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• Most Asian markets rise in Monday trading
Elsewhere in Asia, Indonesia's key index plummeted more than 6 percent Monday after the lifting of a trading suspension, imposed last Wednesday amid a freefall in share prices. Investors seemed little encouraged by government measures to free up ...
• Asia stocks off 5 percent as global crisis spirals
HONG KONG - Asian stocks dropped by around 5 percent on Monday, led by exporters, and the yen surged to a 2-year high against the euro as investors doubted a scattered European response to the financial crisis and a $700 billion U.S. bank bailout ...
• Half of mammals are in decline, study finds
The situation is particularly serious for land mammals in Asia, through the combined effects of overharvesting and habitat loss," the experts wrote in their study, "and for marine species, victims of our increasingly intensive use of the oceans ...
• World markets follow huge Wall Street losses
The sluggishness in the credit markets that triggered much of the heavy selling in markets around the world since mid-September appeared little changed even after a string of interest rate cuts by central banks in the United States, Europe and Asia ...
• Maldives gears up for first democratic election
MALE, Maldives - To supporters, President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom is a hero who turned a poor nation of fishermen into a tourist paradise and the economic success story of South Asia. Detractors accuse him of ruling the Maldives as a dictator, violently ...