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China’s Communist Party fired a vice chairman of the economic planning agency who is suspected of “severe disciplinary violations,” after a Chinese journalist posted allegations that he had improper business dealings.
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Nawaz Sharif was headed for a record third term as prime minister of Pakistan as unofficial results from a landmark election gave him the convincing win he sought to tackle a slumping economy and growing militancy.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s election win without the bulk of ethnic Chinese voters is set to pose the biggest test yet for the pro-Malay affirmative action policies instituted by his father more than three decades ago.
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Global iron ore supplies will expand faster than demand over the long term, lowering prices and reducing volatility of the raw material used to make steel, according to BHP Billiton Ltd., the largest mining company.
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Judging by their giddy rally today, markets in Malaysia are beyond relieved that the country’s general elections are over. A win for the incumbent Barisan Nasional coalition, whose main party has led Malaysia since independence, appeared to promise continuity and stability. Prime Minister Najib Razak adopted a humble tone after the bitterly fought campaign, calling for “national reconciliation.”
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Malaysian stocks fell the most in almost three months as price swings in the nation’s benchmark index jumped before national elections on May 5.
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Malaysia’s opposition coalition led by Anwar Ibrahim may ask Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to renegotiate terms on a $3 billion bond placement should it win the election this weekend.
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The grandson of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, a Duke University law school graduate who later worked for U.S. law firm White & Case LLP, was named deputy head of a county in southern China, the People’s Daily website said.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s ruling coalition is “almost evenly tied” with the opposition alliance ahead of a May 5 election, according to an opinion survey released today.
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During the Cold War, scientists working at the laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology produced ideas and inventions, such as distant early- warning radar and satellite-tracking systems, designed to help the U.S. prevail over the Soviet Union.
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