Indonesia remains the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia and graft is getting even worse, a poll of businessmen says, dealing a blow to the president's efforts to clean up the country. The news comes as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is under mounting pressure with his vice president and finance minister facing a criminal probe into their role in ...

Telecom giant PCCW, which Tuesday announced its 2009 financial results, refused to comment on a police investigation into its chairman Richard Li's failed attempt last year to take the company private. Alex Arena, PCCW's group managing director, said Hong Kong police and the city's market watchdog had both remained silent about the ongoing probe, which began less ...

World stock markets traded in very narrow ranges Tuesday as investors took a breather a year after shares began their recovery from multiyear lows. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was down 11.06 points, or 0.2 percent, at 5,595.66 while ...

China has warned that a plan by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong to use a special election as a de facto referendum on democratic reform is a threat to stability in the former British colony. While Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, it maintains a separate political system and ...