By Sophie Yu and Yew Lun Tian BEIJING At Nanchengxiang restaurants in Beijing, customers treat themselves to a

By Olivier Sorgho Zurich Insurance on Thursday reported a better-than-expected half-year operating profit, helped by its Life business

By Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT The European Central Bank is on the back foot again and this time the

By Mohi Narayan, Laura Sanicola and Ahmad Ghaddar NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON/LONDON Global refiners are raking in hefty gains, fuelled

By Casey Hall SHANGHAI In an unassuming industrial park on the outskirts of Shanghai, an unusual taste test

By Valentina Za MILAN Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo is getting closer to securing approval from Moscow to

MANILA Analog chipmaker Texas Instruments is planning to invest up to $1 billion to expand its Philippine facilities,

By Siddharth Cavale and Josephine Mason NEW YORK/LONDON Lean times faced by many U.S. and European companies may

FRANKFURT German container shipper Hapag-Lloyd on Thursday posted a net profit of 2.9 billion euros ($3.18 billion) for

By Liangping Gao, Ella Cao and Marius Zaharia BEIJING/HONG KONG Shanghai businesswoman Kate Ren might have hoped that

MUMBAI The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said it will put in place a framework to

The Czech power utility CEZ says its net profit in the first half of the year reached 22.3 billion Czech crowns, or $1 billion