day job at a local advertising firm, her evening classes and a fulltime role as the head of a joint family. Needless to say, she is pressed for time and her weekends are spent running chores. Whatever little time that is left to call her own, Sharlin spends lazing at home.

The new head of Sri Lanka's central bank Indrajit Coomaraswamy pledged Monday to uphold its credibility after allegations of insider

India may alter the list of steel items that attract a minimum import price if the country decides to continue with the protectionist measure beyond August, steel secretary Aruna Sundararajan said.

Kuwait said Sunday it plans to tap the international debt market through bond issues to finance its budget deficit after recording a first shortfall in 16 years.

New car registrations in Germany, a key indicator of demand in Europe's top economy, rose strongly in June, official data showed on Monday.

Britain will look to hire foreign trade negotiators to help it meet the challenge of striking new trade deals with countries in Europe and beyond after last month's shock decision to leave the European Union, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.

Britain will face two key challenges, inflation and recession, after Britons voted to leave the European Union, or Brexit, European Central Bank Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Sunday.

Japan's Toyota Motor Corp has recalled 3.37 million cars worldwide over possible defects involving airbags and emissions control units.

Inflation in Germany accelerated fractionally in June, buoyed by rising prices in the services sector and shallower declines in energy prices, a preliminary estimate showed on Wednesday.

Credit ratings agency Fitch forecast on Wednesday that investment in the British economy will fall 5 percent next year, two days after it downgraded Britain's credit rating after last week's vote to leave the European Union.

Access to the single market has been a key factor behind the success of the UK car industry, its trade body has said, as it reported record turnover in 2015.

Starwood Hotels on Tuesday took over management of a luxury hotel in central Havana, becoming the first big American hospitality chain with a presence on the island since the Cuban Revolution a half-century ago.

Two of China's biggest steelmakers are planning to merge, they said, as the industry faces a global glut that has hammered producers worldwide.

UK bond yields hit an all-time low on Monday while rates on German debt pushed further into negative territory as investors sought safe haven following a vote to leave the EU.

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