Australia’s fourth largest bank, Westpac, announced a 10 percent rise in interim cash net profit on Thursday and assured the market it was well positioned to ride...

The Australian share market has opened the week two per cent down today, led by financial companies, after US stocks fell on Friday on concerns the world’s...

Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda, left, addresses an election campaign rally in Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal, in this March 12, 2008...